To: Tax-chick
If they had a genetic defect of the nervous system, maybe that cut down the number of surviving offspring for the whole extended clan. True, it might, but that's still a very small number. I have one set of ancestors who had more than that many descendents by the time they died.
18 posted on
01/29/2007 8:33:56 AM PST by
twigs
To: twigs; Lurking in Kansas
Maybe 299 is all the relatives the U of Mn could locate, or all that were willing to participate in the study.
Did they contact you, Lurking in Kansas?
22 posted on
01/29/2007 8:44:01 AM PST by
Tax-chick
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