[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

It's a matter of mathematics. A blood line either dies out after a few generations, or it will spread geometrically. After a period of 2000 years, every single person on Earth will be a descendant of any blood line that has not expired.

So can we close that particular moronic argument, please?'

So George Bush descended from the Zulus, and Colin Powell from the Teutons. Gee thanks, I woulda never figured it out without your help.

[mutley]

So George Bush descended from the Zulus, and Colin Powell from the Teutons. Gee thanks, I woulda never figured it out without your help.

I find it quite remarkable, that anyone alive at this very moment, can claim a lineage, not just from the beginning of humanity, but from the beginning of life...period. All the way back to the first cellular organism... However that happened.

[agarrett]

So George Bush descended from the Zulus, and Colin Powell from the Teutons. Gee thanks, I woulda never figured it out without your help.

  That's correct, and you're welcome.

  Should you be sarcastic, I point you to the following papers:

Unpublished paper by Dr. Rohde of MIT

NAS Paper by Dr. Ohno (abstract only online)

  Hope that satisfies your interest in the subject. If not, please show your math,

Drew Garrett

[blam]

This is my YDNA (R1b) map and is the same as 90% of the Irish and 68% of all other Europeans.

See the 'spur' just above M45...those are the R2 line that boggied out to Asia. The R1 (R1a & R1b) are European lines.