[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Pharmboy.

...a "bottleneck" of just 350 individuals, dating back to between 600 and 800 years ago...Researchers analyzed the genomes of 128 Ashkenazi Jews...

128 in the study? Gosh, what a surprising result. Also, the real bottleneck was in the 20th century, The Holocaust. One of the SS leaders said that Polish Jewry was the "genetic powerhouse" of European Jewry, and getting rid of it was the priority.

[1010RD]

What about the First Holocaust starting at the Great Revolt through Bar Kokhba’s? That had to end whole bloodlines either by massacre or female slavery.

[ApplegateRanch]

That 128 must be a very inbred group.

Every person has two ancestors; and 600-800 years ago is roughly 30 generations. Those 128 should have had 2^30, or 1,073,741,824, discrete ancestors living at that time; 350 is a branchless family tree. *<];-’)

[SunkenCiv]

Some BS from the FRchives:

• Human populations are tightly interwoven The most recent common ancestor of all humanity lived just a few thousand years ago, according to a computer model of our family tree. Researchers have calculated that the mystery person, from whom everyone alive today is directly descended, probably lived around 1,500 BC in eastern Asia...

some non-BS:

• Our Species Mated With Other Human Species, Study Says [2002]
• Ancient Humans Had Sex With A Mystery Species (Not Neanderthals Or Denisovans) [2013]
• Europeans drawn from three 'tribes' [2014]
• Europeans drawn from three 'tribes' [2014]
• Europeans descended from three ancient tribes [2014]
• Europeans drawn from three ancient 'tribes' [2014]
• Ancient DNA shows earliest European genomes weathered the Ice Age [2014]
• Ancient and Modern Europeans Have Surprising Genetic Connection [2014]
• Human Ancestors Went Out Of Africa And Then Came Back... [1998] [2007]
• Human Ancestor Preserved in Stone [2007]
• Most Ancient Case Of Tuberculosis Found [2007]
• Humans Migrated Out Of Africa, Then Some Went Back, Study Says [2006]
• Did Early Humans First Arise in Asia, Not Africa? [2005]
• Evidence for the Orangutan Relationship [2005]
• Infectious Evolution: Ancient Virus Hit Apes, Not Our Ancestors, In The Genes [2005]

and an interesting sidebar:

The Scars of Evolution:
What Our Bodies Tell Us
About Human Origins
by Elaine Morgan

"The most remarkable aspect of Todaro's discovery emerged when he examined Homo Sapiens for the 'baboon marker'. It was not there... Todaro drew one firm conclusion. 'The ancestors of man did not develop in a geographical area where they would have been in contact with the baboon. I would argue that the data we are presenting imply a non-African origin of man millions of years ago.'"