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This diagram works for most people, but not for folks with Down's Syndrome and a few other conditions. F is for father, M for mother; each of us has up to 64 great-great-great-great-grandcestors; no more than 46 of them has had even one chromosome pair reach you; even with the occasional crossing stream, there's no more than 46, and with crossing streams, could be less.

For those who don't know, this doesn't mean the other 18 (and all of their ancestors, plus half of the ancestors of the 46) are not your ancestors -- DUH! IOW, just because the chromosomes don't make it through, doesn't mean that Oetzi (for example) has no living descendants.
F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M
F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M
F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M
F M F M F M F M
F M F M
F M
YOU

29 posted on 07/09/2010 9:32:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: SunkenCiv

Whatg about what they used to call “throw backs...

My mother had grey/green eyes and so did most of her siblings...my father had blue eyes and so did most of his siblings and his parents...

my brother has blue eyes as do his children, one sister green eyes and brown eyed chidren though their father has blue eyes...

my other sister and I have brown eyes which my mother sid was a “throw back” and that she had an aunt with brown eyes..

I have a brown eyed child ..

and a blue eyed child with blue eyed children..

If some chromosome was missing in me, it managed to find its way hiome...

I believe what you are trying to say is that the chromosome was dormant and not missing...

If you knew the arguments I had from stupid people who told me my son could notpossibly be my own off spring because of his blue eyes...


34 posted on 07/09/2010 9:47:21 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: SunkenCiv
"...just because the chromosomes don't make it through, doesn't mean that Oetzi (for example) has no living descendants."

Thomas Jefferson and Oetzi were both haplogroup 'K'. (just saying....)

35 posted on 07/09/2010 9:47:48 PM PDT by blam
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To: SunkenCiv

I also got my 5’8” fathers “shortness” while my 6 foot brother and my son got Moms tall genes...

My mother and her sisters were at least was 5’ 6” which was tallish for women born 100 years ago and their brothers were mostly 6 foot...

most of the sons are around 6 foot...

For my 5’2” and my sisters 5 foot, the tall gene was not predominate...

But some of my long legged grandchildren will play basketball...


37 posted on 07/09/2010 10:05:07 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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