Birth Name: Betty Joan Perske Date of Birth: September 16, 1924 Birth Place: New York City, New York, United States Date of Death: August 12, 2014 Place of Death: New York City, New York Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish
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I’m Ashkenazi myself... this is fascinating stuff. I would bet that a lot of groups of people have had similar moments in their history when there were population bottlenecks.
Fortunately for us, 80% of Jewish immigrants to the US are Ashkenazi.(This data is from the book 'Bell Curve')
So the present Ashkenazis are all descended from 350 people who lived at a period between 1200 and 1400.
This is really odd, because there were a lot more Jews than that running around Europe in earlier years. For instance, the 1st Crusaders slaughtered thousands of Jews in the Rhineland on their way to Jerusalem.
I’m trying to think of a disaster between 110 and 1400 that could have reduced the population so drastically.
I would suspect that the current existing high rate of genetic-based disorders among Ashkenazi Jews derives of course from such disorders’ presence in the very small “founding group” of a mere 350 people, but also due to a large amount of inbreeding (not breeding extensively outside the group) that has continued among them.
If there is one thing that human survival has appreciated it is genetic diversity, which is - genetic diversity - what many life’s species have succeeded with, for genetic diversity provides a greater chance of adapting to fringe conditions and/or new conditions.
Well we know now Hannibal Lecter isn’t a Sephardi Jew.
Birth Name: Betty Joan Perske Date of Birth: September 16, 1924 Birth Place: New York City, New York, United States Date of Death: August 12, 2014 Place of Death: New York City, New York Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish
I’ve read that the Pashtuns of Afghanistan may be descendents of the Israelis carried away into captivity when the Northern Kingdom was overthrown. Maybe also some from the Southern kingdom (Judea).
I believe Kipling mentioned this.
So then I could understand this, unless I couldn't.
Ping for genetics.
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The Lord God promised there would always be a remnant.
Hard to believe.
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Last I heard it was from four women, of which I am skeptical. If for no reason than the four women had mothers and grandmothers. Which in those days meant more women. Now am I to believe 346 men serviced four women.
Give me a break. The original Jewish population going down to Egypt numbered 70 souls coming from the loins of Jacob, and left numbering 600,000-and-change males over the age of 20. Everybody comes from fewer ancestors than their present population. And they come to that conclusion from a sample of 128?
Now, as to the four females, that’s pretty straightforward. Moshe Kapuchnik marries a hot girl and they have 10 daughters. All the newly-exiled boys in town marry a Kapuchnik girl, and have more daughters and sons, the former of whom inherit the hot-girl gene from mommy and pass it on to the female descendants of themselves and the cousin that they marry. Eventually, their genes are mixed in with the entire population and becomes the main brand name, because hot girls are more desirable than homely ones.
A model based on 128 subjects is garbage.
But to get Chomsky and Soros into the title of the article is a (sinister) joke, I'd presume. I'd say that becoming a leftist radical is generally caused more by environmental factors than genetics.