12-06-2007, 11:06 PM
Henk wrote:-
...actually you can, to a degree at least, as I mentioned in my first post.
Professor Bryan Sykes , a world authority on human DNA examined the famous "Ice Man" in 1994 and was able to trace some of his descendants living in England!
He went on to establish that virtually all modern Europeans are descended from just seven ice age women - all of us are descended from one or other of these. He wrote a book called "The Seven Daughters of Eve"......
How it is possible, is that Mytochondrial DNA passes intact from mother to daughter....so your mother's DNA can be tracked through her mother and so on...
Now, there are many on-line labs who will, fairly inexpensively, and from a swab inside your cheek, tell you all about your remote matriarchal ancestors....and there is now a similar test fror patri-linear ancestors too....
Quote:The question remains... How can we or anyonme for that patter find out what genetical lineage we have... ?
since in my views only in very remote and secluded areas geneticists have found proof of a continuation more than a few thousand years old...
...actually you can, to a degree at least, as I mentioned in my first post.
Professor Bryan Sykes , a world authority on human DNA examined the famous "Ice Man" in 1994 and was able to trace some of his descendants living in England!
He went on to establish that virtually all modern Europeans are descended from just seven ice age women - all of us are descended from one or other of these. He wrote a book called "The Seven Daughters of Eve"......
How it is possible, is that Mytochondrial DNA passes intact from mother to daughter....so your mother's DNA can be tracked through her mother and so on...
Now, there are many on-line labs who will, fairly inexpensively, and from a swab inside your cheek, tell you all about your remote matriarchal ancestors....and there is now a similar test fror patri-linear ancestors too....
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
