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Oh that’s been going on far longer than that.
Humans chief survival skill isn’t just our ability to adapt to our environment but also our ability to adapt our environment to benefit ourselves and that has always caused other species unable to adapt to humans to go extinct.
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With a bewildering array of 15-20 species of paleohumans spawned in Africa, there is undoubtedly decades of work left to do in sorting out hominid evolution, let alone clarifying the common ancestors linking us to the great apes.
I did learn recently that Professor JRR Tolkien has been vindicated and proven correct. Hobbits were discovered in Indonesia!
Origins of Indonesian hobbits finally revealed
The most comprehensive study on the bones of Homo floresiensis, a species of tiny human discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, has found that they most likely evolved from an ancestor in Africa and not from Homo erectus as has been widely believed.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-04-indone...ealed.html#jCp
Aimée (02-18-2019), ThatOwlWoman (02-18-2019)
Now, I actually kind of feel bad for mercilessly mocking Mitt Romney as being the whitest white man in presidential history.
All of my DNA is basically almost sub-arctic, almost none of it from south of latitude 50 degrees north, skin a pasty, translucent white, and abominable on the dance floor, an absolute menace. I hate to admit it, but I am pretty sure Willard Mittens Romney would totally smoke me on the dance floor!
ThatOwlWoman (02-18-2019)
According to anecestry DNA, at seven generations back, less than 1% of your DNA is likely to have come from any given ancestor.
That is a possible explanation for why there were not positive detections for Nordic Swede, or Central Asian on my test. I thought historical mingling of the Swedish Varangians with the native Slavic tribes of White Russia/Ukraine/European Russia - and the purported connection of Tatars with Russian Cossacks might register on the DNA test. But those are historical events from the 11th through 14 centuries - and that would be at least 15 to 20 generations back. I presume that no DNA test is going to register genetic data from a Swedish Varangian from 20 generations ago.
On a sidebar, I totally blew it not taking the Neaderthal test, but I was able to track down some factoids about our low-browed, knuckle-dragging cousins:
As our modern human ancestors migrated through Eurasia, they encountered the Neanderthals and interbred. Because of this, a small amount of Neanderthal DNA was introduced into the modern human gene pool.
Everyone living outside of Africa today has a small amount of Neanderthal in them, carried as a living relic of these ancient encounters. A team of scientists comparing the full genomes of the two species concluded that most Europeans and Asians have approximately 2 percent Neanderthal DNA. Indigenous sub-Saharan Africans have none, or very little Neanderthal DNA because their ancestors did not migrate through Eurasia.
https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/neanderthal/
Aimée (02-18-2019)
USFREEDOM911 (02-19-2019)
History is nothing but one group fighting another group, then intermarrying. (I would guess the Victors fucking the Women of the Defeated)
"Once Used as Sex Slaves by ISIS, These Yazidi Women Are Rebuilding Their Lives"
"Aveen, along with nearly 7,000 Yazidi women and children, were captured by ISIS fighters in the summer of 2014, according to U.N. investigators. Many of the women were turned into sex slaves for the militants."
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/is...ilding-n801226
The premise of the mitochondrial Eve is sometimes mistakenly interpreted to mean that all modern humans can trace back a direct unbroken line back to one female. Obviously not true, but is seems unequivocal that all modern humans come from a relatively small population of homo sapiens in ancestral Africa.
I am not sure how much interest other people have for knowing about their heritage and their ancestors. Obviously, ancestor worship is a big part of some cultures, vastly moreso that in America. I myself was not that interested until I got older. Standing on the grounds of my ancestral village in Byelorussia electrified me. 500 years of family history maintained by archival records and oral tradition was a precious gift I did not fully appreciate until I walked on same the grounds my ancestors did when they were in the service of the Rus princes of the 14th century. My next mission is the Don River region, and probe my maternal line connection to Don River Cossacks.
Jack (02-20-2019)
It seems the more you get involved in the research ... the MORE you get involved. It could be a Curse.
You know, at 7 generations back, you literally have 64 'families' to sift through.
I went back to the early 1700s and found all these Quakers, each having 10 kids, and then finding they would all marry each other. The same thing happened in New England in the 1600s with these other early settlers, large families, and same surnames inter-marrying. THEN ... finding so many 'DNA Matches' from these same early arrivals. It's interesting and a fun pastime, but you have to draw a line somewhere or you will be totally consumed.
My cousin Marina spent three years researching in the national archives in Saint Petersburg, spent countless hours interviewing people, and wrote an 800 page book on five centuries of our family history. So there is no question, it can become an obsession with some people. I would not have the energy or the time to do what Marina did. Although I do consider her work a precious gift.
I frankly would get totally bored with just a family tree - names on a sheet of paper, linked in linear, branching patterns.
A total snooze fest to me.
What interests me is not just knowing who these people were, but what the world they lived in was like. The broader historical, social, and cultural context that bound them to their times - and in some small way, to me. That is why I make it an effort to understand the geography, history, and culture through the centuries in the Medieval Kievan Rus principalities, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Imperial Russian Empire, and the Don River Cossack Host. That is where the real action is at, man!
My Grandmother left me a 'written narrative' of the ancestors. Coming across the Plains, 'naked Indians', going across the Isthmus of Panama, being a Cook in a Mining Camp in California. I agree, just Dates are pretty mundane. I appreciate the effort she put into the Narrative, ... women dying in childbirth, children dying of Cholera, men going to war and never seen again.
(I haven't paid the extra money to go 'International'. I'm good at stopping here in Los Estados Unidos)
Extra points to you for even being aware of Kievan Rus.
What most Americans know about Russia comes out of Hollywood - or out of the mouths of ill-informed politicians. I actually enjoyed the preposterous movie "Red Dawn" but I guarantee you there were some barely educated wingnuts who thought it was a reasonable depiction of reality. On a similar tangent, I thought Bedtime for Bonzo's "evil empire" caricature was an insult and a disservice to thinking, sentient people everywhere.
Wolverines!
Jack (02-20-2019)
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