What do you get when you plot the genetic fingerprints of more than
1000 Europeans on a grid? An image that looks surprisingly like a map
of Europe. The findings reveal that our DNA contains a sort of global
positioning system, which researchers can use to pinpoint where in the
world both we and our relatives came from…."I couldn’t believe the picture was so clear," says Carlos
Bustamante, senior author and statistical geneticist at Cornell
University. "I, for one, fell off my chair." Italy and Spain clearly
had their own cluster of genetically similar individuals, for example,
and there were even distinctions between French-, German-, and Italian-
speaking populations within Switzerland.The results make sense,
says Bustamante. Because people in a region are more likely to marry
and mate with each other–a factor that may be largely due to shared
language–that gene pool will evolve as a separate cluster that
corresponds to a place on the globe, he explains. "You don’t randomly
mate within Europe. … If you live in Strait of Gibraltar, you’re more
likely to marry someone in Spain versus someone in Moscow."
That’s Science reporting on a new paper, Genes Mirror Geography with Europe, in Nature.
Submitted my and a daughter’s DNA samples to the National Geographic genome project and was not surprised to see that all of both of our ancestors (I’m a Celtic-German-Jewish mutt and my daughter’s mother is Chinese) are originally from Africa, with different legs after the journey out of Africa.
https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/
We should do a lot with this now, I bet it won’t be true for very long. We are all becoming mutts (which is not at all a bad thing).
but but but isn’t race a social construction??
Just you wait, everything that gnxp and sailer have been saying is going to swoop down in the middle of modern discourse over the next five years. Will make all this to and fro over palin and Obama nothing by comparison.
IQ and the DNA of nations…coming soon.
I am interested in the slight contrast with this map here http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/306-the-genetic-map-of-europe/ .
Especially in light of the lack of overlap between England and Germany, whilst still overlapping with Ireland, implying Anglo saxon conquest was merely linguistic, and not genetic.
Still, it is a slight qualification, since Britain remains distinct. Perhaps both language and genetics are a function of geography rather than it mainly being the latter being a function of the former.
people in a region are more likely to marry and mate with each other–a factor that may be largely due to shared language–
Interesting post, but this bit seems odd. For millennia it was virtually certain that people would mate with others in their region, just because travelling any distance was obviously uncommon. I don’t see how language causes that. Rather, I think that people in a region tended to speak a common language for much the same reason.
“I, for one, fell off my chair.”
Pics, or it didn’t happen!
Don’t know about this. If it was accurate, shouldn’t there be a lot of “RU”‘s and “UA”‘s in western Poland? Or is that the white gap between Germany and Poland?
“Why would a white American feel loyalty to people like Jeremiah Wright, Obama, and Farrakhan?”
Impressive sandwich!…you left out the mayo… Moreover this comparison would come as a great shock to the majority of African Americans, who recognize Obama for who he is in the context of black leaders ……Jeremaiah Wright is a civil rights era veteran, and Farrakhan as a latter day civil war veteran…obama on the other hand is a cultural-racial-social hybrid, with shallow racial roots.
For blacks, in a “slam-dunk democrats year”, his struggles to woo mark and is ilk, brings to fore the painfull realization that there never will be a “black president”.
And mark, I highly doubt Farrakahn would shake the guys hand outside of an photo-op.
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