LL-L "Genetics" 2007.07.07 (02) [E]

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From: Paul Finlow-Bates <wolf_thunder51 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Genetics" 2007.07.06 (08) [E]

>From DAvid Clarke:

Thus only a tiny proportion of the modern gene pool might actually be
"Bronze Age".
 Paul Finlow-Bates.


I don't understand this statement at all. Surely everyone alive today is
descended from someone in the Bronze Age. Do you mean that many genes have
mutated and weren't around in the Bronze Age?

David Clarke

David,

I didn't put that very well did I?  You're quite right, of course we all
have Bronze Age ancestors.  But most of them didn't live where we now live.
For most Americans, Australians etc. that's pretty obvious, but the
implication of the article was that the genetics were showing a continuity
in that area of Europe back to the Bronze Age.  My point was that nearly all
of the total gene pool of the people there could still come from
immigrants.  Those incomers also had Bronze Age forbears - but somewhere
else.

Paul Finlow-Bates

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