<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 06 July 2007 - Volume 05</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Paul Finlow-Bates <<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">
wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Genetics" 2007.07.06 (01) [E/German]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">The
problem with Y-Chromosome descent is that is indicates father-to-son
descent only. That line is just one of a vast number of lines
(father-son - daughter-daughter-son etc.) that contribute just as much
to the overall genes of a person. Thus only a tiny proportion of the
modern gene pool might actually be "Bronze Age". I would also question
whether this is really "die längste Stammbaumlinie der Welt ";
asimilar exercise in the Cheddar area of Dorset supposedly establishes
a continuity back to at least Neotlithic times.</div>
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<div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">But
if you want a good argument, get into genes. The head of steam raised
on other sites I belong to when this comes up is unbelievable!</div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Paul Finlow-Bates</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">sassisch@yahoo.com
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Subject: Genetics<br><br>Thanks, Jonny and Paul.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I freely admit that genetics is not my strong suit, to say the least, but it does interest me these days with regard to historical migration and also language.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">It may be hard to believe at my age, but recently I (finally) found out what my blood type is: B+. It is a fairly rarely occurring type in Western Europe and also in the US (7-8%,
7.4% here in Seattle) and Australia (8%), including the UK (8%) and the Netherlands' "Dutch" (9%). Fascinatingly, the occurrence rate goes up as you go eastward in Eurasia. So Germans (who have absorbed many Slavs) has 11%, Austrians (who also absorbed many Slavs) 13%, Poles 14%, Hungarians (Magyars) 16%, Finns 18%, Romanians 19%, Estonians 23%, Russians 23%, etc. The highest concentrations (25%-40%) are in Western Central Asia (especially among Mongolic peoples such as Buryat and Kalmuck and Turkic peoples such as Tatar and Bashkir) and in Eastern Asia (including Ainu with 32% vs Japanese with 22%). There is also a band of fairly high concentration across Africa from roughly Ethiopia to West Africa, but low concentrations elsewhere in Africa. Then, in the South Pacific concentrations are very low (though high in the Philippines!) and, amazingly, they are rarely more than 0% among Australian and American aboriginal people.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type
</a></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/*/http:/anthro.palomar.edu/vary/vary_3.htm">http://web.archive.org/web/*/http:/anthro.palomar.edu/vary/vary_3.htm
</a></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.bloodbook.com/world-abo.html">http://www.bloodbook.com/world-abo.html</a></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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