Brits, Irish, Scots: New Genetic Studies Suggest They're All One

[Stealth Hunter]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/05/science/05cnd-brits.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

:o :rotfl:

[JSLTIGER]

Are you kidding? They actually spent money on this?

:nope:

[Stealth Hunter]

Yep.

Heh, just drew the conclusion that the English are sort of bashing themselves when they go after the Irish/Scots.:doh: That's a bit awkward.

[antikristuseke]

Considering the fact that we can all be traced back geneticaly to the San(if i remember correctly) people from Africa it is not really a surprise, now is it.

[Tchocky]

Think you mean, English, Irish, Scots.

EDIT - We more or less knew this already.

[TarJak]

Wot about the Welsh then?:doh:

[danlisa]

Sweet!

We Cornish are fine then.:rotfl:

[lesrae]

Does this not tie back to the whole thing about that swath of land travelling south west across Scotland/Ireland/Wales/Cornwall/Brittany all being full of a bunch of Celts?

[Rotary Crewman]

We Cornish are fine then.:rotfl:

Define 'fine' :hmm::lol:

[Letum]

Am I right in thinking there are very few both genetically and geologically distinctive
peoples in Europe?

The Basques and Sammi are the only ones that spring to mind.

Europe has been a genetic melting pot for thousands of years, let alone England, Scotland and Ireland.

Personaly I decend from Scots, Germans and Hebrews and English.

[STEED]

We Cornish are fine then.:rotfl:

Define 'fine' :hmm::lol:

We all know the Cornish are inbred. :roll:

[Letum]

We Cornish are fine then.:rotfl:
Define 'fine' :hmm::lol:
We all know the Cornish are inbred. :roll:

Everyone is inbread.

Do the math, if everyone was the result of 2 unrelated parents, then the population of the
world at 1000BC would have been in the billions of trillions. ;)

There is a lot of inbreeding!

[mrbeast]

We Cornish are fine then.:rotfl:
Define 'fine' :hmm::lol:
We all know the Cornish are inbred. :roll:

Everyone is inbread.

Do the math, if everyone was the result of 2 unrelated parents, then the population of the
world at 1000BC would have been in the billions of trillions. ;)

There is a lot of inbreeding!

IIRC there is greater genetic difference between different family groups of mountain gorrillas than there is in the whole of humanity.

[STEED]

Dose this make you my DNA wife?


Bloody hope not. :rotfl:

[baggygreen]

We Cornish are fine then.:rotfl:
Define 'fine' :hmm::lol:
We all know the Cornish are inbred. :roll:
Everyone is inbread.

Do the math, if everyone was the result of 2 unrelated parents, then the population of the
world at 1000BC would have been in the billions of trillions. ;)

There is a lot of inbreeding!
IIRC there is greater genetic difference between different family groups of mountain gorrillas than there is in the whole of humanity.now how the hell does that work i wonder... i seriously cant get my head around the mathematical, logical path here that says its impossible??

[mrbeast]

Possible explanation for the lack of genetic diversity in Humanity:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory


According to the Toba catastrophe theory, 70,000 to 75,000 years ago a supervolcanic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervolcano) event at Lake Toba (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Toba), on Sumatra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumatra), reduced the world's human population to 10,000 or even a mere 1,000 breeding pairs, creating a bottleneck in human evolution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution)

[Letum]

IIRC there is greater genetic difference between different family groups of mountain gorrillas than there is in the whole of humanity.now how the hell does that work i wonder... i seriously cant get my head around the mathematical, logical path here that says its impossible??
I have no idea if that quote if accurate.

It's not impossible tho, if mountain Gorillas do not travel far and only breed within
their close social groups.


If Gorilla groups are more isolated from each other and for longer time periods than
humans, they are likely to have more distinct genetics from group to group.

[geetrue]

Out of these three Irish, Brits and Scots which one has the best female redheads?

I would have to say the Irish, but she was American/Irish and strawberry blonde.

She sure was nice though ... :p

Then again she was only 17 ... I don't think hot redheads last forever.

[Tchocky]

I'm a hot Irish redhead myself, geetrue :D

[STEED]

I'm a hot Irish redhead myself, geetrue :D

Get out of town, really?

[Tchocky]

I'm a hot Irish redhead myself, geetrue :D
Get out of town, really?
Well, not a female one :p

[STEED]

I'm a hot Irish redhead myself, geetrue :D
Get out of town, really?
Well, not a female one :p

You never struck me as a female. :rotfl: