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Yeah, it would be interesting to have the rest of Eastern Europe on there too...and perhaps Turkey too.
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As I said, I suspect there's some limited resources for the research, and they were based in Western Europe. Frankly, I'm happy Romania even made it in.
Really I'd like to see something similar for the whole world. I'm sure we'd discover a fair number of interesting relationships. (I wonder if the various Yugoslav peoples are actually different genetically, or just culturally?)
It also looks like these guys were being more thorough than the National Geographic study I submitted a sample to awhile back. Basically, their result was that I was from somewhere in the area between Northern India and the British Isles... (woo!)."The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists."
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I would actually be interested in my own genetics. My hair colour and other features are not typically Northern European. I suspect it comes from the large chunk of Cornish descent in my family (and thus Celtic) but it is impossible to know. It's a scary thought that I could possibly be more genetically French
Speaking of Erith:
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i've heard a few theories suggesting that recently, some of them focusing on genetics, some on things like place names. i read an article though which savaged the place names idea, so i'm not sure how much support these ideas have.Originally posted by Victor Galis
That's old news I thought. I remember some BBC Science article talking about how conventional wisdom had said that the Anglo-Saxons had pushed the previous population out, but genetic evidence just seemed to indicate that the old population was instead assimilated culturally and absorbed.
the fact that britain and ireland are so close is not a huge surprise, even if you take the view that the saxons pushed out the original inhabitants of britain. there were english settlements in dublin and meath in the 13th and 14th centuries which were absorbed into the irish population. the scots who gave their name to scotland, were an irish tribe, and there was significant migration by scottish and english colonists into ireland (plantation) which was started by henry viii and continued for the next two centuries. there was also a massive migration of irish people to mainland britain in the decades after the potato famine."The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
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My theory on Greeks being assimilated Slavs is correc!
Macedonians have as much rigt to call themselves that as Greeks do to call themselves Greek!
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OKOriginally posted by Oerdin
Bring Europe closer together. Have sex with Finnish girls.
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Your ancestors had sex with CORN?Originally posted by Provost Harrison
I would actually be interested in my own genetics. My hair colour and other features are not typically Northern European. I suspect it comes from the large chunk of Cornish descent in my family (and thus Celtic) but it is impossible to know. It's a scary thought that I could possibly be more genetically French
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Actually, it makes me wonder how slavic the population of the former Yugoslavia is. It doesn't overlap at all with the Czechs or Poles. That's part of the reason I'd really like to see Bulgaria and Russia.Originally posted by Heraclitus
My theory on Greeks being assimilated Slavs is correc!
Macedonians have as much rigt to call themselves that as Greeks do to call themselves Greek!
[Trolling Markos/]"The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists."
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I feel so ronery...I've allways wanted to play "Russ Meyer's Civilization"Comment
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They've been separated from other Slavs by Hungarians and Romanians, and got raped by Turks a lot. I guess that would explain at least some of the difference.Originally posted by Victor Galis
Actually, it makes me wonder how slavic the population of the former Yugoslavia is. It doesn't overlap at all with the Czechs or Poles. That's part of the reason I'd really like to see Bulgaria and Russia.Graffiti in a public toilet
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I find it a bit funny that france are considered as a unique entity - I would have expected at least five.
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I think they only split them when there were substantially different groups in one country that also split themselves among geographic lines. Romania, for example, i'd guess is one entity because, while the Roma and the slavic or latin Romanians are highly distinct populations, they are mixed together to some extent geographically. The countries they split, ie Spain (basques) have geographic divisions between the populations.<Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
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Well, that is the reason I'm curious.
There must be a serious mar k of normans in nomandy; same with the basque regions - then there are those that has acted as a yoyo between france and germany - the italian part are maybe a nonissue, but what the heck
Overall, it doesn't make much sense to claim france a DNA unity since they certainly can't be that.With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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Except they didn't split the basques. It looks like one point is in the center and one is in Catalonia. Then again, I'm sure with infinite resources they'd have had more points.Originally posted by snoopy369
I think they only split them when there were substantially different groups in one country that also split themselves among geographic lines. Romania, for example, i'd guess is one entity because, while the Roma and the slavic or latin Romanians are highly distinct populations, they are mixed together to some extent geographically. The countries they split, ie Spain (basques) have geographic divisions between the populations.
edit: Though using the Basques as the second spanish point would have been more interesting."The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists."
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Hmm, maybe they just didn't survey the basques, then. I thought ES2 was in the basque territory?<Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
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