dna study says europeans are all cousins..

[sky otter]

not sure where to put this so oooooooo

the dna stuff doesn't hold water for me in the big way it is protrait..but long ago and far away in something i read and can't quote anymore
(when you get old the damn filing system is so crowded it's hard to put the right file ..sigh)

anyway

the basque folk have held a fascination for me mostly because their language can't be traced to any other....and the conjecture has always been that they are from a long ago race that took to the hills to survive ...(atlantis, or? )
the little blurp here about spain and italy... it is just a pointer to my memory that the basque people were held to be 'different'

anyone with basque 'cousins' care to comment..hint hint..



http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/dna-study-shows-europeans-share-common-ancestors-who-lived-1000-years-ago/2013/05/07/abe89194-b759-11e2-b568-6917f6ac6d9d_story.html


The study did find subtle regional variations. For reasons still unclear, Italians and Spaniards appear to be less closely related than most Europeans to people elsewhere on the continent.


DNA study shows Europeans share common ancestors who lived 1,000 years ago
7Share to FacebookShare on TwitterAdd to PersonalPostSave to KindleShare via EmailPrint ArticleMoreBy Associated Press, May 07, 2013 09:04 PM EDT

AP Published: May 7
BERLIN — Europeans appear to be more closely related than previously thought.

Scientists who compared DNA samples from people in different parts of the continent found that most had common ancestors living just 1,000 years ago.



World Digest: May 7, 2013
MAY 7

The results confirm decade-old mathematical models, but will nevertheless come as a surprise to Europeans accustomed to thinking of ancient nations composed of distinct ethnic groups like "Germans," ''Irish" or "Serbs."

"What's remarkable about this is how closely everyone is related to each other," said Graham Coop of the University of California, Davis, who co-wrote the study published Tuesday in the journal PLoS Biology.

Coop and his fellow author Peter Ralph of the University of Southern California used a database containing more than 2,250 genetic samples to look for shared DNA segments that would point to distant shared relatives.

While the number of common genetic ancestors is greater the closer people are to each other, even individuals living 2,000 miles (3,220 kilometers) apart had identical sections of DNA that can be traced back roughly to the Middle Ages.

The findings indicate that there was a steady flow of genetic material between countries as far apart as Turkey and Britain, or Poland and Portugal, even after the great population movements of the first millennium A.D. such as the Saxon and Viking invasions of Britain, and the westward drive of the Huns and Slavic peoples.

The study did find subtle regional variations. For reasons still unclear, Italians and Spaniards appear to be less closely related than most Europeans to people elsewhere on the continent.


it's an ass. press article so you gotta go read it at the link..sorry..coyright and all that___

Author's FAQ on the study: http://gcbias.org/european-genealogy-faq/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/dna-study-shows-europeans-share-common-ancestors-who-lived-1000-years-ago/2013/05/07/abe89194-b759-11e2-b568-6917f6ac6d9d_story.html

[ArMaP]

Interesting article, thanks for that.

As I suspected, the idiots that wrote the article say "Spaniards" when they should have said "from the Iberian Peninsula", they ignored Portugal.