Ah well – I was taken in – I always am. At least I had
not sent off any money.
An excellent article by the real Genetic Professionals
reveals the truth.
Genetic testing - "to see from whence one came" - is little
better than fortune telling or horoscopes.
The commercial companies doing it are using science designed
for populations, not individuals. The writer of the article suggests that they find out what you
want to hear and interpret the findings to fit (in the same way as a fortune
teller).
This is the article
It says several interesting things.
We all have 4 grandparents and 8 great grandparents - the
number doubles with each generation.
So 10 generations (200-300 years) back we each have 1,000
and so on. You don’t have to go too far back before we have more ancestors than
we have DNA. In other words - we have some ancestors from whom we have inherited
no DNA – they are too distant.
And
Via the male Y-DNA everyone today shares an ancestor who
lived 240,000 and 580,000 years ago
Via the female Mt-DNA, everyone today shares an ancestor
who lived between 160,000 and 200,000 years ago
Via the Autosomal-DNA everyone today shares an ancestor who
lived about 1 million years ago.
But
If you look for the most recent person that everyone
alive today is descended from - you only have to go back 3,500 years.
Having quickly Googled -“World time line” and taken 2013 away from 3,500 - I reckon that means approximately 1,500 BC
So I have come up
with the below-
40,000 BC - Homo Sapiens arrived in Europe
24,000 BC - The start of the ice age over Britain (in which nothing could have lived)
12,000 BC - The
Ice age receded and man began to go back to Britain
2400 BC - Stonehenge
was being built
2000 BC - Start
of Bronze Age in Britain
1500 BC
-
Oldest Common ancestor of everyone alive today
1185 BC - The Trojan
war
1100 BC - Chinese
invented gunpowder
800 BC - Start of Iron Age in Britain
725 BC - Homer
390 BC - Socrates
275 BC - Celts in Britain
0 - Jesus was born
29 AD - Pompeii obliterated when Vesuvius erupted
43 AD - Roman
Britain
685 AD - Pictish Scotland
793 AD - Viking
Britain
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