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  1. BrianFromWA

    BrianFromWA Editor in Chief Staff Member Editor in Chief

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    the brutal heat of Seattle probably caused the Irishman to shed his clothes...couldn't take the heat anymore...back to the fog and wearing a raincoat at the beach for him! And even a baseball stadium which is surrounded by walls on all sides couldn't keep the foreigner out!
     
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    In response to your last statement - That's because Trump didn't build the walls and charge Mexico for doing so.
     
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    The Irish will pay for this!
     
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    Aha, well then, it's fine by me. And the Irish will be more than happy to pay, I presume?

    We should give Trump the nod to begin negotiating, which he is expert at, as soon as possible. He'll arrive at an acceptable conclusion in no time flat.
     
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    UncleCliffy'sDaddy We're all Bozos on this bus.

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    Heck, provide the beer and the Irish will build the wall all by themselves. And in record time......
     
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    If you're giving the Irish free beer...don't expect record time....after the first pint the stories start and they are long stories....then there's beer drinking between sentences.....you'll end up with a wall that looks like Stonehenge! (I can say this because I have a lot of Irish family) ..take away the beer and you'll have an uprising!
     
  8. Lanny

    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    I recently received a DNA test that I paid for. I've heard rumors of Irish, English, Scottish and Cherokee blood in my veins. It'll be interesting to find out.

    I strongly suspect Irish blood which explains why I like beer. Also, almost certainly I have Scottish blood because I love Scotch whiskey. The English blood is least likely and the Cherokee is the most likely.

    Hey, I've never been able to prove that I'm 1/16 Cherokee. If I can now prove it does this mean I get some sort of benefit? Free beer?
     
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    no...but you'll be able to open a Casino and smoke tobacco in it.....my maternal Grandmother is half Lakota and half French Canadian...she never identified herself as anything other than American though...
     
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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    No free beer, but the President will now refer to you as Pocahontas.

    barfo
     
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
     
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    Who did you order the test from? The one from Ancestry.com sucks.

    National Geographic's is excellent.
     
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    Ancestry.com and why does it suck?
     
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    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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    I'm not kidding, it will only show your white (european) ancestry. No mitochondrial eve, no identifying which migration wave out of africa, and if you do have native american ancestry, it won't identify which migration wave into the Americas. Also it doesn't identify any hominid markers in your dna. I've met you, I wouldn't be surprised if your ancient ancestor fucked a neanderthal.

    The journey of our ancient ancestors is a fascinating and amazing story.

    https://shop.nationalgeographic.com/collections/geno-2-0-dna-ancestry-kit-usa-delivery
     
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    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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    A international team of researchers has completed one of the most detailed analyses of a Neanderthal genome to date. Among the many new findings, the researchers learned that Neanderthals first mated with modern humans a surprisingly long time ago, and that humans living today have more Neanderthal DNA than we assumed.

    Before this new study, only four Neanderthal specimens have had their genomes sequenced. Of these, only one—an Altai Neanderthal found in Siberia—was of sufficient quality, where scientists were able to accurately flag variations in the genome. The new analysis, enabled by a remarkably well-preserved genome taken from a 52,000 year old bone fragment, is now the second Neanderthal genome to be fully sequenced in high fidelity. The resulting study, now published in Science, confirms a bunch of things we already knew about Neanderthals, while also revealing some things we didn’t know.



    The international research team that conducted this study—a group led by Kay Prüfer and Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany—sequenced the genome of a female Neanderthal, dubbed Vindija 33.19, whose remains were uncovered at Vindija Cave in northern Croatia. By studying Neanderthal genomes in detail, and by comparing their DNA to those of modern humans, scientists can learn more about our evolutionary history and biology. And indeed, the researchers made some interesting discoveries.

    Based on previous archaeological and genetic evidence, archaeologists and anthropologists suspected that Neanderthals were thinly dispersed across Europe and Asia. The lack of genetic diversity (low heterozygosity) in the Vindija 33.19 specimen affirms these earlier findings, showing that Neanderthals “lived in small and isolated populations” and “with an effective population size of around 3,000 individuals,” the researchers write in their study.

    The earlier genomic analysis of the female Altai Neanderthal showed that her parents were half-siblings, which got scientists thinking that Neanderthals made it a habit of breeding with immediate family members. But the Vindija 33.19 genome is different; her parents were not as closely related, so we can no longer say that extreme inbreeding is a common fixture of the Neanderthals. That said, the Croatian Neanderthal shared a maternal ancestor with three other individuals found in the Vindija Cave (whose genomes aren’t nearly as complete).

    The previous Altai Neanderthal study also suggested that Neanderthals starting breeding with archaic modern humans around 100,000 years ago, but the new analysis pushes that back even further to between 130,000 to 145,000 years ago. The location of these sub-species encounters probably happened in the Middle East or the Arabian Peninsula, but before modern humans spread en masse into Europe and Asia.

    A comparative analysis of the Vindija 33.19 DNA to living humans resulted in an uptick in the amount of genes retained by Homo sapiens. When our ancestors mated with Neanderthals, we absorbed and retained some of their genes—some good, and some bad (more on this in just a second). Some of these genes have been lost forever (due to natural selection weeding out unfavorable inherited traits), but some have stuck around. Prüfer and Pääbo say that, based on the new high-quality genome, modern populations carry between 1.8 to 2.6 percent Neanderthal DNA—that’s higher than the previous estimates of about 1.5 to 2.1 percent. More specifically, East Asians have about 2.3 to 2.6 percent Neanderthal DNA, while people from western Europe and Asia have retained about 1.8 to 2.4 percent DNA. African populations have virtually none because their ancestors did not mate with Neanderthals.

    https://gizmodo.com/humans-have-even-more-neanderthal-dna-than-we-realized-1819182225
     
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    I have one of those kits sitting on my desk for the past year. Lots of my family members did it then. For the most part, Most European decedents will get a hodge podge mixture because of inter breading due to conquests and wars the past few thousand years. Even distinct countries that historically have believed to have an element of purity, such as Scandinavian countries, will have on average of 15% mixed backgrounds.

    Long and short of it, if you came from Ireland, you may very well have the approximate same percentages as someone from Austria, especially when you consider tat most of us here are a product of the great mixing bowl that this country is.

    Only those of strong ethnic backgrounds show strong variance, like Greeks, Spanish etc.

    So, if you are a mutt like most of us, your test will look a lot like mine.
     
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    This is how you end up with sourdough french bread and cronuts.
     
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    Proof of Neandrathal dna is all around us
    chris kaman.jpg
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    What's the point of deporting him when we know the lax maritime border will let him swim back again and again? What we need is a seawall.
     
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