DUBLIN, IRELAND—Geneticists from Trinity College Dublin and archaeologists from Queen’s University Belfast sequenced the genomes of a Neolithic woman who lived near Belfast some 5,200 years ago, and three men who lived during the Bronze Age, some 4,000 years ago, on Rathlin Island. The team found that the early farmer had black hair and brown eyes, and her ancestors had originated in the Middle East. They probably brought agriculture with them across Europe to Ireland. The Bronze Age men had blue eye alleles, the most common Irish Y chromosome type, and the most important variant for the genetic disease haemochromatosis, which is now frequent in people of Irish descent and sometimes thought of as a Celtic disease. About a third of the ancestors of the Bronze Age men came from the northern shores of the Black Sea. “There was a great wave of genome change that swept into Europe from above the Black Sea into Bronze Age Europe and we now know it washed all the way to the shores of its most westerly island,” study leader Dan Bradley of Trinity College Dublin said in a press release. To read more about Bronze Age Ireland, go to "Bronze Age Ireland’s Taste in Gold." http://www.archaeology.org/news/4034-151229-ireland-genomes-sequenced
I don't know where they came from, but they all end up drinking in a bar, singing songs and playing darts.
Mankind was born in Africa. Over a very long time most of their offspring migrated to cooler climes. Many who migrated evolved, some faster than others, some not at all. Many who migrated had offspring who migrated again. Those who stayed in Africa did not evolve nearly as much. I was born in America, the greatest place on Earth to be born. Like hitting the lottery.
For hundreds of thousands of years (until sea travel), all humans in Europe came from Africa through the Middle East. Finally, in 2015, scientists discovered that the proto-Irish came through the Middle East. The reason that this is news is that what was already known through fossil bones has been proven through the new science of genetics. When forensic genetics actually makes new discoveries, I'll pay attention.
So, what you're saying is that all Irishmen are muslim terrorists. You're not funny. And you're offensive. And when it rains you smell and shake on things.
In one of my ethnic studies classes in college they said people from India are actually genetically related to the Caucasian race
So we got the wanderlust from the gypsies and the alcohol tolerance from the Vikings....we seem to have missed out on the food skills entirely
No Kidding. Haven't accepted an invite for dinner from my kin in more than 50 years. There is pub down town here though, Foley's Irish Pub.. I love it, one good pint of beer and the Foley burger. Don't mess around with the rest of that crap though.
