neat stuff

Yes, it does. The definitive threshold, though, is the answer to the question, "Do you like Dune?"








munk
 
One should be careful to differentiate between a blood grouping and an ethnic/religious grouping.
Being Semitic or Hamitic is not the same as being one of the "lost tribes of Israel"

Aliens - I dont know if one could find their blood in ours, but I imagine they did their own genetic mapping of our species a long, long time ago.
 
Interesting stuff.

As my last name is an American version of a German version of the French name "Richard," and as there's been at least one king named Richard, I'm claiming royal blood. Evidence be damned, it makes me sleep better at night. You can blame the census taking procedures of the seventeenth century for my delusional behavior, as the records peter out at that point. (They're also the ones that turned Richard into Rischar, starting the whole ordeal in the first place.)

When I get my royal portrait painted, I have a feeling that there will be some airbrushing involved but no one will remember that in a few hundred years. I have this all figured out. ;)

Ironically, the Italian side of my family has a story about royal blood, a lonely travelling noble, and some illegitimate offspring. My story seems to have more evidence backing it, but the story of the Celvi's is far more interesting.
 
well being from north ga, I guess I'll find out if I really have an
ndn princess in the family tree or if the ancestors were blowing
smoke ..... I signed up ..... heck why not?

Wouldn't it be funny if some did find alien blood from somthing like this.....
wouldn't that set the world on it's ear?
 
That was my tree. I told you. None of this would have happened if you'd listened. But the Aliens got involved, and the rest, they say, is history.
Darn you.





munk
 
Sorry. I thought the Mother Ship had picked you up already. They caught Cousin Joe and sent him to a zoo in Pakistan.
 
brantoken, That's a good link. Spencer Wells has written a more detailed (but by now slightly less current) explanation of a lot of that in a book The Journey of Man : A Genetic Odyssey. It's quite readable, though sometimes I wished for more detail. Some people will probably want less detail. :cool:

On the Lemba:
DIJ wrote:
One should be careful to differentiate between a blood grouping and an ethnic/religious grouping.
Being Semitic or Hamitic is not the same as being one of the "lost tribes of Israel"
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That is definitely true. However, as I understand the Lemba situation (and there is, of course, a strong chance that I've got it garbled :rolleyes: ), there is a very high occurrence of a specific gene marker among Lemba men that is otherwise found only among the Jewish "Cohen" men. This certainly does not, by itself, constitute a religious affiliation, but the Lemba tradition of considering themselves Jewish does constitute at least a religious self-identification. IIRC, the genetics of the group provide very strong evidence that they did descend from at least one Jewish man, of priestly descent. IIRC, there is also some additional evidence of a connection with the Yemen area. Yemen was a area with a long Jewish connection.

I don't recall any specific evidence that places the Jewish/Yemen connection in the relevant time period of the "Babylonian Exile" which would be critical for "finding" the "Ten Lost Tribes of Israel". That evidence may be present somewhere, but so far, it has been omitted from anything I've been aware of.

Paul
 
munk said:
The Bozos on the Bus
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Hey, I resemble that remark! I used to be a Firesign Theater fan myself, once upon a time. :D

(And I do try to make myself useful every now and then. :cool: )

Paul
 
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