Tag Archives: DNA ancestry
SNPs are Us
It won’t be long before snp is added to the pantheon of approved English words in the OED. It will sit among those rarest of words, those that lack a vowel like the crafty Welsh invented—cwm (a mountain hollow), crwth … Continue reading
Posted in Biomedical, Health
Tagged 23andme, DNA ancestry, DNA testing, genetic disease, promethease, single nucleotide polymorphisms, SNPs
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From DNA to New Cousins & Ancestry
The back of a Cornflakes box is a good deal more absorbing than another person’s family tree. Genealogy is a rather personal game of history. Our interest seems to gain momentum with age, which may unfortunately mean we are too … Continue reading
Posted in Biomedical, Health
Tagged 23andme, ancestry, ancestry.com, DNA ancestry, Family Tree DNA, Finding Your Roots, genealogy, King Richard III, Queen Victoria, Who Do you Think You Are?
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My Big Fat Neanderthal Family Wedding
Was there a population that never experienced discrimination? Prejudice has an ancient pedigree, perhaps wired into the human psyche. I was musing whether Neanderthal people bore it first and endured the stigma longest. Thirty thousand years after they mysteriously disappeared, … Continue reading
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Tagged archaic humans, Brain size, Captain Fitzroy, Charles Darwin, DNA ancestry, Ernst Haeckel, Fuegian, John Gurche, Neanderthals, phrenology, Tierra del Fuego
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Roger musing about Peace with Nature 