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05 Aug 2010, 10:56 am
Can you explain that more? I'm western European.
From what I understand the mitochondrial DNA remains unchanged from mother to daughter and there is a variation only every 20,000 years or so. It's also passed down to a son but only the daughter can pass it on to her daughter. My nephew had his DNA sequenced through the National Geographic Project and so he had access to my sister's mtDNA (his mother) information. I think it ended up with Haplogroup H which is something like 60% of Western Europeans. Since there's a mutation only every 20,000 years or so it's easy to track. It all sort of ends prehistory, so there's not a lot to tell culturally. Basically,chances are you and I share the same cave great grandmother. Hello cousin.
I have the book but it's been lent out to another family member. You can find more recent information through your father's DNA. It costs about $100 US dollars to do it. There is information only passed down from father to son. My father is deceased so it's down to a brother to do it. Here's a link to the NGS Genographic project.
https://genographic.nationalgeographic. ... index.html
and to something about Bryan Syke's book.
http://www.allreaders.com/topics/Info_11088.asp
Sorry to go on and on. This stuff really interests me.
But wait! There's more!
http://www.tsakanikas.net/Maternalclans.htm
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Depends on the language you're speaking, which is interesting. In English the American landmass is usually considered to be two distinct continents, North America (including Central America) and South America, rather than one continent divided into del Norte, Central and del Sur subcontinents as in Spanish.
The Olympic rings treat the Americas as a single continent, but then again they treat Europe, Asia and Africa as distinct, which is pretty silly given Europe and Asia are far more connected than North America and South America are.
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The Olympic rings treat the Americas as a single continent, but then again they treat Europe, Asia and Africa as distinct, which is pretty silly given Europe and Asia are far more connected than North America and South America are.
Right, I wasn't talking in geographical terms but in political terms. But, yeah, according to english wikipedia "America may be ambiguous in English, as it is more commonly used to refer to the United States of America."
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