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03 Apr 2008, 9:12 pm

mmm a Danish roll sounds good right now.

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03 Apr 2008, 9:41 pm

Spiral153 wrote:

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Or red hair Coming from descendents of vikings who invaded parts of Europe.

actually I think red hair is a Celtic trait and may have come from the Irish women captured during Viking raids, you see alot of redheads in Iceland, Danes were darker haired, Swedes were blond

I just wanted to point out that red hair is also commonly found among Jewish populations. I once read somewhere that during World War II, in certain parts of Europe, red hair was considered a telltale sign of Jewish heritage.

thats funny my Jewish neighbors kids are all Ginger Kids with curly red hair, my great grandfather who was half native and scottish also had curly red hair, I think the gene is recessive though western Europeans, the Celts were also living on the steeps of Russia, so it shouldn't be to surprising that Jewish people have the same recessive gene.

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03 Apr 2008, 9:50 pm

I'm African American with German and Grenadian ancestry.

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03 Apr 2008, 9:52 pm

spudnik wrote:

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I call myself a Metis Canadian first, but my ethnicity includes:
Cree
Sarcie
French
Danish
German
Scottish
Portuguese

What is Sarcie?

The Sarcie are Sioux from Manitoba

My bad, on further research, I was looking at the wrong outdated records in my family tree, Sarcie was misspelled, and they are Sarcee (Tsuu T'ina) which are related to the Blackfoot Nation, and not the Sioux, and lived around the Edmonton Area, not in Manitoba

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03 Apr 2008, 9:54 pm

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I've read that red hair is a trait left-over from the caveman; as is AS.

I could find that study for you if you like.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hQf ... fuiEHMIXYg
it sure explains my ex wife Ogghelda

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03 Apr 2008, 10:00 pm

spudnik wrote:

Averick wrote:

I've read that red hair is a trait left-over from the caveman; as is AS.

I could find that study for you if you like.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hQf ... fuiEHMIXYg
it sure explains my ex wife Ogghelda

Aren't Neanderthals a sub-species that died out?

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03 Apr 2008, 11:26 pm

MartyMoose wrote:

spudnik wrote:

Averick wrote:

I've read that red hair is a trait left-over from the caveman; as is AS.

I could find that study for you if you like.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hQf ... fuiEHMIXYg
it sure explains my ex wife Ogghelda

Aren't Neanderthals a sub-species that died out?

there is still some debate on wither they interbred, I thinks its possible, but there isn't any mitochondrial proof as of yet

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03 Apr 2008, 11:51 pm

spudnik wrote:

MartyMoose wrote:

spudnik wrote:

Averick wrote:

I've read that red hair is a trait left-over from the caveman; as is AS.

I could find that study for you if you like.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hQf ... fuiEHMIXYg
it sure explains my ex wife Ogghelda

Aren't Neanderthals a sub-species that died out?

there is still some debate on wither they interbred, I thinks its possible, but there isn't any mitochondrial proof as of yet

How many Chromosomes did neanderthals have? Shouldn't the offspring have been sterile since they were hybrids?

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04 Apr 2008, 12:35 am

I'm Swiss, both German and French-speaking. But mostly German speaking.

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04 Apr 2008, 1:05 am

I'm mostly French and English, I guess. I've got a random red beard amongst brown/black facial hair, which runs on the side that doesn't have any Irish as far as I know. Genetics are fun.

French
English
German
Irish
Spanish
Cajun - which could imply some kind of Native American or Creole heritage also, I never looked too much into that.

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04 Apr 2008, 1:12 am

australian
but some irish, english and german (earlier generations)

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04 Apr 2008, 2:11 am

MartyMoose wrote:

spudnik wrote:

MartyMoose wrote:

spudnik wrote:

Averick wrote:

I've read that red hair is a trait left-over from the caveman; as is AS.

I could find that study for you if you like.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hQf ... fuiEHMIXYg
it sure explains my ex wife Ogghelda

Aren't Neanderthals a sub-species that died out?

there is still some debate on wither they interbred, I thinks its possible, but there isn't any mitochondrial proof as of yet

How many Chromosomes did neanderthals have? Shouldn't the offspring have been sterile since they were hybrids?

Its still open on if they interbred, since the mDNA and DNA samples are degraded, it shows there is a 99.5% to 99.9% similarity between both species, the answer is in that .5% to .1% variance
the great apes have 48 chromosomes, I would tend to think that since Homo sapiens neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens are closer on the evolutionary tree, they should have a similar amount of chromosomes, we have 46 & chimps have 48, and by the facial reconstructions of some, they are very close to modern human, as in indistinguishable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal

Reconstruction of a NeanderthaI child from Gibraltar (Anthropological Institute, University of Zürich).

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04 Apr 2008, 3:30 am

I'm 11th generation South African and belong to the ethnic group of Afrikaners

My ethnic make-up is
-German
-French
-Dutch
-Scottish
-English
-little bit of Malaysian

An interesting fact I read once is that a study showed the highest prevalence of Tourette's among any ethnic group world-wide is found in Afrikaners. The reason is our relatively small, isolated gene pool. It was also mentioned on one of the forums here that AS and Tourette's are the most likely to be co-morbid. Makes me wonder if Afrikaners have the highest insidence of AS then?

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05 Apr 2008, 5:34 am

bump

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05 Apr 2008, 5:52 am

That picture of the Neanderthal girl is a bit startling. For a second I thought it was some WP member's photo.

I actually know someone who looks a lot like that! :lol:

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05 Apr 2008, 6:05 am

I think i am english,german,irish, and cherokee(east i would think).

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