tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023805782808412230.post7008554744418513805..comments2024-03-09T15:46:44.638+01:00Comments on For what they were... we are: Genetic reason...Majuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023805782808412230.post-27483296370650291812011-05-11T15:41:58.793+02:002011-05-11T15:41:58.793+02:00Why care about yourself 30 years from now ?
That ...Why care about yourself 30 years from now ?<br /><br />That 'you' will be very different to the current one.Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01637818790791725275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023805782808412230.post-67324515962380222762011-05-06T16:35:37.454+02:002011-05-06T16:35:37.454+02:00I understand that the Chingis Khan myth is pretty ...I understand that the Chingis Khan myth is pretty much another modern myth built on legitimate genetic findings but worthless in itself. The alleged Chingis Khan haplotype should be in fact a Turkic lineage from the time of the Turkic expansion, at least a thousand years before Chingis ever lived.<br /><br />Whatever the case, haplotypes and haplogroups, which are indivisible but functionally almost irrelevant, are not what is being debated here. The cartoon obviously means autosomal DNA. <br /><br />The case is that today's DNA of any living human should be diluted to insignificance (with the possible exception of haploid elements like mitochondrial DNA) in few centuries, as much as your molecules dissolve into generic "dust" upon death. <br /><br />Chaos wins, order loses again. Order, even at a biological level ends up being trivial, misleading...Majuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023805782808412230.post-91230534824729297872011-05-06T12:37:32.746+02:002011-05-06T12:37:32.746+02:00"Now such necessary inbreeding cannot be take..."Now such necessary inbreeding cannot be taken for granted and will probably not happen in most cases."<br /><br />Or, alternatively, we are all so inbred that inbreeding has become mainstay.<br /><br />More seriously, people with a lot of children (who are also economically advantaged) still seem to have a good chance of transmitting large chunks of their (distinctive) genes into the future. People like Genghis Khan, or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_II_the_Strong" rel="nofollow">August der Starke</a>, perhaps.eurologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03440019181278830033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023805782808412230.post-75608845801696929122011-05-06T06:10:22.680+02:002011-05-06T06:10:22.680+02:00"I don't know what were the names of any ..."I don't know what were the names of any of my four great-grandmothers/fathers". <br /><br />I actually know all four of each, but that's because I've had realtions on each side research their own family tree. <br /><br />"Actually I estimate 150,000 variable base pairs, so following the cartoon's logic, only 18 generations would be needed to total dilution, so only 450 years are needed for (theoretical) total dilution". <br /><br />I used that fact to explain the fixation of mtDNA and Y-haps in this essay: <br /><br />http://humanevolutionontrial.blogspot.com/2009/06/human-evolution-on-trial-pedigrees.html<br /><br />And the names of my great grand parents are listed there.terrythttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17327062321100035888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023805782808412230.post-15365284194900928702011-05-06T00:22:47.661+02:002011-05-06T00:22:47.661+02:00Memory is even more weak. I guess a person only &q...Memory is even more weak. I guess a person only "lives" in a memory of a few relatives of him/her, once he/she dies, perhaps 100 years or even less. I don't know what were the names of any of my four great-grandmothers/fathers.᧞eandertalerinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12545788589913543964noreply@blogger.com