Question about genetics and ancestry..long complicated question?
so I’m curious for peoples opinions on this:
My make up is Irish, french-canadian, scotch, and abenaki, which is fine and all…but for some odd reason I am a very hairy guy. When I asked a teacher about it he said that means my ancestors were from somewhere where from a cold climate where excessive body hair was needed to survive- which confused me being predominantly irish…
where do you think this gene came from? something nordic or what? thanks for the time with the long winded question.
also, I researched my blood type (A negative) and the highest numbers of people with that blood type are from more nordic and germanic places? am I reading too much into it all?
For thousands of years, the human race has been very mixed. In fact, before the advent of the city/state and all that, tribes would “trade” females or males with the other tribes to keep balanced. This also meant that they all advanced at more or less the same rate.
After the advent of the city/state, this pattern continued. Meaning that no matter where in the world you are from, you have ancestors in common with everyone else, meaning don’t pay too much attention to “genes” and “characteristics”.
I would recommend a DNA test, both the yDNA (male-male) and mtDNA (female-female). I used www.familytreedna.com, one of the oldest and best, which also does the DNA testing for the National Geographics Genotype Program, which traces human migration patterns.
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