I seem to remember reading somewhere (?) that we are all descended from Charlemagne and Genghis Khan! Or is that more hyperbole? Rose Norton Bierton 6008 -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Gray via Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 8:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [G] DNA conclusions? A recent claim in the UK's Daily Telegraph - as pointed to by today's "Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter" - was that half of today's European men are descended from a single man who lived some 4,000 years ago. Leaving aside what happened to all the boys descended from the many thousands of other men alive at that time - let alone this man's close relations (mass genocide?) - how can people make such sweeping generalisations based on the DNA of just 1,200 people? I could better understand if the study was of a few million people. The same goes for this "Eve" person we are all meant to be descended from. Was she the only female alive at the time? Did she wonder around Africa killing off all the others? Chris _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message