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bladup Jan 4, 2013 13:14:27
Replying to tiompan

tiompan wrote:
nigelswift wrote:
bladup wrote:
One day the irish will have it proved to them [genetics] that they're [their ancestors] from the same places that all the first settlers came from [as in the rest of these islands]
Don't hold your breath on that one
http://www.bionews.org.uk/page_70387.asp
The problem with that is that it is based on the genome of one individual . Extrapolating from that limited data set is dodgy . Oddly enough there was another earlier genome of a named Irish individual who was quite different ,as we might expect .
Yes using the genes of one person to explain over 4 million is so silly, it's clearly madness.

B bawn79
bawn79 Jan 4, 2013 13:56:10
Replying to bladup

There is a review of the book in this months Archaeology Ireland. I haven't got it in front of me but from memory i think it does go into genetics.

Just looking at the amazon link to the contents.

Chapter 8
Skulls, Blood and Genes - 215 - 243

So he must go into a bit. I'm looking forward to it anyhow - Archaeology Ireland give it must read status which I've never seen them give to any book before.