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Posted by SLRT on Tue Dec 17 10:38:51 2013, in response to Re:, posted by AlM on Tue Dec 17 10:13:34 2013. Now that we have genetic testing, we can test that proposition.One of my daughters did the "23 and me" thing (though I discouraged it). They only had her dna swab and no questionnaire that could give them hints as to her ethnicity. It came back that her ethnic ancestry was 46% Ashkenazi Jew and 46% Northern European* ancestry, with the "other" 8% being less determinate (like "2.8% Neanderthal"). I thought that was remarkable; I expected some more "mixing" in there. I know that is a ridiculously small sample, but it's food for thought since it is the end-product of many centuries of ancestry. It may be changing now, but even people in the U.S. have tended to prefer mates close to their own regional background. -------------- *IIRC, they defined the Northern European as being a swath from the UK through France and the low countrues to Germany. |
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