Re: IE & Uralic

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
wrote:

>
> So, then how did my ancestors who were in Belfast 300
> years ago end up with a J2 Y-chromosome? How did that
> chromosome get from Kurdistan to Ireland?
>
> --- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
> wrote:
> . . .
> > ============
> > Arnaud
> > Genetics suggests that 75% of people never moved
> > from the place they arrived when Homo Sapiens
> > settled in Europe 37 000 years ago.
> > These "great" migrations are fantasy.
> > ================

Genes can travel at the rate of one band or village per generation,
no migration needed..

OTOH, to clarify the original statement- genetics suggests that 75%
of the European gene pool comes from those Homo Sapiens who first
settled in Europe, which is not exactly the same meaning as that
phrased above.

Ned Smith