Brit-Am Anthropology and DNA Update (15 June 2016, 9 Sivan, 5776)
Contents:
1. Sexual Immorality, Low Birth Rates, And Religion
by William M. Briggs
Sexual Immorality List of Top 20 Nations.
2. King David's Genes by Nadine Epstein
3. Humans are still evolving: Huge DNA study tracks how the British have changed since the Romans were in charge   By Ryan O'Hare for MailOnline [forwarded to Brit-Am by Mark Williams]
4. Human beings who are DNA Chimeras with more than one father for the same person!!!!
5. Interesting Picture test. Left side - Right Side
6. More Births on Wednesday?
7. The secret history of Britain is written in our genes By Peter Donnelly
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1. Sexual Immorality, Low Birth Rates, And Religion
by William M. Briggs
Sexual Immorality List of Top 20 Nations.
http://wmbriggs.com/post/12166/
Extracts:
Each of the six individual items correlated to Birth Rate in the way you would imagine: greater approval of each aspect of Sexual Immorality led to lower Birth Rates. Acceptance of Homosexuality and Abortion had the tightest correlations, i.e. had the great diminution on Birth Rates; Extramarital Affairs had the least but still-noticeable effect.
Take your time with these plots. Notice that within majority Christian nations, increasing Christianity is associated with lower Sexual Immortality. France only has 63% Christian, a shocking fall from its once top spot. But then France was the birth place of the Revolution against human nature. Germany is close behind. The Philippines, and even several African countries like Kenya, Uganda, and Ghana are all highly Christian and have low Sexual Immorality.
 If these correlations are a guide, the less religious a country becomes the more sexual immoral it will be. It is not clear which drives which; probably both drive each other. And the more sexual immoral a culture is, the fewer babies it will produce.
Partial Extract: Countries and Relative Sexual Immorality. (2014) : Top 20 countries
Country Sexual Immorality
1. France 0.852.
2. Germany 0.831
3. Spain     0.821
4. Czech Republic 0.801
5. Canada  0.761
6. Britain   0.761
7. Australia 0.751
8. Italy 0.741
9. Japan 0.721
10. Argentina 0.672
11. Chile 0.671.84
12. Poland 0.631
13. Greece 0.631
14. Israel 0.622
15. United States0.622
16. Russia 0.591
17. Venezuela 0.582
18. Mexico 0.552
19. South Korea 0.551
20. China 0.551
Brit-Am Comment:
The above figures are of interest BUT they may be misleading to some degree.
The French are not that immoral in practice when compared to other Western nations.
Mexico is low on the list but in the USA Mexican women have the highest incidence of Non-Parental births.
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2. King David's Genes by Nadine Epstein
http://www.momentmag.com/king-davids-genes-2/?gclid=Cj0KEQjw0dy4BRCuuL_e5MeqmNABEiQAq8iNI57RoL7-a0RHGw04SxY5PpMQjz9Ko8OJw7SKqecAhqAaAnJB8P8HAQ
Extracts:
Descendants of the exilarchs and other nesi'im fanned out across Mesopotamia, the Levant, Egypt and the Mediterranean basin in search of new lands in which to practice their faith. Some stayed in Spain, Portugal and Italy, and from there migrated to Europe. Like other Jews, they followed varying routes to modernity, separating into Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Mizrahi and other groups. Some families, especially rabbinic ones, kept careful track of their pedigrees, passing the tradition of royal descent from generation to generation. But through the centuries, plagued by perennial migrations and persecution, the vast majority of King David's descendants, a number estimated to be in the millions, lost knowledge of the line.
In Yashir Moshe, Rabbi Moshe Dayan listed the 85 generations of males between King David and himself. Solomon ben Azariah was generation 54, meaning that the family had been living in Aleppo since from around 1300 CE.Â
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3. Humans are still evolving: Huge DNA study tracks how the British have changed since the Romans were in charge
By Ryan O'Hare for MailOnline [forwarded to Brit-Am by Mark Williams]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3596536/Humans-evolving-Huge-DNA-study-tracks-British-changed-Romans-charge.html
18 May 2016
Extracts:
Analysis shows how the British population has changed over 2,000 years
Certain copies of genes have spread throughout the population over time
....the British population has subtly changed since Roman rule, 2,000 years ago.
The results have revealed that on average, the population has leaned towards becoming taller, fairer, and better able to digest milk.
... the Stanford team used a new analytical technique to track subtle changes in genes back over 100 generations, equivalent to roughly two thousand years, and link them to physical traits.
They were able to show which traits spread through the population most rapidly, with the different copies of genes popping up more and more.
Analysis from genomes of more than 3,000 people in the UK showed that over the past 2,000 years, copies of genes for lactase, the enzyme which helps us to digest milk, blue eyes and blond hair have become more common in the population
According to science Nature, when taken together, the changes indicate a shift towards larger brains and the subtle effect it has had on our bodies, with traits such as larger head sizes for babies, wider hips and women starting menstruating later. But more research is needed to say for sure.Â
The new study has revealed the subtle genetic changes across the population over roughly 100 generations, which stretches back to when then bricks of Hadrian's Wall (pictured) were still being laid by the Romans
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4. Human beings who are DNA Chimeras with more than one father for the same person!!!!
Chimera (genetics)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)
One Person, Two Sets of DNA: The Strange Case of the Human Chimera
http://pictorial.jezebel.com/one-person-two-sets-of-dna-the-strange-case-of-the-hu-1689290862
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5. Interesting Picture test. Left side - Right Side
http://braintest.sommer-sommer.com/en/
Brit-Am Comment:
I found that when I looked purposely at the picture the dancer was moving in a clockwise direction. When I looked away, or from the side, or stopped concentrating the movement tended to become counter-clockwise.
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6. More Births on Wednesday?
Wednesday has more births on average than any other day of the week, 15.4% more then any other day. Sunday is the slowest day.
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7. The secret history of Britain is written in our genes By Peter Donnelly
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/11483608/The-secret-history-of-Britain-is-written-in-our-genes.html
Extracts:
One distinct genetic group can only be seen in what is now West Yorkshire. This is deeply puzzling. But the historians and archaeologists in our project eventually worked out that after the decline of the Roman Empire there was a Celtic Kingdom, called Elmet, exactly in this region. It seems the genetic patterns we see today have been shaped by the geopolitical landscape of millennia gone by.
Another Celtic Kingdom, Rheged, matched a genetic group in modern Cumbria. There were also separate Celtic Kingdoms at that time in North and South Wales (Gwynedd and Dyfed), where we found different genetic groups.
As for the Kingdom of Dalriada, which flourished in 550AD in what is now Northern Ireland and Western Scotland, we found a contemporary genetic group matching that, too.
There are separate genetic groups in Cornwall and Devon, aligning almost exactly with modern county boundaries.
So exact are these matches that we were even able to identify slip-ups in our work. We found that some people from Lancashire came from a genetic group seen only in north-east Scotland. On checking, it turned out that the individuals were from Blackburn, Aberdeenshire, and not, as we had mistakenly plotted them, Blackburn, Lancashire.
The genetic group covering Northern Ireland, southern Scotland and parts of northern England is likely to reflect the Ulster Plantations of the early 1600s, when people from those parts of Scotland and northern England moved into Ireland.
And we actually see two genetic groups in south-west Wales. These are likely to be the consequence of linguistic separation. For 1,000 years the Landsker line marked the boundary between English-speaking peoples in south-west Pembrokeshire (often called 'little England beyond Wales') and those who spoke Welsh. The genetic groups we found fall either side of this line.
Anglo-Saxons, from modern Germany, moved into what is now eastern England from 450-600 AD, after the collapse of the Roman Empire. Anglo-Saxon DNA can clearly be seen in modern England (but not in Wales) and is responsible for 20 to 40 per cent of the genetic ancestry there. The remainder comes from the people already present before the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons. As a result, we can show that Anglo-Saxons intermarried with, rather than slaughtered and replaced, existing populations.
But we don't see a single 'Celtic' genetic group. The regions with Celtic cultural and linguistic traditions (Cornwall, Wales, Scotland and Northern Island) are very different from each other. Indeed, the Cornish are more similar genetically to the English than they are to the Welsh, Scottish, or Northern Irish.
In contrast, many of the other major invasions of the Britain have left very little genetic trace. We see little genetic evidence of the Roman conquest, nor of the Danish Viking control of large parts of England from the 9th century (the 'Danelaw'), nor of the Norman Conquest. These invasions have had a major impact on our history and culture, but not on our gene pool.
But we have not learnt everything. In fact, our research has revealed a great mystery. We found evidence of another major wave of migrations, very likely over many hundreds of years, about which effectively nothing is known. It is probably the biggest single contributor to DNA now in England and much of Scotland, but it has had no impact on Wales. It must have occurred later than the earliest migrations, because unlike those ones the DNA hasn't spread everywhere. But it doesn't match any of the migrations we know from history.