Brit-Am Anthropology and DNA Update
(February 9, 2020, 14 Shevet 5780)
Contents:
1. German Eugenic Effects Today
Are there any noticeable effects on Germany's population today from eugenics committed by the Nazi party?
by Toni Berisha.
2. Genes NOT Always Inherited BUT Transmitted. Mystery of our 145 'alien' genes: Scientists discover some DNA is NOT from our ancestors - and say it could change how we think about evolution
By MARK PRIGG
3. The origins of our 'foreign' genes by Alastair Crisp
4. ADAPTATION IN HUMANS
5. Irish DNA originated in Middle East and eastern Europe
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1. German Eugenic Effects Todayt
Are there any noticeable effects on Germany's population today from eugenics committed by the Nazi party?
https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-noticeable-effects-on-Germanys-population-today-from-eugenics-committed-by-the-Nazi-party
Toni Berisha, Albanian Living in Germany
Yes in fact there are. Germany is the only European country with such a high pedophilia percentage and sexual perversity. There are a large number of total population that suffers from some kind of mental illness. But still this things are a taboo among the Germans. It's a self censure of the society. If you talk about this in public especially if you are foreigner you will become automatically public enemy number one. Greeting
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2. Genes NOT Always Inherited BUT Transmitted
Mystery of our 145 'alien' genes: Scientists discover some DNA is NOT from our ancestors - and say it could change how we think about evolution
By MARK PRIGG FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2994187/Mystery-alien-genes-Scientists-discover-DNA-NOT-ancestors-say-change-think-evolution.html
14 March 2015
Extracts:
Humans contain 'alien' genes not passed on from our ancestors, researchers have discovered.
They say we acquired essential 'foreign' genes from microorganisms co-habiting their environment in ancient times.
The study challenges conventional views that animal evolution relies solely on genes passed down through ancestral lines - and says the process could still be going on.
The transfer of genes between organisms living in the same environment is known as horizontal gene transfer (HGT).
It is well known in single-celled organisms and thought to be an important process that explains how quickly bacteria evolve, for example, resistance to antibiotics.
HGT is thought to play an important role in the evolution of some animals, including nematode worms which have acquired genes from microorganisms and plants, and some beetles that gained bacterial genes to produce enzymes for digesting coffee berries.
It is well known in single-celled organisms and thought to be an important process that explains how quickly bacteria evolve, for example, resistance to antibiotics.
HGT is thought to play an important role in the evolution of some animals, including nematode worms which have acquired genes from microorganisms and plants, and some beetles that gained bacterial genes to produce enzymes for digesting coffee berries.
However, the idea that HGT occurs in more complex animals, such as humans, rather than them solely gaining genes directly from ancestors, has been widely debated and contested.
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3. The origins of our 'foreign' genes
by Alastair Crisp
Many animals, including humans, acquired essential 'foreign' genes from microorganisms co-habiting their environment in ancient times, according to research published in Genome Biology. Alastair Crisp, author on the paper, tells us more.
13 Mar 2015
Extract:
The researchers studied the genomes of 12 species of Drosophila or fruit fly, four species of nematode worm, and 10 species of primate, including humans.
They calculated how well each of their genes aligns to similar genes in other species to estimate how likely they were to be foreign in origin.
By comparing with other groups of species, they were able to estimate how long ago the genes were likely to have been acquired.
A number of genes, including the ABO blood group gene, were confirmed as having been acquired by vertebrates through HGT. The majority of the other genes were related to enzymes involved in metabolism.
In humans, they confirmed 17 previously-reported genes acquired from HGT, and identified 128 additional foreign genes in the human genome that have not previously been reported.
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4. ADAPTATION IN HUMANS
Which ethnicity that 90% of the world is unaware of is the most fascinating? by Jason Ford
Extract:
... Human adaptations is seen in the Moken people of Thailand and Myanmar. They have adapted to see perfectly underwater similar to how dolphins see.
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5. Irish DNA originated in Middle East and eastern Europe
https://www.eupedia.com/genetics/britain_ireland_dna.shtml
http://archaeology.best/irish-dna-originated-in-middle-east-and-eastern-europe/?utm_source=quora&utm_medium=referral
Extracts:
Genome analysis shows mass migration of Stone Age farmers from Fertile Crescent and Bronze Age settlers from eastern Europe was foundation of Celtic population
Excavated near Belfast in 1855, the bones of this farmer had lain in a Neolithic tomb chamber for 5,000 years. Her DNA has now been sequenced. Photograph: Daniel Bradley, Trinity College Dublin
Scientists from Dublin and Belfast have looked deep into Ireland's early history to discover a still-familiar pattern of migration: of stone age settlers with origins in the Fertile Crescent, and bronze age economic migrants who began a journey somewhere in eastern Europe.
The ancestors of the Stone Age farmers began their journey in the Bible lands, where agriculture first began, and arrived in Ireland perhaps via the southern Mediterranean. They brought with them cattle, cereals, ceramics and a tendency to black hair and brown eyes.
These settlers were followed by people, initially from the Pontic steppe of southern Russia, who knew how to mine for copper and work with gold, and who carried the genetic variant for a blood disorder called haemochromatosis, a hereditary genetic condition so common in Ireland that it is sometimes called Celtic disease.
These people also brought with them the inherited variation that permits the digestion of milk in maturity - much of the world becomes intolerant to the milk sugar lactose after infancy - and they may even have brought the language that became what is now Irish. Some of them, too, had blue eyes.