Brit-Am Anthropology and DNA Update
4 July, 2022; 5 Tammuz, 5782.
Contents:
1. Modern Europe's genetic history starts in Stone Age
2. New Findings: Environmental Influence on Genes.
3. Misleading Criticism of Creationism and British Isrealitism. Brit-Am Criticism.
4. Coast of giants: Footprints in Spain confirm coexistence of massive aurochs with Neanderthals. Brit-Am Comment -proof of Human Giants?
5. Where science meets fiction: the dark history of eugenics.
6. A Large Percentage of the British are of Irish Descent!
DNA of the nation revealed...and we're not as 'British' as we think.
7. MtDNA (female-transmitted) also from the Father!
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1. Modern Europe's genetic history starts in Stone Age
https://aratta.wordpress.com/2014/06/27/modern-europes-genetic-history-starts-in-stone-age/
First came the settlers from the east, belonging to the vast archeological horizon known as the Corded Ware Culture (CWC). About three hundred years later they were joined in Central Europe by migrants from the Atlantic Fringe, belonging to the Bell Beaker Culture (BBC). During the early Bronze Age, the CWC disappeared, and was replaced by the Unetice Cultre (UC), which briefly overlapped with the late BBC.
Ancient DNA recovered to date suggests that the Bell Beakers were genetically the archetypal Western Europeans, characterized by Western European-specific mtDNA H subclades and Y-chromosome haplogroup R1b. Interestingly, R1b has also been found among remains of aboriginals from the Canary Islands, just off the coast of northwest Africa. It might be a stretch to attribute this directly to the Bell Beakers, but they were certainly capable sailors, so perhaps not?
On the other hand, the CWC and UC populations appear to have been Eastern Europeans to the core, with low levels of mtDNA H and showing mtDNA affinities to Bronze Age Kurgan groups of Kazakhstan and South Siberia. We also know that Y-chromosome haplogroup R1a was present among the CWC of Germany, and it reached frequencies of almost 100% among the Kurgan samples from South Siberia and the European-like mummies of the Tarim Basin in what is now Western China.
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2. New Findings: Environmental Influence on Genes.
(a) Challenging dogmas: How transgenerational epigenetics reshapes our views on life
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jez.2465
Harrison D. Wang,Patrick Allard
First published: 26 April 2021 https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.2465
Abstract
The emergence of the field of transgenerational epigenetics inheritance (TEI) has profoundly reshaped our understanding of the relationships between environment, soma, and germ cells as well as of heredity. TEI refers to the changes in chromatin state, gene expression, and/or phenotypes that are transmitted across several generations without involving changes to the DNA sequences. TEI has direct connections with, and feeds from, the fields of molecular biology, genetics, developmental biology, and reproductive biology, among others. However, the expansion of TEI-related research, has profoundly reshaped boundaries within each field and often led to the erosion of theories and concepts considered as tenets of biology. We first explore how the molecularization of biology has shifted the definition of epigenetics to include the notion of heredity and how epigenetics has refined our understanding of the central dogma of biology. The demonstrated transfer of environmental information from soma to germ cell through extracellular vesicles and subsequent alteration of health outcomes in offspring has put a definite end to the long-held principle of the Weismann barrier. TEI has also simultaneously led to the revival of the inheritance of acquired characteristics while further eroding the concept of an epigenetic 'blank slate' in mammals. Using an historical framework, and via the exploration of central studies in the field, in this perspective article, we will draw a compelling argument for the revolutionary aspect of TEI in biology.
(b) The barrier has been breached!
Making a fool out of Professor Wise-man
by Robert Carter
https://creation.com/breaching-the-weismann-barrier
Also, what happens when environmental cues cause the production of specific RNAs? If the mother or father is starving, or sick, or happy and well fed, they would be expected to be producing different RNAs. These would serve as a source of both epigenetic regulation and as templates for Pol? DNA repair. Thus, the environment plays a possibly significant role in both the form of the adult organism and the rate and type of mutations that might accumulate in any lineage.
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3. Misleading Criticism of Creationism and British Isrealitism.
Creationism, Noah's Flood, And Race
by Paul Braterman
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2019/03/creationism-noahs-flood-and-race.html
Extracts:
The Christian Identity movement, which has strong historical links to the KKK, is closely related to the British Israelites. Both Identity and the British Israelites regard the Anglo-Celtic race as God's favoured people, the true descendants of Israel, and maintain that the inferior (i.e. non-White) races were created before Adam. Similar separate origin beliefs are also held by other fringe groups, such as Aryan Nations, which shares a website with the Church of Jesus Christ Christian, and maintains that 'The Canaanite Jews [i.e. Jews] are a literal descendent of Satan and the natural enemy of our white Christian race.' Aryan Nations is affiliated with the Aryan Brotherhood, the most powerful White gang in US prisons.
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Brit-Am Criticism
British Israelites were mostly pro-Zionists and pro-Jewish. A small marginal fringe among the BIWF however had had anti-Jewish tendencies.
Among other faults with the article it tries to divorce Naziism from Evolution Theory.
This is misleading.
Some of the Nazis, perhaps Hitler himself, may have been closer to an out-of-space, gods-from-heaven approach for the origins of the Nordic Aryans.
Nevertheless, in principle they all agreed with Evolution, used Evolutionary racist terminology, were supported by German intellectuals who preached evolution, emerged from a milieu of Evolutionary Racism, and were closer to Evolutionary Theory than anything else.
Even though the article is grossly misleading it has some points of possible interest.
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4. Coast of giants: Footprints in Spain confirm coexistence of massive aurochs with Neanderthals. Brit-Am Comment - Proof of Human Giants?
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2022-06-19/the-coast-of-the-giants-footprints-in-the-gulf-of-cadiz-confirm-the-coexistence-of-massive-aurochs-with-neanderthals-and-other-large-animals.html
A footprint on the ground is much more than a mark. It can reveal information about what or who left it, what it was doing at that time, what the environment was like, where it was wandering, its weight, its size and its habits. For researchers studying prehistoric times, in the absence of biological remains, footprints are the only way to fill in the blank spaces left by time. A new study led by geologists Carlos Neto de Carvalho, Fernando Muniz Guinea and Luis Caceres Puro, from the universities of Lisbon, Seville and Huelva, respectively, and published in Scientific Reports, has revealed the discovery of traces of aurochs (Bos primigenius). These animals, with a height of up to two meters (6 ft 5 in) and weighing 1,500 kilograms (3,300 pounds), left tracks a little over 100,000 years ago on the southwestern coast of Spain.
The entire Gulf of Cadiz was already known to have been a refuge for the megafauna that were contemporaries of Neanderthals. In Huelva, the same team has discovered traces of Palaeoloxodon antiquus, straight-tusked elephants similar to the current-day ones, but up to four meters (13ft) tall, wild boars (Sus scrofa scrofa) that tripled the size of those that exist today and weighed up to 300 kilos (660lb), giant red deer, wolves and other animals.... The aurochs (Bos primigenius), according to Neto de Carvalho, are the ancestors of cattle (Bos taurus) and have been extinct since 1627.
The Portuguese researcher mentions another especially relevant finding in the same area. 'An impression of a jointed foot 31 cm (12 in) long was found at Cape Trafalgar. This does not necessarily mean that the foot, and, consequently, the hominid that produced it [a Neanderthal?] had such large proportions, since the flexibility of the human foot during locomotion on a sandy dune substrate normally translates into a footprint larger than the foot, especially on sloped surfaces. However, it is a rare find that requires attention. The Neanderthals are part of our genetic ancestors, and they disappeared during the last glacial period, except in the Iberian Peninsula, which was their last refuge. Traces of them are still very rare and give precise indications about their behavior, the population's structure and their ecology.
The Portuguese researcher also provides an explanation for the animals' massive size: 'The period of megafauna included aurochs, wild boars and giant deer, as well as one of the largest elephants, the Palaeoloxon antiquus, of which there are records of tracks from Portugal to Cadiz. The period came after thousands of years of abundance of food resources in an Iberian Peninsula with a warmer, more humid climate than the current one. Food for herbivorous animals was widely available in the forests of the time, especially along rivers such as the Guadalquivir, whose estuaries, marshes and lagoons would have been the aurochs, preferred habitat. They were the main source of food for supercarnivores such as the lion, leopard, hyena and wolf, as well as for our ancestors, the Neanderthals. The pressure from predators may have had evolutionary consequences, in the sense that natural selection gave priority to larger animals who could defend themselves against these large predators.
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Brit-Am Commentary:
Aurochs were giant wild cows now extinct. The auroch in Mesopotamia was known as the "RIMU." This is the Hebrew "Raem," sometimes identified as the unicorn. We are of the impression that a sub-species of the auroch had one horn, or two horns that often grew together and merged with each other. This is the unicorn.
The above article describes the finding of giant aurochs, giant deer (as large as elephants), giant elephants, giant wild boars (three times larger than present ones), and a giant human (Neanderthal) footprint, 12 inches long. It is however denied that the owner of the footprint was a giant but rather he left such a large print since he was probably running! If however one finds so many other giant animals there why should there also not be a giant human among them?
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5. Where science meets fiction: the dark history of eugenics
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jun/19/where-science-meets-fiction-the-dark-history-of-eugenics
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6. A Large Percentage of the British are of Irish Descent!
DNA of the nation revealed...and we're not as 'British' as we think
https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/international/press-releases/DNA-of-the-nation-revealedand-were-not-as-British-as-we-think#:
Extracts:
Study looked at the nation's ethnicity dating back 500 years from 26 global regions.
Reveals the genetic make-up of the average UK resident, and variations in English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish genetic make-ups
The genetic make-up of the nation has been revealed - with Yorkshire proven to be the most 'British' region in the UK, while London is the most ethnically diverse and the East Midlands the most Scandinavian region in the UK.
They found that the average UK resident is 36.94% British (Anglo Saxon), 21.59% Irish (Celtic) and 19.91% Western European (the region covered today by France and Germany).
Following these top three regional ethnicities in the average UK resident are Scandinavia (9.20%), the Iberian Peninsula (Spain/Portugal) (3.05%), and Italy and Greece (1.98%).
English people have significantly less Irish ancestry (just 20% of their genetic make-up) on average compared to people living in Scotland (43.84%), Wales (31.99%) and Northern Ireland (48.49%). English residents do however have the highest amount of Scandinavian (9.39%) and Western European (French/German) (20.45%) ancestry.
Scottish residents have the highest amount of Finnish/Northwest Russian (1.31%) heritage, which is explained by their geographic proximity.
Welsh residents have the highest proportion of ancestry from the Iberian Peninsula (Spain/Portugal) in the UK (3%).
Within England, the North East is home to people with the most Irish (Celtic) ancestry (27.58%).
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7. MtDNA (female-transmitted) also from the Father!
Linkage disequilibrium and recombination in hominid mitochondrial DNA
P Awadalla 1, A Eyre-Walker, J M Smith
Affiliations expand
PMID: 10617471
DOI: 10.1126/science.286.5449.2524
Abstract
The assumption that human mitochondrial DNA is inherited from one parent only and therefore does not recombine is questionable. Linkage disequilibrium in human and chimpanzee mitochondrial DNA declines as a function of the distance between sites. This pattern can be attributed to one mechanism only: recombination
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