The DNA Hoax by Ancestry dot com...

[toubab]

And your still so confused you revert to name calling. You must be a liberal.

You're so confused you don't even realize you started the name calling, bitch.

 

[imalickin]

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[kdawgaz]

Imalickin

Imalickin ...... you are ignorant when you are not aware of the facts.

Imalickin .... you are stupid when you are aware of the facts and still don't get it.



LMAO

 

[Tigersman]

The Ancestry.com commercial that gets me is the one where the girl claims to have found out she is part African. The last I looked Africa was a continent comprised of several nations. The African continent was settled by Arabs, French, English, Dutch and the native population so is the girl saying she is a mix of these or using the wrong name for her origin.

 

[toubab]

The Ancestry.com commercial that gets me is the one where the girl claims to have found out she is part African. The last I looked Africa was a continent comprised of several nations. The African continent was settled by Arabs, French, English, Dutch and the native population so is the girl saying she is a mix of these or using the wrong name for her origin.

I believe they always break down the results into which specific areas of a continent show positive results, often specific countries.

 

[Ishmael]

DNA, have we come to the point that a simple saliva swab can be turned into a percentage map of your racial makeup?

Genetic Ancestry Tests Mostly Hype, Scientists Say

It would seem not, according to Deborah Bolnick of the University of Texas in Austin.

What led me to think not was one of Ancestry.com's commercials where the woman says she sent in her DNA and it came back the she was 26% Native American and she had no idea. My question is, is she stupid or was she adopted? If she knew both parents, which the commercial doesn't say, she would have known as she gets half of each parents DNA, which means that either one parent was 52% Native American or both parents were 26% Native American. She should have had a clue.

If she was adopted these test can only tell her about her distant ancestry, not about her mother or father and where they are from.

Most geneticists will tell you to save your money, because you won't really learn anything useful about your recent ancestry. Only about your distant ancestry.

Ya gotta love it;

But more than a dozen scientists from various backgrounds say such "recreational genetics" or "vanity tests" have significant scientific limitations and rely on misconceptions about race and genetics.

As if there are only two or three dozen scientists involved in genetic research. How enlightening. Perhaps the results are skewed by who you had to eat the night before? I smell sour grapes.

Saliva tests are not the end all, be all, but over a population they're fairly accurate. On an individual basis not so much so. If an individual wants to spend their money on one of those tests, it's their business and none of those "more than a dozen scientists' business........or yours.

Ishmael

 

[toubab]

Ya gotta love it;



As if there are only two or three dozen scientists involved in genetic research. How enlightening. Perhaps the results are skewed by who you had to eat the night before? I smell sour grapes.

Saliva tests are not the end all, be all, but over a population they're fairly accurate. On an individual basis not so much so. If an individual wants to spend their money on one of those tests, it's their business and none of those "more than a dozen scientists' business........or yours.

Ishmael

My test results indicated 99% European, and I'm pretty sure that's reasonably accurate based on all the information I have about my relatives and ancestors, plus my physical appearance.

 

[oggbashan]

Yay! A recent study summarised in The Times today shows that Neanderthals were much brighter than has been assumed. They were making tools, erecting massive buildings, using fire and basic chemistry, and painting caves hundreds of thousands of years before homo sapiens learned those skills.

Between 1% and 4% of most European people's DNA is Neanderthal.

 

[toubab]

Yay! A recent study summarised in The Times today shows that Neanderthals were much brighter than has been assumed. They were making tools, erecting massive buildings, using fire and basic chemistry, and painting caves hundreds of thousands of years before homo sapiens learned those skills.

Between 1% and 4% of most European people's DNA is Neanderthal.

I've been amused for decades at all the attempts by scientists, at least the vast majority of them, to explain away the larger brain size of Neanderthals compared to modern humans.

 

[MatthewVett]

From what I read it looks like the dna labs divide the world into regions and collect genetic markers common inside those regions and rare everywhere else.

I have no ideas what my percentages are but I know my genealogy back to 300 BC or so. So I estimate I'm 1/4th British (English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh), 1/4th French, 1/8th German (Austrian and Swiss), and 1/8th Mediterranean (Spanish, Italian, Jew, Persian, Greek, and Egyptian). 3 percent or so Cherokee.

300 BCE? Considering the massive amounts of war, invasion, colonization, and migration that would happen in those regions, I kind of doubt this.

 

[seamus221]

DNA, have we come to the point that a simple saliva swab can be turned into a percentage map of your racial makeup?

Genetic Ancestry Tests Mostly Hype, Scientists Say

It would seem not, according to Deborah Bolnick of the University of Texas in Austin.

What led me to think not was one of Ancestry.com's commercials where the woman says she sent in her DNA and it came back the she was 26% Native American and she had no idea. My question is, is she stupid or was she adopted? If she knew both parents, which the commercial doesn't say, she would have known as she gets half of each parents DNA, which means that either one parent was 52% Native American or both parents were 26% Native American. She should have had a clue.

If she was adopted these test can only tell her about her distant ancestry, not about her mother or father and where they are from.

Most geneticists will tell you to save your money, because you won't really learn anything useful about your recent ancestry. Only about your distant ancestry.

I was told my family was from the borderlands near Scotland, I just had to wonder how they could do that with a DNA sample from my dog?
And now I know!

 

[ryan8558]

I was told my family was from the borderlands near Scotland, I just had to wonder how they could do that with a DNA sample from my dog?
And now I know!

Does your dog look like this?

http://cdn2-www.dogtime.com/assets/uploads/2011/01/file_23082_scottish-terrier.jpg

 

[toubab]

Could be like this

https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.M5ef0235b57358c07b8f8ce8f6bb26bc8H0&pid=15.1&P=0&w=300&h=300

 

[ryan8558]

or any listed on this page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dog_breeds_originating_in_Scotland

 

[toubab]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg0CQKQWLJI