DNA rewrites history for African-Americans [and others]

[MiChuhSuh]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/200 ... ests_x.htm

I would copy and paste the article but there's a table in there that won't work on here.

[TeeKay]

thats pretty good article there.

[bao]

thanks for sharing, i always love a good read. i really enjoy reading stories about african americans tracing their dna to a specific african nation because their ancestry is such a mystery.

[TeeKay]

How much do these people pay for one of these?

[ManifestTruth]

Between $400 and $600.

[MiChuhSuh]

^ Not really that much

How much do these people pay for one of these?

click on the link, around the bottom it has more resources. the best one, especially for price, is the National Geographic one, for around $100

[ManifestTruth]

Good info Micusuh..

[Tre]

^ Not really that much

How much do these people pay for one of these?

click on the link, around the bottom it has more resources. the best one, especially for price, is the National Geographic one, for around $100 https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/participate.html

Good Post!

[EmperorPenguin]

Projects like these are good, but they do give people a false sense. You can only be traced as far back as they have samples for, and those samples are taken from DNA in certain locations. That doesn't mean that your family necessarily was BORN there, they just happen to be there when DNA was taken. Likewise, if tomorrow they find a old skeleton that is found in China that they can extract DNA from and it shows that all people are some how related that doesn't necessarily mean we're all chinese. It just means we can be traced to a body found in China during whatever period it can be dated for. It's almost impossible to factor in people travelling. It's why a good portion of african americans get traced back to Europe with it meeting a dead end. It doesn't mean they're european, just simply their ancestors were in Europe at some point. Again, great projects they're just far from perfected yet.

[Tre]

Why not just spit the truth? Only black people (African Americans and other victims of the African Diaspora) can actually trace their roots back to Africa. You know why?? Because only black people are indigenous to Africa… all a white man can say is that civilization started there and/or humans originated from there!