Infinite Monkeycage, Radio 4 comedy programme (that does still contain a lot of facts) explains how pretty much everyone who is alive now is descended from everyone who existed in the 10th century and had descendants. Quite an interesting programme after it gets past the wisecracks.
Think you are related to 10th century Vikings? Yeah, just like everyone else.
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1 in 30 (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-claim-direct-descendants-Norse-warriors.html) isn`t really everyone else is it?
I think the shetlanders are pretty much entire viking ? They reccon 25% of people on earth have a link to gengis kahn, now thats a genetic endowment.
1 in 30 ... isn`t really everyone else is it?
You might have more call to think you were descended from Vikings.
I watched a program some years back where they took four unrelated chaps from London and tested there DNA to work out how far back they had a common 'male' ancestor.
They were a white bloke, a black bloke, a chap whose recent ancestors came from the Indian subcontinent and a chap with Japanese ancestry.
White bloke and black bloke had a common ancestor five hundred years ago, white bloke, black bloke and Japanese bloke had a common ancestor twenty thousand years ago and all four had a common ancestor thirty thousand years ago.
As we say in Scotland "we are all Jock Tamson's Bairns" (of one family).
