A Genography Story
Since I seem to have inadvertantly become a top google-ranked authority on genography simply by putting up a single post on National Geographic’s genography project, I feel obliged to point out an article I came across on the Genetics and Public Health Blog. The article is an account by a Chinese woman who takes a home DNA test and learns, rather to her surprise, that she has some European roots.
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“So if some ancestor of mine managed to father half of Europe, why aren’t any of my features even vaguely Caucasian?”
Said Mr Greenspan, “The way someone looks, is only tightly linked to someone in the first few generation of when two different peoples have children. After four to six generations, the appearances that we notice in humans — the part above what we call ’skin deep’ — isn’t recognisable.
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