It would be interesting to know which modern populations the DNA shows relation to. This is not mentioned in the article and the Nature article is behind a paywall so I don't know whether it was discussed there.
Only the matrilineal mitochondrial DNA was listed in the Nature article. The haplogroups are listed below. haplogroup.org is the primary source of location. If they didn't list one, then I use Wikipedia. If that also doesn't list it, I've given the peak levels listed by FamilyTreeDNA.
(H originated in northern Spain) H1 - Basques, Iberian Peninsula, North Africans H5 - Western Caucasus
It's not mentioned on a first and second reading - I'd need to print it and take a red pen and highlighter for a 3rd reading. It doesn't look as if they were in the least interested in the question. Or if they were interested, then there is a paucity of good data on the local population. Or (quite plausible) that work is in progress at the moment and will eventually be published if considered worthwhile.
This being Gloucestershire, where are you going to get "representative" "local" samples? Multiple popula
Four men descended from non-lineage fathers and mothers who also reproduced with lineage male individuals, suggesting that some men adopted the children of their reproductive partners by other men into their patriline
Or perhaps Daddy didn't know. It's not like they could just go out and get a paternity test.
Or perhaps Daddy did know, and liked the feel of his 3rd-cousin's sloppy seconds.
From the low degree of interrelatedness, regardless of what the penises and their attached brains thought, the people who got pregnant were very non-random in who they got pregnant by, and avoided getting pregnant by two too-closely-related men.
Maybe "You and I have had a fight. Let's make up by swapping wives until both are pregnant, then raising each other's children." It might sound odd to us, but as a way of preventing fe
Only the matrilineal mitochondrial DNA was listed in the Nature article. The haplogroups are listed below. haplogroup.org is the primary source of location. If they didn't list one, then I use Wikipedia. If that also doesn't list it, I've given the peak levels listed by FamilyTreeDNA.
(H originated in northern Spain)
H1 - Basques, Iberian Peninsula, North Africans
H5 - Western Caucasus
J1c1 - Basques, Denmark, Italy
J1c1b1 - Basques, Denmark, Italy
J2b1a - Scandinavia, Germany
(K1a is most common in Belgium and Ar
This being Gloucestershire, where are you going to get "representative" "local" samples? Multiple popula
Four men descended from non-lineage fathers and mothers who also reproduced with lineage male individuals, suggesting that some men adopted the children of their reproductive partners by other men into their patriline
Or perhaps Daddy didn't know. It's not like they could just go out and get a paternity test.
From the low degree of interrelatedness, regardless of what the penises and their attached brains thought, the people who got pregnant were very non-random in who they got pregnant by, and avoided getting pregnant by two too-closely-related men.
Maybe "You and I have had a fight. Let's make up by swapping wives until both are pregnant, then raising each other's children." It might sound odd to us, but as a way of preventing fe