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Tuesday, 7 February 2017

Do you Really Believe; That Anywhere, on this Planet; by the year 2025… an Aboriginal, Indigenous; Tribal, NATIVE; CAN/WILL SURVIVE???

It's not for me to say;
there may be.
It's not for me to say;
it cannot be.
Oh, but here for the moment;
May be; You can hold fast;
dream that; well it; will last.
As far as I can see this is our world;
And, speaking just for me,
it's OURS to share.
Perhaps the glow of love will grow’
with every passing day.
Or we may never meet again
But then,… do you really believe;
That anywhere, on this planet;
by the year 2025…
an aboriginal, indigenous; Tribal, NATIVE;

 CAN/WILL SURVIVE??? 

Ancestry' Isn't as Definitive as we'd Like to Think.

DNA can tell us all kinds of things.
Genetic information can be used to uniquely identify a specific person using just a hair or a few drops of saliva. That data can also tell you if you have certain genetic ailments or are at an increased risk for others.
But one of the most common services provided by companies who do consumer DNA testing is an analysis of your "ancestry" based on your genetics, and there are real problems with that idea. That's because these things are concepts; or ideas; that humans have created, and they don't have a basis in genetics.
Genes can identify a person and find related people, but there's no genetic meaning of race or even ancestry — just because DNA can say you are related to a large number of people who live in a place doesn't mean you are genetically from that place. Then also, what ancestry are we interested in? Based on current populations or ancient? Because it is easy to say that one is very similar to inhabitants of Greece today but much harder to say that they are similar to ancient Greeks. In other words, sure, you can say that the genetic markers in your database are similar to those of the people from a certain place that are now in the database of this genetic testing company. It doesn't necessarily answer the more fundamental questions that many have, which are "What am I, who am I; where am I from?" DNA cannot say, you or your ancestors were ever aboriginal; or INDIGENOUS, to anywhere. 
Nov. 20, 2015-Consumer DNA testing companies compare markers in customers' genes to markers from other people around the world THAT ARE IN THEIR DATABASES; to give you as close an approximation to your "ancestry" as they can. They use those markers ( Canadians with a “French” or “First  Nations” sounding name  can almost rest assured they will be found to have at least 10% “Indigenous”  genes.
Indigenous to where is never explained. That is because DNA will never be able to tell you exactly where your ancestors lived or [what race or social group] they identified with. We don’t have to look back very far in time before we each have more ancestors than we have sections of DNA, and this means we have ancestors from whom we have inherited no DNA. 











What do you believe massive immigration, giving every one refugee status is all about???~~~Al (Alex-Alexander) D Girvan

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