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,
Perhaps
the glow of love will grow’
with
every passing day.
Or we
may never meet again
But
then,… do you really believe;
by the
year 2025…
an aboriginal,
indigenous; Tribal, NATIVE;
CAN/WILL SURVIVE???
Ancestry' Isn't as Definitive as we'd Like to Think.
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.
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.
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