Since we share so much of our DNA with chimps (and a good percentage with daffodils) isn’t arguing about who had it off with whom in the past a bit like arguing about the number of angels that can fit on the point of a needle?
In reality it’s as arcane (and probably of less use) than the sort of stuff to be found typically at
http://www.newadvent.org/summa/1052.htm
Does it
really matter a hot damm where our genes were forged? Surely the thing that is important is what we are like today.
Anyway, I LIKE Portugal.
And the Portuguese.
OK they’re a bit ready to splash olive oil onto anything they intend to eat, or otherwise use in some biological process and they, like many other Mediterranean folk, tend to sling anything they’ve caught in a fishing net into a cauldron, add tomatoes, garlic, onions and loads of yet more olive oil, and serve it up at any time of day or night, but so what?
It’s not so much where you’ve come from. It’s useful and even interesting to know, but what really matters is what you’re like, and where you’re going.
And that takes us back to the thread title, it also provides an answer to the question the thread raises, and that answer is a resounding NO.