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Tamakore: I agree with your comments, but I think we should keep separate those physiological changes that have occurred evolutionarily (is that a word?) over a great span of years and the behavioral changes (extended childhood for example) we've seen developing since, say, the end of WWII, that...

Navy fighters , F-4 and F-14, seven cruises in harms way, so I’m not shy, but I don’t accept nasty ad hominem attacks. BTW, my father and father-in-law are both career military. One son is an Army Ranger, the other a tech in the Air Force. How do you like them apples?

Big guy, you are way out of bounds.

Pater, okay. I was afraid you were going down the trail that "we Caucasians are better than anyone because we're G2a." I'm glad to see that I was wrong. I don't know what to make of the Nature article (I'm just not knowledgeable enough to have an intelligent opinion) and I haven't paid to read...

Pater, I think you're agreeing with me. I do not dispute that Caucasians may share physical traits and may be disproportionally MMA type fighters, but that is because they share a basic Caucasian genetic type, that is an autosomal type. Y-DNA is just one small part of your background. I may have...

I think we should be careful making determinations about the past when, in actuality, we know so little. Some room should be left for doubt in any conclusion we come to. There are several means by which the G2a population in Europe may have declined. Wholesale slaughter is one, and it might be...

Well, I'm G2a-Z726 and I'm no fighter. I'm the tall skinny guy who uses humor to try to defuse the situation. And . . . since your Y-DNA only represents a very small fraction of your biological inheritance I can't see how this proposition can be true. On the other hand, MMA fighters from the...

My own data on the subject . . . Just a couple of years ago I found a cousin (same YDNA) in England via DNA test and paper research. We share a most recent common ancestor who was born c1600. That’s a lot of faithful wives in the succeeding years.

Didn't Jane Goodall show that chimps made war? I believe she saw this when a large chimp group broke in two, followed by the larger group attacking, and killing some number of the smaller group.

There are an interesting number of news articles recently in the US about a supposed return of the Millennial generation to small rural towns (or at least they are not leaving). The impetus seems to be a general disillusionment with the stresses of big cities (high cost, crime, filth). This...

Thanks. I'm on the L497 thread, so our lines separated early, G2a2b2a>L140>PF3346>PF3345>L497>CTS9737>Z1817>Z727>CTS2230>Z726>Z36217 Apparently the ISOGG nomenclature has changed again. I've aligned mine with what FTDNA has these days which doesn't align with Maciamo's chart of 2016 on the...

Aci, help me out here. What thread of G2a are you on?

I suppose my disappointment with this map/article is that I find this a fascinating subject and they have demeaned it somehow by making it about modern politics (at least in my view). I mean, isn't it amazing that there is a kind of founder principle at work here where the first colonists create...

Salento, again thank you, you're a good man. I suppose my concern at this point is not so much that I can't get a match on Gedcom for this one sample, but why is there such a mismatch between it and MTA? After all, the MTA gave me Rise6 as my top match. Has anyone else seen this kind of...

Salento, thank you for the response. Your first hint did not help (got the same answer), but I will look into Gedcom's Tier 1.

This seems to be based on David Hackett Fischer's formulation of how the British colonies in America were settled in four great waves of emigration from England.- East Anglian Puritans came to New England between 1629 and 1640. - West Country Cavaliers and their Servants came to the Chesapeake...

To all: I could use some advise in understanding MyTrueAncestry. They list "ancient relatives" with whom I share identified DNA segments. The very first of these is Corded Ware Denmark (2450 BC). Of this they list: - Rise61: mtDNA: J1c4, Y-DNA: R1a1a1, Total cM=49.85, Largest segment=11.98 cM...

Ah, well I was ready to be admonished, though I didn’t know why.

Angela, I’m a bit confused. Who are you addressing in your comment 40 and 46?

Part of growing up (will the current generation ever do so?) is realizing how right your Mom was (goes for Dad too). My greatest realization struck when I started rearing my own children. As each new problem arose memories would flood back of what my Mother had told me . . . and it worked...