• solrize@lemmy.ml
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    Yes, I can see your future. The good news is you become a starship captain. The bad news is you lose your hair.

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    What the hell are these map? Ancestry dna is not more scientific than astrology

    Do you speak French? Do you visit family in France? A story about a famous French ancestor? If not why would it be relevant?

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    Most likely you have ancestors who lived in what is now France. Either that, or you have ancestors whose descendants moved around, and some of them settled in what is now France.

    This could have happened before or after France became a nation.

    Then again, it’s pretty likely that you have ancestors who lived in Africa.

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    The movements of people since time immemorial does not adhere to the arbitrary political lines we’ve drawn between nations today. Both France and England have seen large scale immigration by the Romans, various old Germanic people, then the Vikings. All these people have killed and fucked each other. Attributing DNA to an area is partially a statistical likelihood, so there’s a margin for error. Except in geographically and/or historically isolated areas, we’re all more blended than anything else. That makes the race theory of the late 19th century seem so utterly ludicrous today but we can’t quite completely get it out of our heads either.