Face of the past. Myself 90.000 years ago

I remember myself sitting at Hyde Park, London sometime in Summer 1999 when I had just bought Jared Diamond’s “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”. I immersed myself deeply in his book and I am to this day completely fascinated by anything related to ancestry research and the genetic journey of humankind.

The participation kit is only $100 and it’s money well spent if you ask me, especially when you take into account, that the Greenback is not what it used to be and sourcing in the states is really cheap at the moment.

A few weeks ago I got the results and would now like to share my “ancestral journey” with you, that might encourage one or the other reader to take part in this fascinating and important project.

THE RESULTS

My Y-chromosome results identify me as a member of haplogroup E3b.

The genetic markers that define my ancestral history reach back roughly 60,000 years to the first common marker of all non-African men, M168, and follow my lineage to present day, ending with M35, the defining marker of haplogroup E3b.

If we Look at the map highlighting my ancestors’ route, you will see that members of haplogroup E3b carry the following Y chromosome
markers:

M168 > YAP > M96 > M35

Today, the E3b line of descent is most heavily represented in Mediterranean populations. Approximately 10 percent of the men in Spain belong to this haplogroup, as do 12 percent of the men in northern Italy, and 13 percent of the men in central and southern Italy. Roughly 20 percent of the men in Sicily belong to this group. In the Balkans and Greece, between 20 to 30 percent of the men belong to E3b, as do nearly 75 percent of the men in North Africa. The haplogroup is rarely found in India  or East Asia. Around 10 percent of all European men trace their descent to this Line. For example, in Ireland, 3 to 4 percent of the men belong; in England, 4 to 5 percent; Hungary, 7 percent, and Poland, 8 to 9 percent. Nearly 25 percent of Jewish men belong to this haplogroup.

This is very exciting stuff and if you would like to contact me about this story, please don’t hesitate to do so.

Bilder aus dem Station habe ich wie gewohnt auf meiner Website veröffentlicht. Von Videokonzertmitschnitten werde ich vorsichtshalber absehen, da diese wahrscheinlich nicht mit dem heutigen Urheberrecht oder sonstwas vereinbar sind und hinterher die Anti-(Innovation)-Terror-Polizei bei mir vor der Tür steht.

So langsam hab ich wirklich die Nase voll von dämlichen Kontrollen , unsinnigen Verboten und sonstigem Unfug unserer Regierung …

Back to the Topic: Youtube hält ein paar sehr geniale Videos (z.B. Land of Confusion ) & Sounds von Genesis vor, die zur Einstimmung genau das richtige sind und sehr schön rüberbringen, wie cool das Konzert war!

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