Half of all European Men Descended from one Bronze Age King

[AngryAmish]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3557782/How-men-spread-globe-DNA-analysis-reveals-populations-began-explode-55-000-years-ago.html

Half of all Western European men are descendants of a Bronze Age 'king' who lived 4,000 years ago.
That's according to the largest ever study of global genetic variation in the Y chromosome.
Researchers believe the monarch was one of the earliest people to rule Europe in the Stone Age.
His identity remains a mystery, but scientists believe he fathered a group of nobles who then spread across Europe.


Read the whole thing. Modern genetics is revealing a loot about the wonderful diversity of the human populations.

[Bad Dog]

1. Have you got a more reliable source than the Daily Mail?

Because you do know it's a load of old bollocks.

[eShirl]

2. here's a couple

http://www.sanger.ac.uk/news/view/modern-dna-reveals-ancient-male-population-explosions-linked-migration-and-technology
http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.3559.html

[Bad Dog]

3. Thank you.

I wasn't dismissing the story, just the Daily Mail. It's a right wing rag that supported Oswald Mosley's fascists right up to WW2, and it hasn't changed much since.

[sufrommich]

4. Well done,Bronze Age King.

[bemildred]

5. You have genes from millions and billions of ancestors, some microbial, so what? nt

[AxionExcel]

6. Adam & Eve and The anoinTED One (R) will forge agreement in this debate - or else

[Bohunk68]

7. Fascinating read. Thanks for posting.

I had my DNA done a year+ ago and have 2% So Asian (which I interpreted as Gypsy - Dad's mom came from Hungary) and I have 7% Caucasus, which means almost 10% of my DNA goes way way back. My other 90% was totally Euro.

[romanic]

8. That was one busy King.

lol

[KG]

9. slingin' some serious dick.