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Old Mar 20, 2006 | 8:22 pm
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I feel like Mortimer in "Arsenic & Old Lace"
Originally Posted by mbstone
Pay $220, send in a cotton swab of the inside of your cheek to Prof. Bryan Sykes at Oxford University (www.oxfordancestors.com) and he will tell you what geographic area your ancestors came from. Beats gallivanting around Europe (or wherever) looking for people with similar facial features.
When the sanity of one's relatives seem to increase with the distance of the relation, I'm not so sure I want to know who my blood relatives are... In any case , I *think* I'm German/English/French with a dash of Choctaw Indian. So I kinda doubt that even if I found a population that I resembled that the resemblance would be genetically-based. There are after all all lots of examples of physically similar species which are not very closely related. The biologists even have a name for this, but I forget what it is
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