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To: D. Long who wrote (9705)5/24/1999 10:48:00 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 17770
 
Dear Mr. Long,
I would still maintain that the basic math involved in human demographics makes the forensic evidence meaningless when dealing with long time intervals. Let's take the case of Charlemagne who lived about 1200 years ago. It's known that Charlemagne had children, a bunch of them. Enough time has passed that by now the odds are that virtually everyone of western European descent has him somewhere in their family tree, though virtually no one may be aware of it. So I'm almost certainly a descendent of Charlemagne. Most of my neighbors are. I'm guessing that you probably are. And because of racial admixture over the last few centuries (most American Blacks and Indians have at least some white ancestry) so probably is Muhammed Ali and Russell Means. Of course all of these people are also descended from virtually everyone else living in western Europe in Charlemagne's time. Now Muhammed Ali and Russell Means and for that matter me or you or my neighbor across the street may not have any forensic skeletal similarities with Charlemagne. Nevertheless the odds are overwhelming that we are all descendents of him. Do you understand what I'm saying? If any of your known ancestors come from a particular part of the world, then *everyone* who lived (and who had children) in that part of the world in ancient times is your ancestor. Regardless of whether or not we look like them. Since we all have millions of ancient ancestors, we may look like any of them or some mix of any of them.

Bruce
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