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  • awww we're all from Africa our mom was african i guess thats why they say the mother land damn i'm slow I seen this when it came on and i told people about it and my friends was like I don't believe white and asian people have african in them

  • "Race is a social concept, not a scientific one." -J. Craig Venter

  • Like if you are in an English class

  • What about Adam and Eve? You mean we are not in-breeders? lol

  • @VideoUploaderTester...So all the otherancient people's in Africa whom we're not related to, the ones who aren't our ancient ancestor, they're the non-Niggers? You must be great genealogical expert. 99.9% of all all human DNA is the same as the African Ancestors, so are you a Wigger, or a Asigger? Isn't the saying, once an "-igger," always an "-igger"?

  • @punkysfriendcherry

    Human beings have one origin.

  • @nanoday1 Watch the special again. They highlighted the two humans that CURRENT humans today are descended from, not the 1st ever homo sapiens; so important to note. The roots of all humans today are traced back to one specific man and one specific woman. And, there is a gap in time to where this first woman that we're related to came into existence BEFORE the first man came about. They even highlight this on QI with Stephen Fry.

  • This proves that we all come from the same, racism, and discrimination don't make sense but sex is great.

  • We're all one, one people. We are the human race, the country of Earth, the government of us.

  • The project says that we all have the same ancestors: African niggers :)

  • Not related to whites by choice they stole my ancestors after leaving Europe in there colonialism ways I'm ashamed of white people and there history we blacks should be the ones looking down folks want to look into genetics blacks are mix up because of white neantherthals having no respect and sticking there small white dick into Africas Queen the black woman we never wanted to have euro blood in our veins

  • Also have, as I am more than half black, a lot of Western and Northern african influences, and because of that a lot of arabic blood as well. There is a difference between the migration of your ancestors and what's actually in their blood...But you should get a tree with your DNA, showing all of the major traces in your blood. I also have Indian, Indonesian, South American(Probably more Indian) and even Portugese and Spanish. It's an enriching experience, you should try it yourself. Share:D

  • You know what's awesome...I did my own MtDna test through Gene Tree. I found out that, as my mother has told me, (My grandmother's father was a Choctaw native american...If you remember you're history, the native americans are from different parts of asia, as they crossed the Bering Straight years ago before the Vikings or was it after? I always get confused with that lol)...Well I found out I do have that M8 marker which is indicative of my Native American heritage and also have a japanese one

  • Scientists claim that every human on earth can be traced back to a single female. I find it hard to believe that they could tell that. I

  • @melora72 If you can not believe that scientusts can not trace the DNA, then why are they holding some many criminals because of tracing DNA to them. GET MY POINT

  • @HairH2O

    Oh, I know they can trace DNA. I just find it amazing that they can tell we are all from one female ancestor. I'd like to know more about mine but the Genographic Project only does limited analysis.

    My haplogroup is U2, which isn't very common. It's from SE Europe and Western Asia. There are people with it in India. They found a frozen hunter with U2 in southern Russia. All the ancestly I know about is Western European and British. U2 isn't antwhere near there.

  • I sent my kit in about two weeks ago and it isn't in the database yet.

  • @melora722

    I'm still waiting for my results. If I can't get to them soon I'll have to email of phone someone. I might be trying to access it wrong.

  • Alas, there are NO modern humans with neanderthal ancestory. There may have been hybrids, but they died off just like the Neanderthals.

  • @melora722 This new neanderthal ancestry mess is the new idiotic movement to separate humans and to maintain racism

  • Do we all have one ancestor though? What if a tribe evolved instead of an individual? Then we would come from the same tribe, but not the same individuals :)

    Also, what about the Neanderthal DNA in us? There are signs that Neanderthals mated with humans, so there's another difference.

    Something to think about(Not trying to dispute the fact that we are all connected, just some questions that came to mind)

  • @GoldenSilence333 sciences say there is a new human species every two thousand years. That means there is a smal change in the DNA link.

  • I love watching this.  Excellent work guys!

  • Hello, fellow brothers & sisters:)

  • It's a little more complicated than all that, because it doesn't take 35,000 years to walk and float from Africa to any place on the planet. In the circumpolar region for example (which has always been a superhighway for people and language and culture and in terms of speed, perhaps not bandwidth) it only takes a year or two for one person to travel from Norway to Newfoundland, via Alaska. It not just a story of mass migration, and numbers. Its also about individuals. We all tell a story.

  • @kennedyjames007 the people moving north were still dealing with glaciation so it wasn't as simple as all that either

  • heh, more proof that from a darwinnian perspective, that diversity is what makes the uber mensche not inbreeding (blood purity pah!)...

  • its ignorant people like u (samir3323 fool) that created this racist ideological world... keep readin ur 5%er bullshit... like the story of white man was created on an island off the coast of greece by a scientist that took only 600 years...please... do the real knowledge god... dont be stupid. one.

  • i did the test and my maternal dna came back as 'W'. i got matches with people from all over like pakistan, afghanistan, turkmenistan, iran, russia, turkey, jordan, syria, and all over from europe but especially from east europe, north europe & russia ... .i even got some matches with ukrainian ashkenazi jews looool and whats odd is that my parents are from india lool.... now im waiting for my fathers y-dna results.

  • so wait, whites enslaved gods children then,Zoiks you guys in big freakn trouble with the guy upstairs.So we now know the Hebrews are black what will happen to the fake jews whom stole their birth right actually it's gonna suck to be white.it's going to funny watching yall in chains claiming to be africans & how we are all gods children lol

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  • yeah...we're all one, two thousand generatioins ago. now we are not, because social conceptions of race and racial inequalitiy have created a seperation since that time.

  • a monkey can evolve in to a humanoid in 100000 years humanoid in human in another 50000 years,so there is a chance of evolution for each individual group according to the environmental needs for every 20,000 or 30,000 years.now tell me are we all the same or different

  • OMGosh! IBM is the company that supposedly made and provided the first computers to keep track of Prisoners during the Roth, er? Nazi Campaigns.

  • all right

    I studied now the distribution of various haplogroups, especially R1a1a

    I understand thats very fantasy exciting & makes sense. Distribution of modern carriers of R1a1a (east-centr europe, India) overlap with the paths of IE

    But the genetic proximity is 25000 old

    It shows only how during this time people changed their physical reatures cuz of environment

    Swedes r more like (geneticly remote) Finns than (genetically close) middle east people

  • Let's stop the ignorance now. We are one. God Bless Africa!

  • @fireriver29 MEANING We all come from Adama.HalleluYAH!

  • Is it just me or does Dr. Spencer Wells kinda look like CPT Kirk?

  • The Basques are the only remaining people of Europe who lived here prior to the arrival of the first IE-speakers. However, no linguistic match to their language was found. Is there any genetic research known that links the Basques to any other population?

  • Basques are typical Europeans, linked to Southern French, and North African Berbers.

    There never was any large arrival of IE speakers (it is a myth). IE languages arrived to Europe in the last millenias, first via Anatolia (Turkey) and Caucasus to Greece and Rome, and another path via the Scythians of Southern Russia. There was very little immigration, but rather a spread of culture. The last large spread of IE languages was as recent as middle ages, with the Avar migration threw Europe.

  • I appreciate your comment

    I know the recent non-IE speakers: Magyars, Bulgars(adopted Slavonic), Finns, Esthonians. But Basques can be traced back archeologically 10 000 years!

    Typical europeans they are! The most ancient(thanks to language) we can define!

    Amazing that their language survived although I presume that they mixed up with all surrounding IE-speakers for 2000 years

    so many europeans should be closely genetically linked to Hindus, Iranians, Kurds

  • Europeans are closely linked to each other and middle easterns. The only Europeans partially linked to Iranian (Aryan people) are Russians, Italians and Greek. Europeans are speakers of IE, there is no such "race" as IE, just there is no "semitic race" and no other myths too. Genographic project blew the myths up. There are 5 main ancestries of Human race - the Caucasian (European and middle eastern), Indo-Aryan, African, North-Siberian (and Amerinid) and Asian.

    Europeans have no link to Arians

  • There is no such (biological) race as "Aryan". In ancient India the Aryans were people who underwent certain rituals and lived according to certain codes of conduct.

  • Yes of course, Aryan or Iranian is a cultural definition. All people are the same race biologically.

  • i guess were all one family,my friends,my enemies,everyone in this world is my family

  • I'm part African, French, Italian, Spanish, Irish, and Native American, my skin color is white and I can grow a sandy blond Afro. So I can only imagine how the first humans looked.

  • This is the words from former US State Secretary Henry Kissinger in 1997.

  • It is simple Anthropology!

  • Does this mean gorillas are my cousins?

    Gorillas share 98% of the same DNA as me.

  • Great, now we can love one another a little more, knowing we are all related. It just make sense, common sense. Stop the H8. Bravo National Geographic.

  • HEY!!!! YO QUIET!!! This project just proved that we're all related. Race NO LONGER exists. Its just a color. You would choose to read a book just because it was blue and hate all books that were purple. That's stupid. So is this. Stop saying that "Oh, whites made more contribution." "Asians are smarter" "Blacks are smart" SHUT UP!!! Dude, the only reason we look different isn't because one "race" is better, its because of the climate. We are ALL one race. One people. So lets act like it.

  • i agree with you.

  • Race never has existed between humans on earth... People have been mistaking color for race since anyone can remember. This is no new fact.

  • about time someone said it

  • @nhatkhoi13 This is so true. I was so surprised by my Ancestry results.

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  • When one realizes that all living things bleed it should be easier to grasp that although removed we are all related.

  • i am just another yourself.....

  • Lol, isn't this supposed to bring people together? All of you guys are talking about "whites" and "blacks" again.

    I think it's kinda funny, but wake up guys, really.

  • hahahahah the kkk just got owned ha they're black lol

  • @bahabeauty87 white racist are ignorant niggers i love it!

  • google

    "Africa home of modern mind"

  • I think God should punish the person who lies but honestly if it was not for Africans we would not have had the resources to advance as we have.

  • not really. go way back and you'll find that back then like middle east, north africa like egypt, and natives of north america, invented stuffs that you can find in modern days.

  • that's because the blacks in the US were kept down and segregated by the uncaring US government, up until the 1960s (and even a bit after that). the african people have not had the same advantages that others do. africa is a horrible place to live. hot, barren, tons of predators and diseases. everyone is too focused on surviving to advance in more technological ways. thats exactly why everyone's ancestors left, it sucked.

  • Dude, whites have invented the majority of what we have (planes, cars, computers etc). Did they have advantages? -ofcorse.

    But that does not change the fact that 80% of what we know and have has been invented by whites and asians. Its is common knowlage. It is not racism. If you gve me a thumbs down, you are racist, becouse you want to undermind the white and mongoloid race achivements.

  • the fact that they had those advantages is the reason for your statement, which is an obvious fact, a fucked up one, but a true one nonetheless

  • thank you. I think, that if the roles were reversed, blacks would have had the same scientific achivements as whites and asians have had.

    But it didnt happane that way. And what really pisses me off are black people who cant accept that. I think thats just weak. And I think its racist.

  • no the point is africa's landscape did not allow for casual advancements in technology. they were too caught up in SURVIVING. other people's ancestors migrated out for that reason, and they evolved a little bit to adapt to these new areas (lighter skin because of less heat and sunlight, extra eyelids to protect against sun reflecting off of snow, etc.) so the role couldnt be reversed. either way you sound like a racist to other people when you keep bringing this up. it sounds like youre bragging

  • @mkopbcgfd

    You need to read up on the Moors,nothing new under the sun & all non africans are part neanderthal! blacks are the only real,pure humans,the science is in.

  • ur absolutely right nigga! like without asians we wouldnt have guns!

  • LOL! you are wrong damn motherfucker get your facts right and do more research know i going 2 say it like this brown/blacks invented alot of things i dont know what the fuck you talking asias and white real funny try the egyptians and sumerians set the blueprint for everybody to follow as a matter of fact when europe was in the dark ages kemet was never in a period like that but on the real everybody has made good invention which make life better dont care if u r white brown,black blue, or etc..

  • Dude Ure wrong a lot of the things where created by Africans did U know that Air Condition or A/C was created by a black man ,did U know U back wash cracker that the traffic lights where invented by a black man, did u know a black man changed the way we operate in the Brain,I know U dont want to be but did U know ure descendent from the black man ,that makes U a Nigger too......craker

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  • did you just attempt to put a hex on me??? lol/ oh i am doomed oooohhhh

  • @Roymatta and you are obviuosly a stupid racist asshole.By the way the traffic light (3-color we use today) was invented by William Potts.It was installed in 1920 on the corner of Woodward and Michigan Avenues in Detroit. He worked for the government and was not allow to patent his invention.Garrett Morgan's invention more like the semaphore signals you see at train crossings today,not the 3 color traffic light invented by Potts.Willis Haviland Carrier invented air conditioner.He was not black.

  • @mkopbcgfd

    every thing you invent fucks up the planet or is used to kill others your inventions are really more like exposing your weakness! & barbaism 7 you still cant build a pyramid so how smart are you my pink recessive brother.

  • africa is not horrible u are rite about the brown/blacks being kept down n things like that but what u see on tv about diseases and predators are only in a different areas just like there are places in US and else where u got poor parts in any country

  • thats true. cant deny the unbarable heat though, unless you adapt to it of course

  • God does not exist. And IF he did (hypothetically speaking), he does NOT care about mankind, he never has and NEVER will.

  • @peopleRfuckingstupid you have proof?

  • @peopleRfuckingstupid

    He's in all of you the black man is as close to god as we will ever get i didnt say creator but he is god on this planet you all are of his flesh better start treating god right!

  • I think every race invented equally I do not think one set of people is better than the other.

    google

    "Africa home of modern mind"

  • the god equation...

  • this is propaganda

  • PletetExperience... How is this propaganda? The "Out of Africa" theory is backed up by DNA evidence. Get your mind right. Whether you want to believe it or not the single mutation that resulted in modern humanity can be mapped back to the offspring of a woman in Africa. Oops. Just ruined your day. You are just like everyone else, a mut.

  • @prutyladyd07 the black woman is the mother of all creation the real mother nature you all better hurry back to basics technology is not a good measure of intelligence since most tech is used to destroy. maybe thats why they didnt invent destructive stuff whites are arrogant & dont listen & thats why the world if FUCKED up as i type

  • look at these fuckin dumbasses especially that cop, willfully lending their DNA information, your DNA is your ultimate ID card in todays world

  • a good point (if rather tactlessly worded on a public web site open to minors); big business corporations generally don't have a good rep when it comes to choosing between ethical behaviour and profit (although i'm not sure about ibm or nat geographic's record).

    but i don't think its possible to synthesize someone's dna and its not used in any security applications as far as i'm aware. (can you provide an example for your statement of it being used as an id card).

  • this is so interesting...im so buying this test

  • ALL humans come from east africa, remember that

  • why Africa ?

  • Thats were we evolved...

  • well, in a sense, every single cell and living thing can be all traced back to a common ancestor

  • Try telling a biggot that.

  • huh? what are you talking about? i was pointing to the fact that it's not at all surprising we all have common ancestors. because it's not just among human races that have common ancestors. it's among all species.

  • Hahaha i knew the original man looked like me and all you crackers are abominations so now i not going to call yall crackers anymore ima call yall mistakes. so if man was made in God image and the original man looked like myself then you mistakes must have been made in the devils image

  • hahaha!! I wanna see the face of a Racist Peckerwood when he watches this. Owned! haha!

    Hotep

  • I still don't think I want to mix with sub saharan africans...

  • Son sub Saharan Africans don't wnat to mix with a mix breed like you.

    Mixed Mutt means mixed agenda

  • have I replied to you ever before? anyways yeah as an Indian I am a mongrel unless proven otherwise. And you are right sub-saharan born pure negrids don't want to mix with anybody else. Good for them. I don't have any agendas except to purify my nation by eliminating the mutts. If 90% of the people in my nation have to be sterilized or killed then so be it.

  • Your race was African before. Caucasians became the race Caucasian in the Caucasus. That is where the name Caucasian came from. You are not European because they came from another branch.

  • when all homonids were in africa there was no race. but does'nt matter cuz we came and became the people we are today. and yeah caucasoid is pretty stupid but in physical anthropology is refers to north africans, europeans, semites and indids we share a genetics affnity versus other populations. we belong to the west eurasian branch. europeans came from west eurasian branch. indids are closest to europeans than anyone else. their next match is saudi arabians/semites.

  • Semites are from Seth. I have heard Chinese are from Seth and so are some in East Africa. If you are close to Semites then you are not part of the European branch. Because Europeans are from the oldest son of Noah and it was not Seth.

    Humans were a race when they left Africa.

  • lol you biblical piece of shit, don't me make me beat your head old testament style.

  • I am being honest. You would be from Seth not the European branch. From what I have read. Example you have Jews who are Isrealites from Asia but their fore parents who mixed in with a certain group exist no more or would be a tribe in Africa who migrated to central Africa. Because of mixing but they were originally black isrealites. Not saying you are black but alot of ethnic groups get lost that way.

  • You can define yourself how ever you want. You live in India that is your home. You know your background.

  • But you have to understand that this does mean you are indigenous to the place. If you are Tamil or any of those so called lower caste.

  • yes I agree west eurasians were neolithic immigrants to india which was preceeded by australoids. most lower castes are heavily australoid. and not all tamils are indigenous, brahmins and some merchant and warrior people are immigrants. with the latter two being mixed with the locals, although some stand out.

  • tamil...wat about SC/ST....which is ur caste...be specific...if u are not brahmin then u are lower caste in iNDIA. HAHA accept tht.

  • ?LOL....EACH and EVERY word beyondgreat said is backed up not only by the bible..but by history and archeology also...

  • beyondgreat (and you) need to join the 'beyond STUPID' club.

    The bible has no place in discussions of scientific geneology. Period.

  • Yes, i agree.

  • Yes, the man created on the 6th day was dark. Read the Bible.After the 7th day God decided He needed someone to till the soil (begin civilization). White people aren't a mistake, they are a solution.God loves all of his children. That is the image He wishes you to reflect-his character. If you think God has black or white skin then you essentially worship an alien.If crackas are devilspawn abominations then so are our tools and innovations. Throw away your toilet and smash your computer.

  • Maybe if more blacks participated in this project, they would find out who their father was. I wonder if Maury Povich offers it?

  • Yeah - if not for Wite people and Asians the world would still be in the stone age becous whites and asians have invented allmost everything... Im not being racist like VAZoolu - im just pointing out a FACT... But still - exept skinn color and a few physical differences - we are all the same, we are all African :D

  • This is not true, Africans taught whites how to brush there damn teeth for crying out loud whites were barbaric, the first scholars were black , most of every things was black as you can see, we were the first im just american now thats the only difference. After they learned those simple things egypt was robbed naked and flushed from its history , thats why today their trying to say egypt was white which is a lie.

  • Hey, yeah, I know, what I sayed was a bit racist, but that was 5 months ago. Im a different person now.

    Yeah, your totaly right about that. No race is superiour of inferiour. Its just, that different cultures rise and fall in different times. I mean, look at Europe in the dark ages, and look at it now. And look at, say the middle east at the dark ages. They were much more advanced then Europe. But, that changed. So, yeah, every culture is equal, it just depend on what time your living in :)

  • @105km the white race is headed for the tail as you can plainly see they have had it coming for a minute! lucky for you I don't think blacks have the evil in their hearts like neanderthals better hope not anyway lol

  • Umm, I dont think, egyptians were black. Nubians were black.

    But, you know, I still say whites and asians invented and discovered the majority of what we have and know. I dont think thats racist, thats just a fact.

  • Not exactly if you have money to patent you can own and say you invented anything but no you are actually wrong the first university was in Africa.

  • original man was your fresh nigga from the hood?

  • @VAZoolu

    DAMN I thought i went hard cheer up whites your the wild life im black & i love all gods animals!

  • Human are more similar than biological differences. Human started in East Africa. Adam and Eve might have been dark skinned...as well as Jesus because he had brushy hair.

  • Adam+Eve=LOVE Forever

  • wow

  • Unification brings us closer than you think.

  • "one of the greatest illusions in the world is separation"

  • Adam+Eve=are'nt we all inbred anyways? does it really take science to figure that out?

  • This is absolutely amazing I want this on Blu-ray!

  • National Geographic, What kind of DNA were you testing? Mitochondrial, Autosomal, Y? I'll bet if Frank tested his Y-chromosome it would trace back to Spain as he suspected. His Mitochondrial DNA probably traces back to the Aztecs and then to Eastern Africa.

  • Spencer Wells focuses on Y-chromosome DNA.

  • I knew I have some African Blood ... I knew it!!!

  • nasosv, you are extremely negative. respect that other people think its interesting

  • how about profiling the mitochondrial DNA instead of nuclear DNA?

  • Stephen Oppenheimer did that with The Real Eve.

  • ok ...thousands of people freely agree to give dna samples(a lot of them pay for it also)thus creating a huge database wich is handled and kept by a research society ,a huge corporation and an institution called Wait family foundation...is this frightening or what???The funny part is that the answer we would all get is that we all come from East Africa.. why bother?why risk giving a sample of my dna with absolutely no control over who could use this in the future(not to mention pay for it)

  • Next time send in a sample from your dog, really mess their heads up.

  • wow what a g8 idea sending dna sample of the dog to mess their brains, ha ha!

  • ha ha ha....gud answer....hilarious.....its a scientific achievement that takes human prime to the next level,y ppl opposing it?

  • wow...I am from like.....from Africa.

  • me too

  • we all come from Mars.

  • I took part in this genographic project. I did my paternal line and it ended up in the British Isles.

  • Cool

  • too vague

  • I read Spencer Wells' book "Journey of Man" for my university course about racism. His work is fascinating and eye-opening!

  • How can I get the book?

  • you can borrow mine if you like.

  • "How can I get the book? "

    Funny how you found youtube ;)

    Try amazon, or google or. .....

  • We do care. Americans spend billions on Africans. China is spending millions. What you have to do is hold your leaders accountable. If they abuse you, impeach them. We can not do everything that needs to be done. Stop Al Qaeda before they rule over you.

  • Al Qaeda is a hoax. It was a name made up by a middle eastern con man to get the FBI to reduce the federeal fraud charges against him reduced during the first attack on the WTC in the '90's.

    The Bush administration grabbed the name so they could use it as an enemy to point to because they had no idea who was behind it.

    The reason we can't find Al Qaeda is because they don't exist!

  • A piece of information related to this video. Human HIV virus is known to be similar to the HIV found in certain breed of chimpazee which although differ in its effects on the chimpanzee, it provides us with a possible clue of HIV origin. Also the HIV is knoown to match a "hybrid" of the virus from two other simans..

  • Just stop messing around and stick to your spouse. Tell everyone else to do the same. It can be stopped.

  • Because this video doesn't have what you're advertising, you dim witted fuck.

  • why should this be ridiculous?

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  • Because people are afraid to learn something new that they've previously know to be faulse.. its like being brought up to believe something through your life only to find out that what your believe could have possibly have been wrong. Humans are nieve creatures they dont like to be proven wrong, its a human trait..

  • Actually axel you're wrong. You can't sit their and confidently state that we're learning something "new" which was previously known to be "false". If you pay close attention even the host of the vid. consistently says "your ancestors 'may' have been"...or "might have" or "maybe". He's not sure even for himself, so why should we be absolutely confident in this study's results. THAT my friend is why I figure it's ridiculous.

  • but it still closer evidence than a guess correct? its still in a ballpark estimate over something that has no foundation whatsoever and is just someone's opinion?!

  • Take the 9/11 attacks for example. There's more evidence justifying that as a conspiracy by the Bush administration, yet you don't see the media running around claiming it to be the truth. Some things just don't add up AxelTiger. This being one of them. It's far fetched is what I'm trying to say.

  • Point.. however the evidence for 9/11 is only -theory- where as DNA is evidence in its purest form..!/

  • No this is real because my aunts who are very old told me that my grandmother was muslim. I did not believe them. I always wandered why they always covered their heads. Not with triditional muslim wear but something else. I took the test and was shocked they were right.

  • Yes, we know that ethnicity and race are both socially constructed and that humans are, genetically, not nearly as heterogenous as other animals, I'm tired of scientists using science to push their political agenda. Science gives us the facts of life, it can't tell us how to interpret these facts.

  • very nice, this shows how small minded some fucking racialists are LOL! i laugh at them!

  • could these "guys" killin that ladies mammoths be...slaves...perhaps...

  • cool take my DNA and trace me back :)

  • I don't get how this is so impressive

    we already know we're all related and its not like they find all that much new from this study do they?

  • adam and eve couldnt possibly be the answer to this..

  • how...irrelevant. boo.