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Thursday 17 May 2012

Genealogy.

A fascinating aspect of genetics is that there’s overwhelming evidence that we are all closely related, making non-sense of political and racial divisions. To be exact the average kinship between people in Britain is sixth cousin, but there are hundreds and thousands of sixth cousins. Which means that most of us can claim to be related to the Queen.
Studies of DNA from the haemoglobin genes suggest that the entire population of the world outside Africa may have descended from a group of fewer than 100 people who emigrated hundreds of thousands of years ago.
It could be what the saints and mystics, like Francis of Assisi, always believed, that all living creatures are kin.
Steve Jones say’s “If you really want to find a connection, there’s a fascinating research paper which proves that there are human genes in yeast. This simple fact is fundamentally astonishing, because it means there is a close relationship between me and a bottle of Chardonnay. Which” He explains “is something I have always known.”

Ha! Ha! lol I like that. Fragment from an interview with Steve Jones. (archive).

Have A Good Day Cousins. X


Saturday 12 May 2012

1066 - 1381 Feudalism [Enslaved by the Normans].

The end of Feudalism in Britain was 1349 after the plague halved the population. At this time workers finally realized their worth. In 1381 the labouring class revolt after the ruling class try to subjugate the working class. The English were enslaved by the Normans from 1066 to c.1381 for 315 years but eventually were able to free themselves of oppression and continue to protect their rights as equal to all to this day.

Tuesday 1 May 2012

Happy May Day.










Guinevere, Hon. John Collier.