Our genetic past
I recently joined a study to detemine human dna movements around the planet. Partly to try and see if any kind of link with my own patenal grandmother would turn up. It didn't. What I came to understand is tracking this sort of dna study is done through either the mothers ancestry,if you are a female. Or the fathers ancestry if you are a male. So we got my mothers, and I had my brother contribute his cheek swab so we could look at my fathers dna. The surprise was the amount of Neanderthal on both sides. And another less know extinct hominid called the Denisovans. This was on my mothers side. Through her Scandanavian heritage. From people who migra...