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Is the whole World inbred ?

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  • #32
    a fat guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 800 ✭✭✭a fat guy


    ScumLord wrote: »
    Pangaea I Think. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea. Geneva is a city in Switzerland.

    That's the one, thanks.

    Where the hell did I get Geneva from?


  • #33
    Mickey Dazzler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Mickey Dazzler


    Pretty much I would say....... I had sex wit a cousin once.....no harm in it....





    ..........and the call me Michael Dazzler.........


  • #34
    Baneblade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 426 ✭✭Baneblade


    Battered Mars Bar wrote: »
    We're well watered down at this stage, except for small island countries with small populations where people for generations usually married someone fairly local....can't think of any such place off the top of my head though.

    Iceland
    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Nope. We definitely came from chimpanzees - we branched off about 6000 years ago.

    A guy in the pub told me.

    he might want to add some extra digits to that. the city of jericho is one of the oldest in the world and that was founded about 11000 years ago


  • #35
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Battered Mars Bar wrote: »
    We're well watered down at this stage, except for small island countries with small populations where people for generations usually married someone fairly local....can't think of any such place off the top of my head though.


    Moate .. the gene pool there is pretty shallow there at the best of times


  • #36
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    Battered Mars Bar wrote: »
    We're well watered down at this stage, except for small island countries with small populations where people for generations usually married someone fairly local....can't think of any such place off the top of my head though.
    pitcairn island


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  • #37
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,386 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    We're all related, but we're not that related for it to be an issue. Non African peoples have between 1-5% Neandertal DNA, East Asian populations have even higher levels of DNA from another earlier human in the area. On a yearly basis we're discovering more and more of this kinda thing. The pure out of Africa model was needlessly simplistic and not a little daft.


    PS I knew a chap involved with genetic research in Ireland back in the late 90's and he told me of a few small towns in Ireland(no names) where genetic diversity was scarily low.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #38
    Doc Ruby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    rab!dmonkey wrote: »
    It wasn't quite 80 people OP, according to Wikipedia it was possibly 1,000 breeding pairs at its lowest.
    Bet there's an epic story behind that somewhere. My bet is on mutant human hairy spider overlords. That's why so many instinctively hate big hairy spiders. Either that or mice and we're getting our own back by doing all those experiments on them. Or its the long term plan of the mice to become invincible and immortal via these experiments and hence gain the upper hand once again...

    Even in severely inbred populations much if not all of the serious genetic defects get bred out within a few generations. This has been observed in small island populations. Fewer than a hundred could be a perfectly viable breeding stock.


  • #39
    Coriolanus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,879 ✭✭✭Coriolanus


    Biggins wrote: »
    Aye...

    Where did those 80 people descend from!

    Space! :eek:

    Transporters at the ready Mr Spock!
    Psh. I'm from a long proud lines of Adama's.


  • #40
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    a fat guy wrote: »
    That's the one, thanks.

    Where the hell did I get Geneva from?

    Its a city in Sqitzerland. you're welcome.


  • #41
    Logical Fallacy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    Stiffler2 wrote: »
    If we all came from a small group of people who made it off Africa "back in the day"

    gonna say it was 80 people as I saw a doc a while ago and think this was the number ( although how the F**K would they really know ye ? )


    so if we're all descended from 80 people is the whole world inbred then ??

    Just looking to my left and to my right at people in work I would have to say.

    Yes Tom, yes we are.


    thoughts ?

    If you can look to your left and your right at the same time then the odds are good that you are the one who is inbred.


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  • #42
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    Well. this is a silly thread, isn't it. Its at times like this my mind begins to wander, and I think about things....

    Like, for instance, at the moment I am thinking whether that was really the best strategy for Wonka to find a new CEO..


  • #43
    DonQuay1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 174 ✭✭DonQuay1


    Stiffler2 wrote: »
    If we all came from a small group of people who made it off Africa "back in the day"

    gonna say it was 80 people as I saw a doc a while ago and think this was the number ( although how the F**K would they really know ye ? )


    so if we're all descended from 80 people is the whole world inbred then ??

    Just looking to my left and to my right at people in work I would have to say.

    Yes Tom, yes we are.


    thoughts ?

    Only Dublin south central ....


  • #44
    Scanlas The 2nd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,144 ✭✭✭Scanlas The 2nd


    LostCorkGuy wrote: »
    My name is URL wrote: »
    ¿Que

    bible story where your man pulled a rib out of adam and made eve ?

    Was?


  • #45
    Helix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,661 ✭✭✭✭Helix


    ScumLord wrote: »
    More like 50,000. 80 of just about any animal isn't enough to support a species. I think we went as low as around 50,000 at one stage and that was a near extinction event for our species.

    we didn't just magically appear in a number as high as 50,000 though

    there would've been a first common ancestor of everyone


  • #46
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,464 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Inbred with what though?
    That's the real question.


  • #47
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    some threads are just best left at page 231, this is one of them


  • #48
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Only the banjo players are inbred, the rest of us have been genetically modified to have proper chins.


  • #49
    android1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭android1


    Stiffler2 wrote: »
    If we all came from a small group of people who made it off Africa "back in the day"

    gonna say it was 80 people as I saw a doc a while ago and think this was the number ( although how the F**K would they really know ye ? )


    so if we're all descended from 80 people is the whole world inbred then ??

    Just looking to my left and to my right at people in work I would have to say.

    Yes Tom, yes we are.


    thoughts ?

    Nah, just you.


  • #50
    whendovescry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 127 ✭✭whendovescry


    we most certainly are:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3sTzLXtojo


  • #51
    Stiffler2
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭Stiffler2


    Here's the real answer, also explains why you can't remember stuff very well after 5 years, it's because your brain has been replaced :

    I did have another thread on this but was closed by a trigger happy mod
    anyway here's the link to the proof that the world is committing incest and that you are all inbred. ( inlc me I suppose )

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhtgINeaJWg


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  • #52
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    shopaholic01 wrote: »
    Got the hots for your cousin OP?

    lets all move to shelbyville ;)


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