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Position:Home>Genealogy> Could we all be descended from the japanese? ?Question: Could we all be descended from the japanese!? !? i have read that we, meaning everyone in the modern world, are all descended from most of earth's population around 700-800 A!.D!., i know a lot of people love japan and it's culture, so, would it be fair to say all modern world-living people have japanese ancestry!? Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: > are all descended from most of earth's population around 700-800 A!.D!., Except a few, who are descended from people who fell asleep in 650 AD and didn't wake up until 850 AD, just like Rip Van Winkle!. Everything you wrote is either wrong or laughable!. Yes, we are all descended from people who were alive in 700-800 AD!. We're all descended from people who were alive in 200 BC - 100 BC too!. Sometime before that you have to choose between a creation legend, be it Jewish, Navajo, Zulu or other, and the DNA evidence that says we walked out of Africa about 20,000 - 40,000 years ago!. 700 - 800 AD was the time of Charlemagne, the middle ages; monks, knights, peasants toiling in the fields!. The Incas hadn't built their empire yet; the pyramids were old!. Racial characteristic - skin color, eye color, nose shape - take a LONG time to evolve!. The three, four, six or twelve races of man kind were well established in 750 AD!. Lots of people admire the moon when it rises, fat and golden, in the Autumn twilight!. That doesn't mean we're all descended from the man on the moon!. Lots of people admire ragtime piano music, but that doesn't mean we're all descended from Scott Joplin!.Www@QuestionHome@Com No way: There were no people who were worldwide travelers ca!. 800 A!. D!. An idea such as that assumes that we all have ancestors who came from every corner of the globe!. At that time, most people were being born and staying all their lives within walking distance of their homes!. It is true that within any given region, we are descended from many of the people who lived their whole lives in that particular region at some remote era of time!. And we descend from people with common ancestors (most of our remote ancestors were close or distant cousins to one another)!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Sorry, your assumptions and assertions are all incorrect!. It is likely, from mitochondrial DNA studies and other DNA studies, that we are all descended from a rather small group of people who lived around 60000 years ago!. Www@QuestionHome@Com noWww@QuestionHome@Com |