Benny on December 16th, 2005

Scientists believe that studying the humble zebrafish may have helped solve the mystery of human skin colour.

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Benny on December 15th, 2005

In the BBC news today, scientists have discovered that this wonderful island of ours (no, no, not the Seychelles) was peopled some 200,000 earlier than previously thought. It brought a smile to my face when I thought that if it were possible to trace your family to the earlier days, you would now be facing another long haul!

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Benny on December 10th, 2005

If you do not want to shake any family skeletons out of the cupboard, don’t do genealogy and certainly do not do genetic genealogy.

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Benny on December 9th, 2005

This news story on the BBC site is one that I am afraid of. Depite the fact that yDNA cannot be used to identify individuals, it is storieds like this that will make it difficult to convince people to have their DNA tested for the WRYEllis yDNA study.

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