Anthropology

I have adopted children, know little to nothing about their birth fathers (not even my son's birth father's race), and am considering enrolling them in the Genographic Project or a similar DNA databank which tracks historic migration patterns (and can at least tell us where the birth fathers' indigenous ancestors are located). I'm also interested in documenting and perhaps publishing an article on such quests, and would like to learn from others whether they found the genetic search to be meaningful and worth the money. Please include info. about which testing company you used, the reason for your search (curiousity, paternity search, etc.) and what the cost was. Also, in order to include your quote in my article, knowing your name, city, and state or province would be helpful (but not crucial). Thanks! -Béa Tiritilli, Santa Ana, CA

2007-06-26 09:42:26 · 2 answers · asked by KolaMama 1

2007-06-26 09:07:54 · 12 answers · asked by Gayle S 1

British = Anglo-Saxon?
Irish = Celtic?

2007-06-25 23:21:33 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-25 21:00:31 · 4 answers · asked by Melissa Breazeale 2

we are not more able to survive than our ancestors the way we are now, if anything we are weaker than our ancestors, if our ancestors were apes/chimpanzees/monkeys/gorillas, whatever, you get my point.

2007-06-25 13:29:03 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm interested in an Archeology major/ Anthropology and I have no idea where any good schools are. HELP!!

2007-06-25 11:51:54 · 4 answers · asked by sshiva33 2

What can someone with a B.A. in Anthropology/ Law & Society work in?

2007-06-25 11:02:21 · 5 answers · asked by Mona 2

2007-06-25 09:42:54 · 6 answers · asked by ed 2

I am trying to figure out what i want to do with my life.

2007-06-25 07:46:32 · 4 answers · asked by Ihzay 2

The discovery of the Kennewick_Man 10 years ago made many American native very uneasy. They refuse to accept that the skull found is not a member of their ethnic race.

Many are ready to beleive its the remain of Captan Picard dead during a spacial cosmos travel between times from future to prehistory.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41268000/jpg/_41268397_kennewick_model_ap250.jpg
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r89/eloybm/picard0.jpg

For others its a proof that indians were not here first. The indians keep adding land dispute to take back land they claming is their due because they are the first native in america.

New dnd research founnd remain of white people from south of Spain in virginia, polynesians from hawai in california, ******* bone type in brazil, precolombian indian(toltec tribe).

Perhaps indians as we know today were just the latest invador conquistator of the prehistory and we just replace them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennewick_Man

2007-06-25 04:05:38 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-25 02:08:01 · 17 answers · asked by music lover07 1

2007-06-24 17:07:14 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've read a lot of his stuff. It is interesting but I wonder how far-fetched it really is. Is anyone a reader of his that knows if his stuff is accurate after researching it yourself?

2007-06-24 11:43:19 · 4 answers · asked by tatereatinmic 3

to make up for their small manhood ... they show off (speeding )

I think its called small dick syndrome.....

2007-06-24 09:42:16 · 6 answers · asked by helen_kives 3

2007-06-24 07:55:59 · 6 answers · asked by Jaime D 1

An ancient Inca skull shows a hole made by a conquistador's musket shot.

http://macrocosm-magbook.blogspot.com/2007/06/hole-in-inca-skull-caused-by-musket.html

2007-06-24 01:10:23 · 2 answers · asked by alvinwriter 2

2007-06-23 22:05:59 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

how are they related? why is anthropology inmportant in that course? what would it help? what benefits would it give?

2007-06-23 17:20:19 · 4 answers · asked by butch manio 1

2007-06-23 17:11:39 · 4 answers · asked by jelliee 1

Belly button topography divides the human species into two distinct populations which I have labelled “innies” and “outies”. I have spent my holidays on beaches all around the world collecting data. I noticed that when I plotted the proportions of innies and outies in indigenous populations against the latitude of their geographic location a startling correlation is observed.
In equatorial regions outies outnumber innies 3 to 1 whereas in Helsinki the situation is reversed and Eskimos are entirely innies (hence inuit).
This leads me to speculate that the innies became dominant in northern populations as a result of the fluff trapping properties of the inny belly button. Local populations of our earliest human ancestors in colder northern climates having a high inny outy ratio were able to acquire significant quantities of fluff which could be spun between opposable finger and thumb to make warm clothes. Nearer the equator the innies architecture conveyed no advantage as clothes were at that time passé.

2007-06-22 23:46:09 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-22 05:03:40 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

The theory of evolution constitutes the so-called scientific basis of various ideologies such as communism, fascism, and racism that are derived from materialist philosophy. This ideological framework is what lies behind its persistent promulgation over the last 130 years

Hitler based his ideas on the superiority of the Aryan race on the theory of evolution. When writing his book, Mein Kampf (My Struggle), he was even inspired by the Darwinist concept of struggle for life. In the posters used in the war years for Nazi propaganda, the Nazis used to designate the human races other than the Aryan race as "De Beestmensch" (The Beast men). It was "Darwinism" that provided the "scientific" grounds for defining human beings as "the beast men".

Karl Marx, the founder of communism, was an atheist who was extremely antagonistic towards religion. Because the theory of evolution deniedthe existence of God, Marx ardently defended this theory. He had such a big fondness for Darwin that he even dedicated his book, Das Kapital, to Darwin and included a handwritten statement "To Darwin, from a true admirer of him, Karl Marx" in the German edition of the book. Marx thought that the theory of evolution was the materialists’ biggest weapon in their war against religion.

The theory of evolution and racism are closely related. The ideology of evolution considers man only as a "species". According to evolution, the inferiority of some races in comparison to other races is very natural. In 1904, an African native named "Ota Benga" was identified as "a primitive species affirming the theory of evolution" and was exhibited in a cage along with apes. In the same manner, the founders of America, who regarded Indians as an "inferior race closer to animals", did not refrain from "hunting" them like animals.

How can you say all the wars and hate is the fault of God or religion?

2007-06-21 15:40:13 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-21 14:56:21 · 9 answers · asked by Teaim 6

So many different inventions.
The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.
It took us 10000 years to put wheels on out suitcases.
Our homes wouldn't be the same without a can opener.
Which single invention made the biggest change for mankind?

2007-06-21 10:24:03 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

It's been asked before but I wondered what your view is.

2007-06-21 06:58:55 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

I like studying all the different european tribes
the quadi/marcomani Suebi / Hasdin/ siling vandals/ scythians / slavs / Rus / Celts / Suiones[swedes] / Caledones / Taexali / britons / goths / Alans / picts and the endless germanic tribes.

I find them alot more interesting than the great civilisations.

But at university you can only study Egypt/Greece and Rome who battled with them.Are'nt these groups a massive part of our past and genes too?

2007-06-20 22:26:29 · 4 answers · asked by rusalka 3

I mean Greeks, Romans, Egyptians have all disappeared...
There don't have any 'pure' descendants.
Today's Native Americans are the same Native Americans that lived 2000 years ago. Some have intermarried but many are pure Indigenous. Do you get my point?

2007-06-20 14:35:46 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

wut does the saying "i've got butterflies in my stomache" really mean?

2007-06-20 08:12:04 · 10 answers · asked by ES84 2

2007-06-19 19:32:24 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Mine has good parking.

2007-06-19 14:25:21 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous