If some of you say you are all decended from immigrants in England, then how do you explain cheddar man?

Question

Someone commented that a true bloodline from your continent would be "millions to one",

But then how do you explain the remains of a man from 7150 BCE in Somerset and from a sample of only twenty people in the neighboring area, 2 children had exact matches to the mitochondrial DNA and one match with a single mutation?
Doesn't this proove that many of you are descended from the hunter-gatherer tribes dating from before the last ice age?

Answer 1

Maybe it was because they'd eaten some cheddar cheese?

But you're right - most people in England are descended from the original inhabitants. Immigration has always been a relatively small percentage and has been absorbed into the original population by and large. So most people here are descended from both the original inhabitants AND immigrants

Answer 2

It doesn't prove a thing. The samples size is too small to make a firm conclusion. Mitochondrial DNA is passed on via female linage (unlike cell DNA which is a 50:50 split) and so is highly conserved. Therefore if you had a large enough sample of people you would find the same mitochondrial DNA code in an individuals who consider themselves 100% Chinese, Spanish or South African.

Hell my Great grandmothers from Somerset so my mitochondrial DNA may just match Cheddar mans.

Answer 3

It sounds like people in Somerset need to get out more if they haven't gone anywhere in 7,150 years.
Seriously, I think we have a lot to learn about DNA sampling still. My family found out that we were direct descendants of the Richard Clough from Denbigh, Wales. That was according to DNA testing of the male lineage. They can't connect the dots yet, but the DNA says we are descendants. It is interesting but I don't think it is conclusive yet.

Answer 4

I thought the Cheddar man was Tony Blair,,he's the most cheesy man I have ever seen,,and I mean the most stinky cheese ever invented

Answer 5

cheddar man....um.... from Wisconsin, the cheese state?

Kidding.

I'm about 100% German bloodstock, but my family has been here for hundreds of years. However, even the Germans came from somewhere, as, presumably, did the cheddar man. The question is only how far you can go back, not whether you have a 'true bloodline'.

Answer 6

Everyone is an immigrant from somewhere if you go back far enough. all the PC nonsense is just that, nonsense.

Have you ever noticed how many Ethnic English look quite similar

Answer 7

Different skins to identify which part u come from ..instantely

What else could be done ..we are the same species though..

I dont have prove but make sense

Answer 8

If you go back far enough there was a period in human history where the human race was reduced to a mere thousand or so members after a supervolcano blocked out years of sun effectively cutting the food chain. So, don't all you BNP dickheads look stupid going on about keeping your "race" "pure".

Answer 9

At one time wasn't the land mass of the earth just one continent until it was split apart by some "event"?

Answer 10

Cheddar man was the first to make cheese. Every one knows that