So we learn at least two things: the Genesis account of Abraham as father of
both Isaac and Ishmael has true in more than just a spiritual sense; and all
of the hypotheses about British Israel, the Khazars, mongrel races, etc.,
are proven to be just what I have always maintained--purest nonsense.
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http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000509/tech_diaspora.html
Jewish Gene Study Reveals Origins
By Discovery.com News
May 9, 2000 - A genetic analysis of Jewish populations has revealed new
clues about their Middle Eastern origins and new details about how the group
spread throughout the world, according to today's New York Times.
The findings suggest that despite the fact that they dispersed out of Israel
over 2,000 years ago, Jews have remained remarkably faithful to "the
tribe" - there has been little interbreeding with other groups.
Also challenged are claims that the Jewish population is largely composed of
outside groups who converted to the faith.
The results also suggest that, out of all other groups in the world, Jews
are most closely related to Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese, with whom
they descended from a common population 4,000 years ago.
The findings, which were published in today's issue of the Proceedings of
the American Academy of Sciences, were reported in the New York Times.
The study, which was led by Michael F. Hammer of the University of Arizona,
compared the chemical sequence of the Y chromosome among men worldwide. The
Y chromosome, which contains the genes that make men men, is passed down
from father to son in more or less intact form.
As a result, examining its genes paints an almost unbroken picture of one's
paternal heritage. Genes in the Y chromosome do change over time among
different groups, however, so comparing the Y chromosomes of distinct
populations provides a window into how closely they are related.
Based on these comparisons, Hammer identified 19 main variations in the Y
chromosome worldwide, according to the New York Times. Jews and Arabs
descended from a group that shared eight of these lineages.
This ancestral Arab-Jewish population, in turn, may have descended from the
neolithic groups who first developed farming in the Near East.
Hammer closely examined the DNA of Ashkenazi Jews, who settled in large
numbers throughout Europe. Despite having been surrounded by non-Jews for 80
generations, the rate of genetic mixture with Europeans was only half a
percent per generation, according to Hammer.
"It could be that wherever Jews were, they were very much isolated," Hammer
told the New York Times.
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