All Europeans are related if you go back just 1,000 years, scientists say.
“A genetic survey concludes that all Europeans living today are related to the same set of ancestors who lived 1,000 years ago. And you wouldn't have to go back much further to find that everyone in the world is related to each other.”
“Family researchers have long known that if you go back far
enough, everyone with a European connection ends up being
related to Charlemagne
The concept was laid out
scientifically more than a decade ago. Now Coop and University of Southern California
geneticist Peter Ralph have come up with the evidence. Their findings were published
on Tuesday in the open-access journal on: none;">PLOS Biology.”
You can read
the full study, "The
Geography of Recent Genetic Ancestry Across Europe," and a less
technical synopsis of
the research on the PLOS
Biology website.
