• Question: Are we all technically genetically related?

    Asked by anon-174839 to Alex, Carl, Hayley, Melanie, Tim, Yewande on 18 Jun 2018.
    • Photo: Alex Seeney

      Alex Seeney answered on 18 Jun 2018:

      Yes, probably more closely/recently than we realise. Research suggests that if we went back about 1000 years, everyone alive in Europe at that time could potentially be an ancestor of all Europeans. The same could be said for the whole human race if we went back about 3400 years.

    • Photo: Carl Barford

      Carl Barford answered on 19 Jun 2018:

      Mothers can be tracked through genetic information in your cells. Scientists say a small band of people left Africa 70,000 years ago, and one was everyone’s great…. grandmother

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