Nice.
 
Have some alms houses:
 
 

Do the Numpy Nump?
 
 
 
ps: That last pic reminds me of when we played in Falmouth (at the Princess Pavillion). Ridiculously scenic town. The PP itself was even more awesome.

eph221
Qu.  do the British have a higher number of neanderthal genes than continental europe?  Just curious....

Sometimes ... with that rock press talking like they are God's gift to women ... and the rest of Europe is a bunch of worthless slaves!
 
Gets boring hearing how bad the rest of music out of Europe is, even when some of the British stuff is clearly a copy!
 
That would NEVER EVER happen at the Coffee House, though ... we're gentlemen, here!

 
What on earth does one's nationality have to do with one's genetic makeup?
 
 

Companies that offer genetic testing services for finding out about ancestry use several different testing methods. Lineage-based approaches analyze DNA on the Y chromosome, which is passed down almost unchanged from fathers to sons, or else analyze mitochondrial DNA, which is passed down nearly unchanged from mothers to their children. Small genetic changes in the Y chromosome occur as this information is passed from successive fathers to sons. These changes, if they persist, become markers of descent. Likewise, as mitochondrial DNA is passed down, slight mutations occur, and if these mutations persist, they also become genetic markers that can help distinguish one matrilineal line from another.
Taking these tests is straightforward. A person swipes the inside of his or her cheek for a saliva sample, which is sent to a lab. There, the DNA is extracted, amplified, and analyzed. It is then compared to and matched with DNA samples from a reference database of haplotypes – a set of closely linked genes or DNA polymorphisms – that have been identified in specific populations. If a person’s DNA sequences match certain sequences in the database, the information can be used to determine the populations with which that person shares maternal or paternal ancestry.

Instead of asking a bunch of musicians on a company product forum why don't you just google it or ask a more anthropology oriented forum. I'm sure there is much info about this online available thanks to the human genome project.
 
Or were you just trying to take a dig at our Brit members?

BTW, and I'm no biolomogist but, from my understanding of the spread of both genuses that continental Europe would logically have the higher rate (which even in those who present those MOST neanderthal genes is minimal... I think under 3%) simply because neanderthals were predominant for a loooong time on the continent and that's where they first would have ecountered homosapiens (so where the most interbreeding would have occurred which was minimal anyway over the longest period of time) and I've never seen anything (thus far) stating that neanderthals managed to cross over water to Britain on their own (I could be completely wrong in that).
 
I believe the most activity of the neanderthal genus before they became extinct was in and around the area of modern day France.
 
So therefore, in my muddled understanding of the prehistory of man, it would make sense that any neanderthal genes only made it to the British Isles within homosapiens who had interbred with neanderthals and their generational offspring are the ones who carried it across the channel.
 
I am only a (VERY) casual student of this crap so I am likely... well full of crap... but it is very interesting stuff.
 
The new findings about how aboriginal North Americans arrived though are even more interesting.
 
Even MORE interesting than that are how the Pacific Island and Australian aborigines made their crossings.
 
We are all one people.

 
My question still stands eph.
 
You seem to be (deliberately?) confusing nationality with genealogy/ethnicity.
 
An ever-growing number of British citizens are (or their parents/grandparents are) originally from parts of the world where the likelihood of their ancestors interbreeding with Neanderthals would have been extremely small.
 
I really don't see what point you're trying to make.
 
In a different life, I was studying to become an evolutionary biologist (and still read at length about the subject), so if you want a genuine discussion on this fascinating topic I'm happy to try and contribute.
 
 
 

Beepster
 
Even MORE interesting than that are how the Pacific Island and Australian aborigines made their crossings.
 

Possibly a land bridge: http://sahultime.monash.edu.au/fullScreen.html
 
 

SteveStrummerUK
 
What on earth does one's nationality have to do with one's genetic makeup?
 
 

I'm not an expert by any means, but Chinese people, for example, generally seem to be genetically different to African People ?