ties broken made anew?
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Topic: ties broken made anew?
Posted By: AlbinoAlien
Subject: ties broken made anew?
Date Posted: 14-Dec-2005 at 11:46
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I was reading several books about ancient greek civilisations, ect. when i kept coming across a problem within the culture. it seems that whenever a son is not sired by the father of a family, it is bieleved that the families genes are dead and broken. in reality, if the father bore daughters instead, she could carry the family ties, something that people would never had considered. so what im saying is that there people have found documents related to certain historical figures stating that there genes were broken from the pool. this im saying may be assumed because no sons were born, but in reality the ties are still alive and well because daughters were alive to keep the family going.
does anyone know of this sort of situation happening? perhaps we should inform the historical community heh. then again, daughters tend to have less influence in the gene pool, or so i assume. maybe this is not true. ------------- people are the emotions of other people (im not albino..or pale!) .....or an alien.. |
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Posted By: Maju
Date Posted: 14-Dec-2005 at 13:07
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The apportation of male and female is the same. All of us have one set
of chromosomes from our father and one from our mother (though they may
have recombined in the meiosis process, so grandparents could be more
or less represented but on random basis). The only diference in the genetic aspect comes from the so-called haploid genealogies, that can only trace purely male-male or female-female lineages and not those that have changed gender at some point (all but two, the farther back you go the more ancestors that aren't represented in such genetic genealogies). For instance, if my genome would analized by such partial methods, I would probably come out to be 100% Basque but in fact I have much foreign blood, just that my purely maternal and purely paternal lineages happen to be local as far as I can trace them. What you say can be only understood from a Patriarchal viewpoint. As it is obvious that biologically females reproduce one's lineage as well as males. The problem is that in most societies they don't carry the surname on to the grandchildren but that's purely conventional, not biological. ------------- 
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