Comments by "starventure" (@starventure) on "Is Everyone a Descendant of Royalty?" video.

  1. A family tree shaped like a diamond...
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  2. Призрак Отца Гамлета Unlikely. The dynasties of Egypt were extremely inbred to the point of the Spanish Habsburgs, and did not practice any exogamy officially. However...there is the chance through illegitimate children and cuckoldry. That is non-canonical history however, so it should not be depended upon.
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  3. mixererunio One need only look at the official portrait of Carlos II in the Prado museum to understand why repetitive inbreeding over several generations is a big no-no.
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  4. Stack Loot Dunno, are you a glad-he-ate-her?
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  5. Ben McKean If we use the Spanish Habsburgs as a comparative, Muslims should have died out by now due to genetic devolution. That they still exist says that there must be just enough exogenous marriages to keep it all going. It is possible, but there is going to be more health issues than the normal population. The cure for this would be eugenic based marriages.
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  6.  Ben McKean  The Spanish Habsburgs may be a more extreme example, but it is still a cautionary tale of the dangers of inbreeding. If the Muslims are practicing first cousin marriages within every generation, it is inevitable that they will suffer the same fate as Carlos the 2nd. An infusion of non related and genetically healthy gametes would help to mitigate that, however.
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  7. I still don't trust the genealogical claims of Settipani, though. Charlemagne is one thing, antiquity is a whole other bowl of fish.
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  8.  @micheldejong1813  The sad thing is that there are a ton of fraudsters and true believer types out there who put up trees that are blatantly false. One of the reasons I like Wikitree is that a connection has to be reviewed before it is allowed to appear as fact.
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  9. Patrik Turek Not all migrations interacted with each other. Separation combined with different geographic, climatological, and dietary circumstances created races.
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  10. Chernobyl Why?
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  11. escapefromobamastan I have found that any American who has upper class colonial ancestry from Virginia and Maryland is typically able to lay claim to descent from the pre 1450 nobility of Europe. Quite a few cadet lines of the noble families ended up there because of land patents given out by the English crown.
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  12. I like this video, but I have to ask why you didn’t mention the effects of the demographic contractions of the 14th and 15th centuries. They mean much more to why Charlemagne is ancestral to all Europeans than just the passage of time alone.
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  13. The8th Gamer The Y chromosome is the only piece of genetic information storage in our species that is reasonably protected against recombination. No other piece of DNA, even the mighty mitochondrial DNA, has the protection that the Y does. This is why it is the golden standard for confirmation of same gender lineage.
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  14. Darth Sawlex Better be careful then. If you go and commit a robbery and leave some snot or sweat behind at the scene of the crime, all it takes is just one of us to throw you into the pokey via familial dna matching.
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  15. uyiuit It was not Holy, it was not Roman, and was never an empire. Sorry, but you are disqualified.
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  16. rate eightx First dog of Venice? But there has been many dogs who have lived in Venice....
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  17. rate eightx A healthy sense of humor helps you live longer...
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