McGee Utility

[1798]

Haplogroups R and Q are both descendants of the P haplogroup who were around 25,000 to 35,000 years ago.Im am in the R haplogroup. How come when I check my haplotype against someone who is in the Q haplogroup that I only get a GD of 10,000 YBP?I used the default settings on the McGee site.
Can anyone tell me how accurate the McGee Utility is?
As well as that I have always thought that the Native Americans look like a little bit like some Asians and thats where they came from.
I dont know anyone in the Isles that looks like Asians but some people insist that thats where we came from.

[girlperson1]

You can't tell a Book by it's Cover

Looks are almost always deceiving. For the most part, one really can't tell where someone comes from simply by looking at them.

Someone once told me I look like a "typical german". (Someone else thought I looked Irish). I look at my family members, all germans, and NONE of us look the same. I have auburn hair, extremely white, nearly transparent skin and tri-colour eyes (gun steel blue/gray/hazel mix). My father has black hair, olive skin and green eyes and my mother has auburn hair, piercing blue eyes and light skin, but not transparent like mine. My cousins, look like my father (dark with light eyes) and some of them look like no one... In some cases you can figure out who looks the same but you can't guess the relationship nor what country they were born in. Most of my family members look "very sephardic" or even arabic and yet they were all born in Germany and have German ancestors that go back many generations. My maternal grandmother was a VERY DARK woman but she married a blue eyed red head who apparently had very strong autosomal genes..

[1798]

Are you saying that there is no difference between an African and an Irishman.Does the whole human race look the same to you?A lot of people have come here from Eastern Europe in the last ten years and we can tell the difference.The point I was making in my post was that the American Indians came from Asia at least 12,000 years ago from what I have read.I have seen pictures of the American Indians and they dont look like their Western European cousins.Im not saying it in a bad sense.
Spencer Wells reckons that we all came out of Africa we have all a different skin colour.

[girlperson1]

Are you saying that there is no difference between an African and an Irishman.Does the whole human race look the same to you?A lot of people have come here from Eastern Europe in the last ten years and we can tell the difference.The point I was making in my post was that the American Indians came from Asia at least 12,000 years ago from what I have read.I have seen pictures of the American Indians and they dont look like their Western European cousins.Im not saying it in a bad sense.
Spencer Wells reckons that we all came out of Africa we have all a different skin colour.

Our ancestors all came from Africa so at the human level there is no difference between an African and an Irishman. There were different migrations out of Africa but that's where we all came from. We look different because of the environment our ancestors settled in as well as diet. Isolated groups of people developed distinct features that sometimes allows someone to guess their origin but it's mostly a guess unless you're VERY GOOD at studying someone's skull shape in which case you might come close to guessing a person's ancestral origin. American indians, asians or pacific islanders, most people cannot tell the difference by looking at them.

[gtc]

American indians, asians or pacific islanders, most people cannot tell the difference by looking at them.

I think that depends largely on where one lives and how much interaction one has had had with a variety of cultures and ethnic groups.

[Daniel72]

As well as that I have always thought that the Native Americans look like a little bit like some Asians and thats where they came from.
I dont know anyone in the Isles that looks like Asians but some people insist that thats where we came from.

I have seen pictures of the American Indians and they dont look like their Western European cousins.

I am not quiet sure what you mean.
I understand it, that you say:

- By Y-chromosoms, native Americans must be closer to Europeans than to Asians (Because R (the dominant Haplogroup of Europe) and Q (the dominant Haplogroup of native americans) are both offspring of Haplogroup P.) but their faces look more Asian than European.

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The thing is, that "looks" are influenced by autosomal DNA aswell as Climates and diet.

Also, there is the "founder effect" and all that.
If there is a population A and you take a few settlers that will build a new nation B, then A and B wont be genetical indentical, even if B was taken from A. They will become different. Because the B Settlers had not been representative of A.

NAtive Americans come from Sibiria. They must have had contact to South East Asians too. They possibly intermixed and got South East Asians Autosomal DNA into their genpool.

Its also estaminated that the native americans had been bottlenecked several times. Once by a plague (that almost only bloodtype Zero people survived) and another time possibly by something that caused that only people who had no fear of heights did survive.

These relatively few people then populated 2 continents.