Incest and Folk-Dancing: Two things to be avoided - Professor Steve Jones

How closely are we related to each other, and how recently do we all share an ancestor? The answer to those questions is: closer and more recently than you might think.
Professor Jones discusses patterns of relatedness in ancient and modern populations and how they can be measured from the records, from surnames, and - more and more - from the DNA. The pedigree hidden in every genome reveals some quite unexpected patterns of kinship and suggests that some may be very relevant to the chances of disease. However, the evidence that close kinship is breaking down is, in this modern and mobile world, very persuasive and it may be that the most important event in human evolution, and even in human health, was the invention of the bicycle.
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[@FirefoxisredExplorerisblueGoog]

Haha, Professor Steve Jones is the most British lecturer I have yet come across on this channel, and I love it. He's hilarious, entertaining, and informing - I'm quickly becoming a fan.

[@theclubvids]

I've been looking for this college my whole life.

[@8698gil]

H'e's a wonderful speaker. Very entertaining. I really enjoyed this.

[@briangarrow448]

I believe if you check the rates for inherited genetic diseases in some populations that practice inbreeding you can see the results of this issue. Some cultures have been playing dice with their children by encouraging cousin marriage.

[@adhipmitra]

He is a brilliant speaker.

[@nikkia3d]

Wonderfully witty speaker! "Triumph of the mongrels" indeed...

[@MoerreNoseshine]

Funny AND very interesting - why can't all lectures be like this one?

[@NYGGJELEBEITE]

The funniest video title I have seen so far.

[@11561Thundercat]

this was a fantastic lecture!!

[@WildBillCox13]

Surnames and progenitors. The fewer surnames the more inbred. Insular communities so closely related that only a single surname survives. This is really interesting stuff. Pursuant to the progenitor subject . . . I once asked a guy "how many Cox in the world?" His answer was odd, but heartfelt: "Punchline Overload. Norman Coordinate . . . BEEEEEEEEEEEP!"

[@hoomalumalu]

great lecture!

[@RangKlos]

this is a wonderful piece of wisdom. thanks everyone involved in putting it here.

[@praaht18]

Very interesting and very witty.

[@CandideSchmyles]

Interesting indeed. However as last questioner queried on a common ancestor of all people in Armageddon circa 3000BC I find this a bit silly and an over-reliance on statistics over common sense. Perhaps soon we will have enough test results to clarify.

[@Kurtlane]

I agree that incest is very damaging, as many many cases show. But I don't quite understand why. I understand that it brings bad recessive genes to the surface (which is not necessarily bad in the long run), but other than that... Incest or no incest, shouldn't two genetically healthy parents produce genetically healthy offsprings?

[@flibbertygibbet]

+Kurtlane Generally they do. In fact the occasional incest baby is most often healthy unless there are some dangerous recessive genes running in the family. It's when small populations are really inbred. Think of European royalty especially the Hapsburgs or think of the Amish who marry other Amish usually within their own community and have a high incidence of Dwarfism as well as a variety of metabolic disorders. Generally marrying outside your family increases genetic diversity. Look at the way some pure bred dogs have problems mutts don't always have.

[@aztecmixtli]

From a biblical perpective. We have a Creator and he said, be fruitful and multiply and replenish the whole Earth. But humans rebelled against him and united under one king, Nimrod, and stayed in one place (tower of babel). Then the Gods said let us go down there and confound their language. So now people were force to spread across the world because God will get what he wants and there is a punishment for those who disobey. Committing incest is in direct disobedience to God's will. God bidded Abraham to take his wife and move far away but he only moved a little way upstream. You see, there are inherit problems when fathers do not correct their sons whom commit atrocities and get away with it because they might be rich and own a town. God want everyone to welcome a weary traveler. He made laws the be able to the travel the world. You could also win brides in time of War; lots of ways to marry someone outside your immediate surroundings.

@@aztecmixtli Jesus loves anal

[@lucusharden4093]

@ 🤐

[@jeffreyrichardson]

Scott sits on a stool what was the name of it scott? The flecks of Jody blood

[@lucusharden4093]

My cat stud on my tablet and put this on, !!! I'm just going to run with it !!! See where its goings ,

[@erniehudson1]

Fascinating! But I think at least we have to exclude the Australian Aborigine population from this common ancestor 3000 BC!

[@fuckedoveredbyincest]

to little to late,for god knows how many.

[@praaht18]

11:33

[@Sagacity61]

Hahahahahaha.... Professor Steve is trolling the creationists.... Hahahahahaha.... You ol' fox !!

[@lucusharden4093]

I just thought!!! Out of all the humans that have ever existed, Non had died from covid-19!!! Until October 2019 That's a lot of people, Thanks ( Wang Yanyi ) We all have a similar Ace2 receptor 😷

[@jeffreyrichardson]

Scott says survival Michael and Jodi roll joints Douglas rest in peace

[@neil5568]

Its an old Billy Connolly joke