Professor Gates and Sergeant Crowley distant cousins

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Harvard Prof Gates Is Half-Irish, Related to Cop Who Arrested Him

Henry Louis Gates Jr., the black professor at the center of the racial story involving his arrest outside his Harvard University-owned house, has spoken proudly of his Irish roots.

Strangely enough, he and the Cambridge, Mass., police officer who arrested him, Sgt. James Crowley, both trace their ancestry back to the legendary Niall of the Nine Hostages.

In a PBS series on African-American ancestry that he hosted in 2008, Gates discovered his Irish roots when he found he was descended from an Irish immigrant and a slave girl.

He went to Trinity College in Dublin to have his DNA analyzed. There he found that he shared 10 of the 11 DNA matches with offspring of Niall of the Nine Hostages, the fourth century warlord who created one of the dominant strains of Irish genealogy because he had so many offspring.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=8195564&page=1

[thepizzadude 26]

Its a small world after all....hehehe

[Ban Hammer 14,573]

so it's just a family squabble then.

[aidan80 9]

aye they must both have the gift of the gab alright!

[HAL 9000 96]

So the beer of choice will be Guinness at the WH. Woot!!!

[Niels Bohr 72]

Hmmm

Well, don't most people in the world shared approximately 95% of their genes? It still doesn't prove anything.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Hmmm

Well, don't most people in the world shared approximately 95% of their genes? It still doesn't prove anything.

What is there is prove?

By the way,

Human to human total genetic variation is approximately 0.5%.

http://science.education.nih.gov/supplemen..._variation1.htm

[Niels Bohr 72]

Dam. Off by 4%.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Dam. Off by 4%.

I knew our closest cousins, the chimps, shared around 98% of our DNA. The last bottleneck was not that many generations back, compared to other species. It's amazing the species has made it this far. We are extremely adaptable, but we really are quite fragile and vunerable to the elements and predators.