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...Blue eyes in humans are also commonly due to a single recessive gene. Dark-eyed people may have this gene in its suppressed state, obtaining it from an ancestor so remote that his blue eyes have been forgotten. When two such people marry, one-fourth of their children (statistically) will have blue eyes...
...Stuckert's estimates can be attacked in detail, but sociology offers little comfort to white Americans who try to maintain that a single African ancestor, however remote, makes a man Negro. About 60 generations have passed since the heyday of the Roman Empire; so an American of European ancestry is descended from 2 60 (1,152,921,504,606,846,976) ancestors at the time of the Emperor Hadrian. This immense figure is not to be taken literally, but it surely means that people with ancestors who lived in the Roman Empire, including England and part of Germany...
Everybody's Ancestor. Schlechta was able to prove what scholars have long suspected, that Elisabeth suppressed letters in which Nietzsche spoke ill of her and forged others to prove her authority as her brother's only trusted interpreter. Nietzsche wrote many affectionate letters to his mother; Elisabeth dropped ink blots on the word "Mother" and published the letters as if addressed to herself. Schlechta also spotted other frauds with the help of a pack of notebooks that Elisabeth had hidden under attic eaves (Nietzsche had a habit of drafting letters to friends in his notebooks before sending them...
Freed at last from the clutches of his sister and her racist friends, Nietzsche may find his place in Germany and Europe not as a national but as a universal ancestor of a troubled...
Jews, Christians and Moslems recognize Abraham as a common spiritual ancestor, and all three faiths look to the Genesis account of how the Lord told him: "Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: and I will make of thee a great nation.'' What were Abraham's country and kindred like, and what sort of land did God show him? Modern scholarship, drawing on the latest findings of archaeology and textual research, is able to propose answers to those questions...