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Using a genetic fingerprint, researchers at the University of Utah's Huntsman Cancer Institute tracked the founder genetic mutation - a mutation that has been traced from many individuals in the present-day population to a common ancestor - back to the Frys. The Fry mutation has not been found in other places that researchers have looked - not in England, Denmark or Germany - further confirming that the mutation started with the Fry immigrants. (The researchers believe the genetic change either originated with George Fry or his wife, or that it began with a Fry in England, who died before passing it further...
...general public, the organization collects samples from various indigenous groups around the globe in an effort to understand genetic diversity and answer the question of where humans come from. “The key thing to understand is that the human population is interconnected and there is no one ancestor,” Sabeti said. “We are an amalgamation of different races...
That's my mother's given name. Actually, it goes back to my ancestor Lord North, possibly the worst politician in the history of England. He's the one who blew the Colonies. I come by my interest in feckless politics honestly...
That's my mother's given name. Actually, it goes back to my ancestor Lord North, possibly the worst politician in the history of England. He's the one who blew the Colonies. I come by my interest in feckless politics honestly...
...Clinton had been Governor of New York State for 21 years and Vice President for eight; young DeWitt was George's right hand. Both Clintons had spent their careers opposing Federalism, attacking the Constitution when it was up for ratification and joining Thomas Jefferson's small-government Republican Party (ancestor of today's Democrats). But by 1812, the Federalists had lost three presidential elections in a row, and Clinton had become convinced that his party had a glass ceiling for non-Virginians (Uncle George having been relegated to the vice presidency by the rise of James Madison). Most important, Federalists...