Evidence of Italians' extraordinary genetic diversity dates back 19K years

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24 pointspseudolus4 comments

And we had read Mediterranean diet and lifestyle which involves lot of walking is responsible for their better health outcomes

How much of that could be simply genetic diversity?

As a child of two Italian immigrants, I can say that I am definitely not immune to the fattening effects of the typical western diet. There doesn't seem to be anything magical about my genetics, at least in that regard.

Will the real Italian please stand up.

People will still give money to figure out their genetic ancestry even though people have been in flux and on the move for over 20 thousand years. Arguably the biggest bogus “science” out there.

People having been on the move for all of human history doesn’t mean that ancestry doesn’t exist. There is nothing bogus about reading data from your genome and using statistics to pinpoint which parts of the earth your ancestors came from. It’s math.

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