is there some sort of cutoff point where scientists decided “everyone in Ireland 100,000 years ago will be considered 100% Irish”?
In: 12
There’s an arbitrary cut-off point where we don’t look further back. That’s also how we now have “Americans” instead of “English, French, Dutch” etc people. They technically origin from those countries, but we all agree that after 4-ish generations that doesn’t matter as much.
There’s then genetic markers you can follow that slightly differ based on region, which lets you differentiate between African/ European/ Asian etc
Technically if we didn’t decide on a cut-off point, we could consider everyone African.
Latest Answers