Professor Turi King is a scientist, presenter, speaker and author who is passionate about communicating science to the public.
Turi uses genetics in the fields of forensics, history and archaeology. She is perhaps best known her work “cracking one of the biggest forensic DNA cases in history” (Globe and Mail, February 2013) leading the genetic analysis that identified the remains of King Richard III.
Turi started her career in archaeology, reading for a degree in Archaeology & Anthropology at Cambridge. She then went to study at the Genetics Department at the University of Leicester, to read for an MSc in Molecular Genetics. She then studied for a PhD in Molecular Genetics on the relationship between the Y chromosome & British surnames, combining forensic DNA techniques with history and genealogy. Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, who invented DNA fingerprinting, was one of her PhD advisors.
The thing about not getting matches is that it will not be the experience of your matches, because they will find you already there when they come later.
Here we are after all the narrative nowdays that origin doesnt matter- only love matters, especially talking about same sex and surogacy aspect of it. Much more complicated issue as people think.
😮😮😮😮IM MIXED RACE..INDIGENOUS AMERICAN..ENGLISH AND IRISH..ENROLLED IN A TRIBE OUT WEST..BOTH MY PARENTS ARE BROWN SKINNED WITH BLACK HAIR..HAD 13 KIDS..I WAS 5TH IN LINE .AND I WAS BORN WITH BLOND HAIR AND FAIR SKIN😅😅😅😅..MOM GOT MAD WHEN ASKED WHO SHE WAS BABYSITTING FOR!!!😅😅
IN THE 50sAND 60s IT WAS COMMON PRACTICE TO TAKE NATIVE AMERICAN KIDS FROM FAMILIES..7 OF MY YOUNGER SIBLINGS WERE TAKEN AWAY..TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER US..
Shame runs deep in religious societies, having children adopted, given up, for whatever reason, not wanting to take accountability, nor wanting to 'dig' or let out 'family secrets'. The shame is probably the largest in especially Catholic societies but in all 'religious' societies. The Church have a lot to answer for, or those who created 'religion', for whatever purpose. So many have suffered unnecessarily and children who never got to know their parents. It is a crime to be honest. Denying these men their true heritage is criminal whichever way we look at it. It is probably a slight shock for the brother and his family but how can you not want to embrace your own blood? Then again, many of us have family who know about us but equally don't care, so one should not be to surprised. Just a shame we cannot as a society come together better than we do. x
Hey! Just wanted to say I enjoy your videos ... and on the note of finding someone from the Caribbean ... many of the Caribbean islands have a history that includes most, if not all of the countries that you mentioned for this guy, so, I hope you were very careful about fact checking everything ... without knowing the story or having watched the entire episode, I can say, his father may not have been from Jamaica, but, he may have lived there, or, whoever told him that his father was from Jamaica might've had the general region correct. I live in the Caribbean, and, a lot of people move back and forth between the islands quite regularly, and, I've also been to the UK and other countries and when I tell them which country (island) I'm from, they would ask which part of Jamaica or Barbados is that? I've also met and heard of a lot of individuals who've moved, or, whose families moved here from many other countries in the world (Sri Lanka, Algeria, China, and others) more recently, so, I personally wouldn't rule out anything.
I was surprised when he said Black - I saw him as an Indonesian-European mix (several models in Bali are mixed and quite successful, and their eyes are similar to his - the mouth and chin not so much), so Seychelles, and Asian Creole makes a whole lotta sense.
I don't like how this show presents its stories. First, she drags it out in a weird way and then draws a dinky family tree on paper. Nothing professional and official to present to the participants. Then she doesn't finish some of them like this one.
I sure hope he said he was sorry to her and admitted that he was horrible to leave his unborn child and a single mother in such a vulnerable situation.
There was a study that suggested virtually 100% of living Europeans and people of European descent are direct descendants of King Edward 3rd of England. By 1750 it was very difficult to find even minor nobles which were not easily traceable back to John of Gaunt through marriages from his lines into noble houses not just in England, but France, Spain, and many other nations and regions.
Europe would go through population booms and crashes. Royal/noble houses usually expanded fairly consistently so as commoner populations crashed, they were often replaced and replenished with overflow from royal and noble houses.
This is such a tragic story and I am also happy that the ships weren't blown up. I am from South Africa where we had a horrible history of racism and classification. In the early 1800s the British colonial government brought Chinese labourers to SA to work on the railways - being called indentured labourers. During apartheid the Chinese were classified as coloured and were subjected to many racial laws and discrimination. Although we have a lot of problems in our society today, I am thankful that apartheid is over
