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From: "Ken Nordtvedt" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Open and Closed Genealogy and DNA population LIMITATIONS
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 10:40:41 -0700
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From Malcolm's links I just got done reading a rather loooong but well
spoken paper by a Catherine Nash (who seems to have an
intellectual/political chip on her shoulder) on genetic genealogy, its
cultural implications, and all that. I have to just share one gem I picked
up from this paper. Apparently many of us suffer from "epistemophilia" ---
what a wonderful coined word defined as being driven by "the lusty search
for knowledge of origins". Having spent four decades doing research on
cosmology and the origins of the universe and all physical law, and more
recently as scientific tools became available getting involved in research
on the deep ancestors who converged to produce me, I plead doubly guilty of
suffering from "epistemophilia."

Ken


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