BlindBoyGrunt
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African.
Where are your feet from?
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ThePrisoner
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Orient. Well that explains my penchant for Chinese food 
WoodallServices
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“The Shire” by the looks of it!
turnoffsaysthestar
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I have African my wife has Egyptian.
HarryVegas
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Interesting thread. My DNA is mainly Irish, with other traces from all over the place but my sister was told that several thousand years before the Irish link, our clan had moved there from the far north - probably somewhere like Siberia - basically I'm part Eskimo (which doesn't prevent my ignorance of the correct word - Eskimo or Inuit?). The resemblance had never struck me before, but I googled Eskimo woman and the first result was the spit of my mum!
Anyway I digress - this might take a while, for which, my apologies. This IS linked to feet/ankles, I promise!
The remote Scottish island of St Kilda was finally evacuated in 1930 but provides an interesting example of human evolution in practice. The people there rarely came into contact with outsiders and led a very tough, hand-to-mouth existence. For food, they relied on being able to climb sheer cliff faces to take birds' eggs and sometimes the birds themselves. When they moved to the mainland, several of the menfolk got jobs in quarries, climbing the faces.
Anyway, last year while in Skye, I was talking to a local young woman who said her boyfriend had broken his ankle and when getting x-rayed, the specialist said he'd never come across an ankle joint like it. When it came to light where his grandparents had come from, the specialist said it was the first time he'd personally come across it but that as a result of their lifestyle and its needs, the St Kildans had adapted over time and had all formed double-jointed ankles, a feature many of their descendants still carry to this day.
Anyway I digress - this might take a while, for which, my apologies. This IS linked to feet/ankles, I promise!
The remote Scottish island of St Kilda was finally evacuated in 1930 but provides an interesting example of human evolution in practice. The people there rarely came into contact with outsiders and led a very tough, hand-to-mouth existence. For food, they relied on being able to climb sheer cliff faces to take birds' eggs and sometimes the birds themselves. When they moved to the mainland, several of the menfolk got jobs in quarries, climbing the faces.
Anyway, last year while in Skye, I was talking to a local young woman who said her boyfriend had broken his ankle and when getting x-rayed, the specialist said he'd never come across an ankle joint like it. When it came to light where his grandparents had come from, the specialist said it was the first time he'd personally come across it but that as a result of their lifestyle and its needs, the St Kildans had adapted over time and had all formed double-jointed ankles, a feature many of their descendants still carry to this day.