11th March 2013, 10:46 PM
I have a relative who works in DNA research - he made one very good point about all of this, and a point all DNA specialists readily acknowledge - a reasonably high proportion of humans have a proclivity towards having extra-marital affairs and always have done (this is not behaviour from which males, females or members of royal families are exempt - and remember children fathered by a paterfamilias but not by the materfamilias are often absorbed silently into households without a word said, if the traffic is in the other direction how is the Paterfamilias to know he's been a cuckhold?) Therefore that chap they took the swab off, when one marches back through his forbears, the statistical probability of him not being a descendant of Richard goes through the roof.
It could be added that due to this very natural human conduct none of us are who we presume we are - nature does not care a whit for Surnames.
Now - who's your daddy?
It could be added that due to this very natural human conduct none of us are who we presume we are - nature does not care a whit for Surnames.
Now - who's your daddy?