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4. iii Plate 6, Codex Xolotl, analysis

5. source: Codex Telleriano-Remensis source: Codex Magliabecchiano iv

6. The Whys and Whats of Family History Research A Genealogist’s Retrospective v

7. The Lambert Study Top three reasons for researching genealogy 1)“to learn about who one is,” or the discovery of self 2)“to know my ancestors as people,” which I interpret as an attempt to personalize history 3)“for posterity” or, to leave a mark vi

8. vii source: Codex Xolotl

9. Xolotl = dog Tomiyauh = tototl + miahuatl Cihuaxochitl = ♀ + flower Chiconcuauh = 7 + eagleXaltocan = xalli + tocatl Icpacxochitl Macuilcoatl Pantzontli No glyph viii

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11. ? x

12. The self- perception dilemma xi

13. Darwinian Skinnerian Popperian Dennettian xii

14. νούς βιός noospherebiosphere xiii

15. νούς (cultural ancestry) βιός (genetic ancestry) noospherebiosphere xiv

16. Cultural ancestry Cultural anthropology Demography Evolutionary psychology History Religion Socialogy Contributes to self-realization by identifying attitudes, political opinions, food preferences, language and other attributes we inherit from our forebears xv

17. EXTRAPOLATDEXTRAPOLATD TRADITIONALTRADITIONAL GENETICGENETIC Methods of Genealogical Research xvi

18. Uncle Huetzin at the Battle of Tenochtitlan xvii

19. νούς (cultural ancestry) βιός (genetic ancestry) noospherebiosphere xviii

20. We Are Defined By Our Culture xix

21. Genetic ancestry Traditional genealogy Molecular genealogy Contributes to self-realization by identifying deep ancestry and many other gene liked characteristics: disease, life-expectancy, cause of death etc. xx

22. Deep Ancestry Identified by unique event polymorphisms – UEPs 153 groups and subgroups Most DNA testing works with single tandem repeats (STRs), not with single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) UEP is a marker resulting from a mutation so rare that anyone who has, it inherited it from the same source. Identified by marking SNPs STR: short tandem repeat. A segment of DNA with a repeating sequence of base pairs SNP: single nucleotide polymorphism. A slowly mutating locus used to define haplotypes xxi

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