Serious question cause you seem to know about this: why not? Why wouldn't women have that just like men do? I mean ancestry tests work for women too I assume
It has to do with the difference between tracking x and Y chromosomes. Ys pass mostly unchanged from father to son. If you believe in science then women don’t receive a Y chromosome. They can trace maternal lineage through mitochondrial tests but they don’t work the same way as a y-dna test.
Yeah, like ERansom said. Otherwise, there is Wikipedia: "Y-DNA is passed solely along the patrilineal line, from father to son, while mtDNA is passed down the matrilineal line, from mother to offspring of both sexes."
Males have genetic continuity that can be traced to a distant male ancestor that originates their common haplogroup. Women do not.
Serious question cause you seem to know about this: why not? Why wouldn't women have that just like men do? I mean ancestry tests work for women too I assume
It has to do with the difference between tracking x and Y chromosomes. Ys pass mostly unchanged from father to son. If you believe in science then women don’t receive a Y chromosome. They can trace maternal lineage through mitochondrial tests but they don’t work the same way as a y-dna test.
Neat. Thanks
Yeah, like ERansom said. Otherwise, there is Wikipedia: "Y-DNA is passed solely along the patrilineal line, from father to son, while mtDNA is passed down the matrilineal line, from mother to offspring of both sexes."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup