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The most insidious blame-the-Jews concept locates Hitler's anti-Semitism in his own putative Jewish ancestry (for which no reliable evidence exists).
But important though the resuscitated imperial authority undoubtedly was, the real power under the restoration known as Meiji (“Enlightened Rule”) was in the hands of a new generation of forward-looking administrators, who set about abolishing the ancient feudal apparatus in favor of a modern government based on merit rather than ancestry.
Neither coding nor non-coding sequences have experienced sufficient divergence to differentiate whether sequences 'conserved' between D. erecta and D. melanogaster result from functional constraint or shared ancestry (Figures 2, 4).
Ninety-three percent were white and 7% were either black, Hispanic or of Middle Eastern ancestry.
Also, more Madeleine Albright hoopla, this time about her Jewish ancestry: A long article contends that family secrets usually do more harm than good ("lies beget other lies").