# Earwax and ancestry

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 27, 2012, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earwax-and-ancestry/639072 "2012-10-27T21:28:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earwax-and-ancestry/639072/1 "2012-10-27T21:28:24Z")

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According to [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earwax) wikipedia article - “Cerumen type has been used by anthropologists to track human migratory patterns, such as those of the Inuit”

Is there more details available for this ? Also - does migratory patterns based on linguistics match up with the results of this pattern ?