Perhaps the most important bit of science on race

[Craig234]

Forgot I was in a Craig thread.. now unsubscribing.

Make it easy, put me on ignore, as I am doing with you.

 

[Infohawk]

Make it easy, put me on ignore, as I am doing with you.

How many people do you have on your ignore list right now?

 

[davmat787]

How many people do you have on your ignore list right now?

Why do you think the forums kept going down until they upgraded? It is the only reasonable explanation.

 

[gingermeggs]

Because Marx believed in evolution does not make the results of tracking Human Mitochondrial DNA and Human Y chromosomal DNA a "Marxist" view on evolution.

Yeah and your point is?????
you u misunderstood what I said!

 

[exdeath]

Was his name Abel and was he the only survivor of an interstellar ship wreck carrying a massive biomechanical terraforming interstellar weapons platform capable of genetic progenation?

:awe:

Somewhere there is a woman named Miang pulling strings behind the political curtains to cause a nuclear showdown between the west and middle east to end our current Zeboim Era to cleanse the contaminated gene pool which has grown unfit for Deus.

 

[Whiskey16]

In that show however, they claimed native Americans had DNA showing they were hybrid Northern Euro and Asian.

No, there is no such genetic evidence of European relations nor of any east-west migration route from Europe to North America.

All that has ever been presented are papers by a tiny minority of anthropologists for indirect assumptions of relationship between some tool work similiarities. Very weak stuff.

As it stands -- only multiple migrations from west-east.

 

[Whiskey16]

I have had an anthropology professor tell me I have Neanderthal DNA simply by examining my head.

You missed the joke.

No such quacks have been scholarly acceptable for well over half a century.

 

[Braznor]

Ugh, why do people like rabid instantly devolve threads like these into racism?

Its culture which is more relevant.

 

[CanOWorms]

Ugh, why do people like rabid instantly devolve threads like these into racism?

Its culture which is more relevant.

Thread title: "Perhaps the most important bit of science on race." OP also mentions racial divides, etc. Nothing on culture though.

 

[Whiskey16]

Its culture which is more relevant.

Careful, there. Top Gear may return to India.

 

[Craig234]

Thread title: "Perhaps the most important bit of science on race." OP also mentions racial divides, etc. Nothing on culture though.

Yes, because this science is very useful for helping people overcome the divides of race - feeling like other groups are some sort of aliens, increasing fear and hate a lot by recognizing that everyone is a lot closer from one race than people often recognize, separated not that long ago - but the genetics say nothing about cultural divides.

Unfortunately, that's another issue to deal with, to get people to 'appreciate diversity' and 'love their fellow man' and such rather than 'hate the other cultures'.

If the genetics do say anything about culture it might be that suspicion and a desire to kill 'competing cultures' helped groups survive in the past.

In which case genetics could be contributing to war and conflict.

 

[Throckmorton]

The weird thing is that even though we know how long the human populations have been separated from one another, there are still people who say there's no such thing as race. For most of the time homo sapiens has existed, we have been separated into regional populations, which themselves are separated by ethnicity, then by tribes, and villages... Which is why you can tell peoples' races, ethnicities, and regional origins by their appearance. How you want to define race is just a matter of granularity.