A Setback for Racists: Among Many Peoples, Little Genomic Variety

[AlHayatZween 2]

[one...two...tree 2,762]

[Bobby+Umit 161]

"can't we all just be humans?"

"Hi, my name is Bobby, I am a Human, from planet Earth, nice to meet you!"

[one...two...tree 2,762]

"can't we all just be humans?"

"Hi, my name is Bobby, I am a Human, from planet Earth, nice to meet you!"

I saw cyborg in an earlier photo. I'm not convinced.

[EstebanTrabajos 7]

Three peas in a pod? What poppycock!

Now that I have got past that, I'll read the rest, but with a jaundiced eye...

me doesn't understand poppycock

[Peikko 1,575]

it's 'English' for a bunch of #######

[EstebanTrabajos 7]

ahhhhhh poppycock! nice!

[Bobby+Umit 161]

"can't we all just be humans?"

"Hi, my name is Bobby, I am a Human, from planet Earth, nice to meet you!"

I saw cyborg in an earlier photo. I'm not convinced.

now i have to hunt you down..

You wouldn't happen to know a John Connor, would you?

Edited June 25, 2009 by Bobby_Umit

[one...two...tree 2,762]

"can't we all just be humans?"

"Hi, my name is Bobby, I am a Human, from planet Earth, nice to meet you!"

I saw cyborg in an earlier photo. I'm not convinced.

now i have to hunt you down..

You wouldn't happen to know a John Connor, would you?

Great. I've got the Guvanator nipping at my heels too. Maybe it's time to put in a call to Sarah.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Interesting article, thank you for posting it.

Is anyone familiar with the Genographic Project? I participated in that a few years ago to determine my specific DNA haplotype. It is a fascinating study and in many ways supports the general direction of this article - that there were 3 major migratory 'waves' as well as a number of minor ones. The quoted article here is very general - there are more specifics available at the Genographic Project website:

https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/...phic/index.html

[HAL 9000 96]

The reality is that from a genetic point of view, we are all the same. Our differences really are visual.

Poppycock! The genetic differences are huge. You can identify a person's race from a blood sample.

Here's one example of a genetic difference I was able to google in 5 seconds.

Gotta love those Affimetrix Chips. They used to cost $800/run.

FYI... if we are roughly 99.8% genetically identical to our closest relative species, chimps... imagine what that makes us to other ** sapiens. Sure... there's enough variety even at that 0.2% heterogeneity, and its likely still present in what is a lower figure for intra-species variability for us...

[GaryC 7]

I remember a television show that said the reason for our lack of genetic diversity is because of a genetic "choke point" about 25 thousand years ago. Some dramatic event almost wiped us all out (I forget what it was) and we went down to a few thousand people. Everyone alive today is descended from those survivors.

[Down With PMP 0]

I remember a television show that said the reason for our lack of genetic diversity is because of a genetic "choke point" about 25 thousand years ago. Some dramatic event almost wiped us all out (I forget what it was) and we went down to a few thousand people. Everyone alive today is descended from those survivors.

Weather.

[HAL 9000 96]

I think they pushed the figure back to about 75K years ago. More or less around the time we supposedly left Africa.

[GaryC 7]

I remember a television show that said the reason for our lack of genetic diversity is because of a genetic "choke point" about 25 thousand years ago. Some dramatic event almost wiped us all out (I forget what it was) and we went down to a few thousand people. Everyone alive today is descended from those survivors.

Weather.

Or, if you prefer, we could say this is proof that we are all descended from Adam and Eve about 6000 years ago.