[4woodenboats]

I wonder how many pints it took to dream this one up.

[nmh]

LOL!

So how come Africans are shall we say so unsophisticated in Africa? Always killing each other?

No, try Mesopotamia. That is the cradle of civilization; not Africa.

[Young Werther]

The mitochondrial DNA analysis proved this point. The mitochondrial DNA is found in the female sapiens. Since this gene is passed from mother to daughter it is consistent record. Umbilical cords were collected from all ehtnic groups. Europeans, Siberians, Chinese, Eskimos, Native American in North and South American.

Mutations over time were used to do a backward in time analysis.

this was reported in Scientific American in the late 90s and the author of the article said that we call had a common Grandmother, he named Eve, who lived in the horn of Africa.

When I received the 2000 census long form one of the questions was what race are you? The answers included Caucsian, Black, Yellow, Hispanic, and Other. I checked other and filled in the blank....HUMAN.

RACE might be appropriate when discussing NASCAR but it is meaningless when trying to define people!