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To: allmendream
The genetic difference between any two members of our species is very very small.

As is the genetic difference between a St Bernard, a border collie, a pit bull, and a chihuahua. Yet those small differences do create some significant differences in appearance and behavior between the various breeds of dog.

55 posted on 07/18/2011 9:46:36 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (When you've only heard lies your entire life, the truth sounds insane.)
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To: PapaBear3625
Indeed, in genetics a very small difference can lead to a very large change in outward appearance behavior etc.

With dogs those traits were selected for by humans, the differences held as each strain was held to a standard and the bloodlines kept separate.

Humans had different environments selecting those traits, and different sexual selection criteria.

The number one difference between human populations is cultural, not genetic.

There is vanishingly small genetic differences and most of those have to do with local climate adaptation.

Being better at dumping heat may make for (all other things being equal) a better athlete - but there is in biology - as with economics - no such thing as a free lunch. Every trait has a optimal range, a cost benefit trade-off, etc, etc.

Differences do not mean that one is better and one is worse - they mean that one is better is some situations and others are better in other situations.

59 posted on 07/18/2011 10:02:49 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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