Scientists Find DNA Region That Affects Europeans' Fertility

New York Times ^ | 17 January 2005 | NICHOLAS WADE

[PatrickHenry]

Everyone be nice.

[PatrickHenry]

EvolutionPing

For the evolution side of the debate. See list's description in my freeper homepage. Then FReepmail to be added/dropped.

[EagleUSA]

Whatever the nasty ingredient, give it all to France , so the anti-American frogs do not propagate any more than they have...maybe there is a anti-Chirac gene in there somewhere.

[BenLurkin]

So . . . is this another "Boys from Brazil" thing ?

[Dog Gone]

Okay, I'm confused. Europeans have a negative fertility rate at present, while Asians and Africans are making babies like rabbits.

I'll buy the DNA difference, but the effects seem to be completely opposite of what is stated.

[PatrickHenry]

The Europeans also have a socialism gene.

[CzarNicky]

perhaps it is because Europeans abort and birth control themselves as a way of overriding the gene's natural tendencies. If the Europeans behaved like the Africans and Asians they would be bursting at the seams as well.

[JFK_Lib]

I cant help but wonder if that ancient parallel humanoid was Neanderthal.....

[bencarter]

Europe's current negative fertility rate at present is due to standard-of-living issues, not genetics

[bencarter]

It's really more about industrialization

[M-cubed]

Makes sense to me!..but I have more questions then answers as to the bigger picture...................

[Thumper1960]

The European lack-o-chillun phenomena is directly related to the coward gene and the metro-sexual gene....with a bit of the Marxist gene thrown in, for good measure.

[xJones]

There's some earlier comments here: Genes Promoting Fertility Are Found in Europeans.

Actually, that version was more intriguing, with rape and subhuman interbreeding.

Decode's alternative proposal is that the flipped version was carried for many years in a different human lineage, one of the archaic populations that preceded the emergence of anatomically modern humans in Africa 150,000 years ago. Then, in some episode of rape or interbreeding, a single copy of the flipped version entered the modern human lineage some time before humans left Africa 60,000 years ago.

[M-cubed]

isnt that a genetic thing?...survival of the fittest or something

[Dog Gone]

I'd have to guess that they've always overridden the gene's natural tendencies, then. We lack historical data, of course, but when did the europeans breed like rats compared to the other populations, and what evidence is there for that?

Is there any historical evidence to back up these assertions?

[cyborg]

A poor man's riches are his children. This goes for white people as well.

[CzarNicky]

by that reasoning once the rest of the world catches up with Europe, Europe will have the reproductive advantage again. I guess that would make sense if one hold Japan up as the example of a non European nation that has achieved European rates of industrialization.

[I got the rope]

LOL. They sure don't make white guys like they used too.

[Dog Gone]

Take away my riches, then. He's costing me about 20 grand a year at college.

[cyborg]

LOL!!!!