[Pharmboy]

Seems too fast and recent...but must await more data.

[Pharmboy]

Genes/DNA/behavior PING...

[martin_fierro]

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Mysteries of the Genome.

[From many - one.]

More reasonable than many think. Essentially we are domesticated critters with very high, and until recently localized, selection pressures.

[Graymatter]

So, the NYT discovers little brown brothers in a bowl of rice.
And it turns out rice converted Uncle Ben. Made him less independent, more cooperative.
Quittin' tiiiiiiime!!

[Mercat]

Because of the NYT agenda, I have to assume that this is their latest attempt at justifying socialism. i.e., the Chinese are communists because they are genetically programmed to be communists.... and the stuff about the Jews is too creepy.

[True Capitalist]

post-coffee consumption mark

[Question_Assumptions]

The way this started out, I had to double-check that this was really the NY Times and not from a white supremacist web site. But as someone who believes that behavior is nature and nurture, this is going to be a hard sell to the millions of American kids who are taught in college with absolute certainty that humans are born as a clean slate and that there is no such thing as "human nature" -- well except sexual orientation and gender, of course. They are taught that's inborn. But everything else is a blank slate.

[Savage Beast]

Remember: This is from the New York Times; so ?????????

[muawiyah]

The normal population exhibits an inherited allergy to seafood or fish in about 48% of its members. The Norwegian population exhibits the same allergy in about 2% of its members.

This allergy can be fatal ~ particularly to humans living North of 30 degrees where cows can't. Fish then become almost the only source of vitamin D.

So, one might ask, just how rapidly did the fish allergy gene variant get worked out of the human system in this environment? Was it 7,000 years ~ the date of the oldest Sa'ami petroglyphs, or was it 10,000 years ~ the date of the last big glacial meltdown? Could it have been earlier even?

These numbers are pretty much consistent with the numbers cited in the article.

[SunkenCiv]

Duplicate, and crap. :')

[SunkenCiv]

alas:

Still Evolving, Human Genes Tell New Story
New York Times | 3/7/06 | Nicholas Wade
Posted on 03/06/2006 10:29:42 PM EST by CobaltBlue
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1591389/posts

[aruanan]

Many of the reshaped genes are involved in taste, smell or digestion, suggesting that East Asians experienced some wrenching change in diet. Since the genetic changes occurred around the time that rice farming took hold, they may mark people's adaptation to a historical event,

This is quite a bit like a proposal I made for a thesis project when I was looking for a new thesis advisor. I tried pitching it to a big name in anthropology here at the U of Chicago who had been receptive via email. Turns out she wanted to talk about the symbolism of food. The only other guy on our committee from anthro who was doing work with the Indians near Lake Titicaca never responded. There is similar work already going on among the Hutterites. They're looking at founder effects and the resulting genetic profile of a relatively isolated community .