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Study turns human genetics on its head (less monkey...more variations)
Globe and Mail (Canada) ^ | 11/23/2006 | CAROLYN ABRAHAM

Posted on 11/23/2006 4:02:06 AM PST by peyton randolph

...Using new technology to study the genomes of 270 volunteers from four corners of the world, researchers have found that while people do indeed inherit one chromosome from each parent, they do not necessarily inherit one gene from mom and another from dad.

One parent can pass down to a child three or more copies of a single gene. In some cases, people can inherit as many as eight or 10 copies....

(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aryan; asian; crevolist; devolution; dna; european; evolution; genetics; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; india; misinterpretation
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu

You are wrong. Different breeds of dog are not subspecies of dog, but clearly a Chihuahua is not a Great Dane. Trouble is when trying to determine race that there are no truly pure breeds- to put it bluntly. Put certain stronger characteristics remain and within them are a range of heights and skin colors and eyeshapes as well as a range of diseases and maladies that are somewhat more common.


41 posted on 11/23/2006 8:20:11 AM PST by ffusco (Maecilius Fuscus,Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
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To: doc30
The prof mentioned that if both parents were brown eyed, their children would be brown eyed.
Except this is not necessarily true. Using the simplistic model, the blue gene is recessive. So both parents could have brown eyes, but both have a recessive blue gene. The child could then get the blue gene from each parent and have blue eyes. So it doesn't prove the kid was adopted.
42 posted on 11/23/2006 8:21:30 AM PST by Scutter
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu
Variations in skin color? Humans are pigmented primarily by melanin.

Birds are distinguished into races within species by differences in standard feather colors. Some mammals are distinguished into races by differences in standard fur color and length. Humans are not different in this regard.

What do you mean by facial type?

The old round vs. long heads is a good starting point.

However, this is not race-based, just as right/left handism, and even blood type is not race-based. Even in cases leaning toward a distinction by people group (race) such as European have around half a chance of being type A bloodtype while the rest of the world is largely type O (along with around half of Europeans).

It could be argued with reason that much of the trend towards more shared characteristics like this comes from prior racial intermixture. It seems likely, for example, that Europeans started off as A- blood type, while non-Europeans started off as O+ blood type. Thousands of years of intermixture have blurred this distinction on the individual level, but not in the aggregate.

The genetic variance of the human race (singular) is not large enough for there to be races of humanity, subspecies or your subgroups (which are one and the same: a subgroup of a species is a subspecies).

I don't see how the outward differences between Africans and Asians, for example, are not enough to classify them as seperate races, while the outward differences between Black Ducks and Mallard Ducks are enough to make them seperate races within one species.

43 posted on 11/23/2006 8:37:24 AM PST by Andrew Byler
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To: beyond the sea
These self-absoebed pencil-necked scientists/researchers will have a completely different theory/story/explanation in a few years. Just hang on and wait a while, they haven't a clue.

Truisms aren't necessarily true.
44 posted on 11/23/2006 8:39:33 AM PST by aruanan
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To: Scutter

I think it must have been reversed. Maybe she had brown eyes and the parents both had blue eyes. I don't know how this article affects that process, but to my knowledge, there is no way for 2 blue eyed parents to have a brown eyed child.


45 posted on 11/23/2006 8:41:12 AM PST by ga medic
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To: ga medic
I think it must have been reversed. Maybe she had brown eyes and the parents both had blue eyes.
Ok, that makes sense. Poor girl.
46 posted on 11/23/2006 8:43:45 AM PST by Scutter
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To: ga medic
My first cousin's parents both had vibrant blue eyes,
she ended up with one blue and one brown.
47 posted on 11/23/2006 9:01:44 AM PST by MamaLucci (God Bless Our Troops)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu; Aetius; Alamo-Girl; AndrewC; Asphalt; Aussie Dasher; Baraonda; BereanBrain; ...

Thanks for the ping.

We have genes that we share with many grossly dissimilar creatures, but those genes do not perform the same for us as they do for the others. The genetic code is just not that rudimentary. Evolutionists know that they are deceiving when they make claims based on shared genetic info.


48 posted on 11/23/2006 7:00:33 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Atheist and Fool are synonyms; Evolution is where fools hide from the sunrise)
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To: editor-surveyor
Thanks, this is different mention of the topic covered by this thread.

Genetic Breakthrough that Reveals the Differences Between Humans

This thread was, however, posted quite a bit earlier.

49 posted on 11/23/2006 8:53:22 PM PST by AndrewC (Duckpond, LLD, JSD (all honorary))
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To: MamaLucci
My first cousin's parents both had vibrant blue eyes, she ended up with one blue and one brown.

How cool! Sounds like a chimera.

50 posted on 11/23/2006 9:46:34 PM PST by Marie (Smart, educated women make smart, educated children!)
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To: ccmay; Scutter

You are right. It was my mistake for posting without enough coffee. I had blue and brown reversed.


51 posted on 11/24/2006 6:16:51 AM PST by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what an Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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To: doc30
you must have the colors reversed.

The adopted girl must have had brown eyes, and her adoptive parents brown. Two blue-eyed parents can NOT have a brown eyed daughter. Impossible.

Why? The reason is that blue is a recessive gene and the combination of one blue gene with a brown gene yields the dominant color of brown.
53 posted on 11/24/2006 10:46:10 AM PST by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid)
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To: AmericaUnited

I need to read that one. Got a link?


54 posted on 11/24/2006 10:47:46 AM PST by SuzyQue (Remember to think.)
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To: doc30

The adopted girl must have had brown eyes, and her adoptive parents brown.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

that should read: The adopted girl had brown, and the two parents had BLUE. Two blue eyed parent can NOT have a brown eyed daughter.


55 posted on 11/24/2006 10:48:04 AM PST by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu

I'm sure you have a nice home page, but it doesn't appear correctly on my monitor: text over lapping and images scaled down from big ones that don't fully appear.


56 posted on 11/24/2006 11:55:38 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: Scutter
How does this simplistic model explain that?

The mailman?? ;^)

57 posted on 11/24/2006 11:56:26 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: Caipirabob

I once mouthed off and got black eyes!


58 posted on 11/24/2006 11:57:19 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: peyton randolph

Great minds... ;^)


59 posted on 11/24/2006 11:57:49 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: beyond the sea
I just want to know about the gene pool from which Janet Reno came.

This one...

60 posted on 11/24/2006 11:59:54 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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