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Scientists Find A DNA Change That Accounts For White Skin
Washington Post ^
| December 16, 2005
| Rick Weiss
Posted on 12/15/2005 10:05:07 PM PST by RWR8189
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To: Coyoteman
"You know how pictures fade with age."
Thanks for explaining.
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posted on
12/16/2005 8:50:16 AM PST
by
Gone GF
To: Mr. Rational
there are more differences than skin color. Physical characteristics, and suceptibility to certain diseases as well.
To: SunkenCiv
Researchers at the John Radcliffe Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford say that the so-called ginger gene which gives people red hair, fair skin and freckles could be up to 100,000 years old. They claim that their discovery points to the gene having originated in Neanderthal man*****************
My husband and I are Neanderthals? Who'd a thunk it? :)
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posted on
12/16/2005 8:57:03 AM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
Aha!! I was wondering how far I'd have to scroll before I saw Jacko LOL! Thanks for not disappointing!
124
posted on
12/16/2005 8:58:08 AM PST
by
lawgirl
(and i opened my eyes and walked out the door... and the clouds came tumbling down...)
To: RWR8189
Interesting article, but it's rather dismaying to see all these scientists spouting, without any scientific basis, leftist dogma about racial differences.
To: El Gato
"Mutation is what allows evolution to proceed. Most mutations are undesirable, but they also allow species adaptation to changed conditions." Adaptation isn't evolution.
126
posted on
12/16/2005 9:06:43 AM PST
by
TheCrusader
("The frenzy of the mohammedans has devastated the Churches of God" Pope Urban II ~ 1097A.D.)
To: TheCrusader
Adaptation isn't evolution. What is it then?
127
posted on
12/16/2005 9:18:12 AM PST
by
Coyoteman
(I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
To: trisham
It's a big boat, climb aboard! ;')
The Neandertal Enigma
by James Shreeve
Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]
128
posted on
12/16/2005 9:21:14 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
("In silence, and at night, the Conscience feels that life should soar to nobler ends than Power.")
To: SunkenCiv
Interesting pictures
here
129
posted on
12/16/2005 9:50:12 AM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: TheCrusader
Adaptation isn't evolution. Fair enough. Humans and apes adapted from a common ancestor, then.
130
posted on
12/16/2005 9:51:46 AM PST
by
Quark2005
(No time to play. One post per day.)
To: Quark2005
"Fair enough. Humans and apes adapted from a common ancestor, then." Yes, Adam.
131
posted on
12/16/2005 10:02:05 AM PST
by
TheCrusader
("The frenzy of the mohammedans has devastated the Churches of God" Pope Urban II ~ 1097A.D.)
To: RWR8189
So, they traced the work of that evil scientist "Yakob" that Calypso Louie is forever babbling about?
132
posted on
12/16/2005 10:06:56 AM PST
by
steve-b
(A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
To: Delta 21
Sounds like evolution to me. Does this mean that white people are more evolved than all the other races, or are we all just mutants? Reminds me of a bit from an old That Was The Week That Was compilation. Among a set of parallel sound bites demonstrating that loonie extremists on opposite sides are more similar to each other than either of them is to normal people:
Ku Klux Klan Speaker: The white man is two hundred thousand years more evolved than the black man!
Black Radical Speaker: The black man was the first man!
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posted on
12/16/2005 10:10:21 AM PST
by
steve-b
(A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
To: RWR8189
What a LOAD!
In my whole life I have met only WHITE
person.
He was albino and lived at night since like vampires, (maybe that's how that legend began), he could not tolerate the sun on his skin.
In my travels I've come to the conclusion that skin coloration is an environmental, not mental, accomodation.
My biology teacher taught us that the proof of biological kinship was not some facafta skin gene but the ability to reproduce! Eskimos can begat Oriental children, Eytalians can begat Sengalese children and Demoncraps can begat Idiots!
Get It? Got It! Good!
To: El Gato
thats why the dominant trait is virtually non existant, its the same as when 2 blue eyed people have kids, all of their kids have blue eyes.
To: GeronL
A major media outlet has just announced that white skin is the problem. I wonder what causes all that strife in Africa?
To: trisham
Thanks, there's also a FR topic on that, somewhere around here...
137
posted on
12/16/2005 10:35:47 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
("In silence, and at night, the Conscience feels that life should soar to nobler ends than Power.")
To: Slings and Arrows
Michael Jackson just signed up as a test subject.I hate you because you said it first.
138
posted on
12/16/2005 10:36:57 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Liberals screwed again: HOLIDAY derives from the words Holy Day. NOW what will they do?)
To: Forte Runningrock
I guess blue eyes, blonde hair, bone structure, brain size are all part of this mutation as well. The change in skin color came first (whether it was white to black or black to white). And, after that, sexual selection isolated the groups. Then the other traits developed to create the races.
To: txflake
"As a blonde, blue-eyed, light-skinned girl, I always wondered what the hell I was selected for for living on this planet."
How about a date?
Seriously, perhaps there is more than the vitamin D and novelty issue.
I think Homo sapiens is a killer by nature and in snow covered northern Europe, a white skin stands out less than a darker skin. Some early cro-magnon with a club would have a harder time finding a white slinned target to brain than a darker skinned target.
And vice-versa in a tropical jungle.
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posted on
12/16/2005 10:48:00 AM PST
by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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