[peyton randolph]

Wonder what the implications are for the differences between men and women (besides the obvious).

[peyton randolph]

Related story that can't be posted here. Link only.

 

[AmericaUnited]

Wow, and just the other day a story came out how genome research was destroying evolution's common ancestor theory.

[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.

;-)

Pass me the cheese omelet, bacon and buttered toast.

[mewzilla]

The ninth paragraph in mentions the serious implications this has for "pre-natal scans". Is that Brit speak for ultrasounds, or does that include DNA testing as well?

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

This is new stuff. Will it be the same a year from now?

At least three of the four ethnic groups a far from homogenous (genetically). Han Chinese is made out many people who adopted the basic Chinese culture starting in northeast China. The Japanese people's origins are still debated (traditionally, Shinto Japanese consider themselves all descended from the first emperor, and that they comprise the single, Yamada race. Most other scientists think that the Japanese have varied origins, with ancestors from the north, from Korea in the west, and even peoples from the south and Polynesia). And every American should know the heterogenity of Americans of European descent.

All humans are part of one race (and there are no subspecies) with very little genetic variation (the result of separation by at most some 5,000 years).

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

ping.

[randita]

Wonder what the implications are for the differences between men and women (besides the obvious).

In the end, studies like these are meaningless when a city (NYC) can propose a law allowing people to decide for themselves what gender they are. And if you can decide what gender you are, which is determined at birth, then I guess you can decide what race you are and what color your eyes and hair are as well. It's all up to you and has nothing to do with reality.

That can make getting a driver's license and other daily activities (like choosing what restroom you should use) a bit tricky, I'd think, but so what? We're in the Age of Liberal Enlightenment.

[Scutter]

I don't know much about genetics, but this sort of makes sense to me. I never did understand how the simple model could explain eye color. For example, I was taught that brown genes were dominant, and blue were recessive. I have one brown gene, and one blue-eyed gene. So does my wife. We both have brown eyes. So my children have a one in 4 chance of having blue eyes:

Mom's Gene	Dad's Gene	Child's Eye Color
Brown	Brown	Brown
Brown	Blue	Brown
Blue	Brown	Brown
Blue	Blue	Blue

4 combinations, 1 of which leads to a blue-eyed child, hence the 1 in 4 chance.

So my son has grey eyes. How does this simplistic model explain that?

[SunkenCiv]

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