To: sportutegrl
Rather odd that this phenomenon had a greater impact on a subset of Jews than other parts of humankind.
31 posted on
12/11/2007 9:23:37 AM PST by
Deut28
(Cursed be he who perverts the justice)
To: Deut28
Rather odd that this phenomenon had a greater impact on a subset of Jews than other parts of humankind. Not necessarily. IIRC, genetic change becomes more marked in a smaller interbreeeding population than in a larger one.
35 posted on
12/11/2007 9:26:17 AM PST by
Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
(Conservatives - Freedom WITH responsibility; Libertarians - Freedom FROM responsibility)
To: Deut28
“Rather odd that this phenomenon had a greater impact on a subset of Jews than other parts of humankind.”
I was thinking along the same lines — so that perhaps a corollary of this thesis would be to ask why the Arabs ceased to evolve about 800 years ago...
43 posted on
12/11/2007 9:41:31 AM PST by
Clioman
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