Posted on 01/30/2011 5:47:11 PM PST by Williams
Scientists said yesterday that they have discovered a tiny genetic mutation that largely explains the first appearance of white skin in humans tens of thousands of years ago, a finding that helps solve one of biology's most enduring mysteries and illuminates one of humanity's greatest sources of strife.
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LOL!!
The genetic existence of genes that cause dilution of melanin are quite well known and exist in other animals, such as cats, dogs, and horses besides human beings. Breeders use the “fact” of dilution in their breeding programs all the time.
I don’t have to make-up stuff: telling the truth looks good enough.
Im just saying....based on their logic.
Since they think that we are evolving and not devolving through mutations doesn't that, in there scheme of thinking, put white people further up the evolutionary tree and make whites superior?
You said recessive gene not mutant gene. Demonstrating a recessive gene does not mean that you are born the dominant gene. Recessive genes are actually as strong as dominant genes. I have never heard this "fact" about all babies being born genetically black and tried to google any information concerning this "fact" and could find nothing even remotely akin to anything like it. Please give reference for your "fact". Also there are many characteristics that are generally different between whites and blacks other than just melanin.
Has it been proved or just theorized that depigmentation, having less melanin, is a mutation or is it caused by a recessive gene that is merely recessive not mutant?
“But NONE of us...”
Race is a non issue, not even a sub subspecies, a blonde, fair skinned person of Norwegian background could have the same mDNA as someone from the Sudan who has african hair and skin or a person from the mid east with arab features. I’m 100% celtic but share genes with 40% of Japan.
Ooo-ooo-ooo. [scratches himself]
The recessive gene is a result of mutation. So are blue eyes.
I read some place that the white race has a “recessive gene” to depigment. I think the source was from the 1950’s. What I read was probably just theory because it would have been only a few years after Watson and Crick worked out the molecular structure of DNA by x-ray diffraction. (There’s a great BBC miniseries about this).
With the recent Human Genome project, vastly more is now known.
Oooh! He'p me, he'p me! Somebody he'p me! He'p me! He'p me! He'p me!
So, I guess all of the EEO, Affirmative Action, minority preferences and diversity bullcrap can be tossed.
We’re all black now, just that some are blacker than others.
Actually, it refers to neither. Dr. Thomas Sowell and Dr. John McWhorter have both done yeoman's research into various linguistic peculiarities associated with race, and both have some interesting things to say about such terms.
It turns out that "cracker" comes from the root that is also the root of the term "wise-crack". It is an Irish saying (loosely "to crack wise") that was transferred to African American communities post emancipation (since many poor immigrant whites and freed slaves shared the same occupations, especially in the Mid-Atlantic and South). The term actually denotes a loud-mouthed or obnoxious individual, and was used in Ireland long before it was used here. Blacks picked up this term and began to use it to denigrate their Irish (i.e., white) counterparts, from whence it became generalized to whites as a whole.
An interesting side note: what most people consider "ebonics" actually derives partly from a linguistic pattern also borrowed from Irish immigrants, in this case ones who had settled in a suburb of London before continuing (for various unpleasant reasons... or as it would have sounded in their mouths "rais'ns") on to the United States. Language is a funny thing...
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