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 Seth  On a pale blue dot 19 Apr 05 1.19pm |
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Interesting thread. From [Link] "Racial differences on the genetic level Another realization coming from the genome project might have a profound effect on social understanding. "From a scientific perspective," Tilghman said, "there is no such thing as race. You cannot scientifically distinguish a race of people genetically from a different race of people. Now you can find a gene that affects skin color, and you can show that this gene has one form in people of African descent and is different form of people, let's say , of Danish descent. But that's just one little change. That doesn't make them a race. If you look at all the other things in their DNA that determine all the ways in which we're the same, in fact the two DNAs are indistinguishable. So it seems that there is only one race: the human race. "There are variants," Tilghman said, "and the variants we pay more attention to are the variants that are visible to us. But in fact the variants that probably matter much more than whether your skin is black or your skin is white are variants that predispose you to breast cancer. And those occur in all populations; variants that predispose you to heart disease; variants that predispose you to Alzheimer's disease. And those do not track by race. So the important ones are not the visible ones." So it would appear there is no such thing as "race" anyway, for what it's worth!
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 A_JsShorts 19 Apr 05 1.37pm |
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Blame it on the french then, after all one of the reasons we view race now as we do and catagorise it is down to the Frenchman Arther De Gabanaeu, who in the 1870's used Darwins theories of evolution and grouped people into races - Aryans being top, blacks in the middle and Jews at the bottom. This is what Hitler based his views on, as stated in Mein Kampf.
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kyle  purley 19 Apr 05 8.27pm |
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154th member GKAS the most useless poster 2005!! |
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o them french, there nice people really! Mikey_cpfc  SM1 19 Apr 05 8.28pm |
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Quote kyle at 19 Apr 2005 8:27pm
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:-w 
................| kyle purley 19 Apr 05 8.30pm |
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racist mikey! how would you like it if the cypriots received the same treatment!!! howdo you actually speel cypriots?
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| Seth On a pale blue dot 19 Apr 05 8.50pm |
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Quote kyle at 19 Apr 2005 8:30pm
racist mikey! how would you like it if the cypriots received the same treatment!!! howdo you actually speel cypriots?
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| RednBlue_Dan Where White Eyes Roar 19 Apr 05 9.00pm |
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Quote Seth at 19 Apr 2005 8:50pm
Quote kyle at 19 Apr 2005 8:30pm
racist mikey! how would you like it if the cypriots received the same treatment!!! howdo you actually speel cypriots?
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favershameagle  Wilds of east kent...(near Finland... 19 Apr 05 9.02pm |
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Isn't it "misspelt"?
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| favershameagle Wilds of east kent...(near Finland... 19 Apr 05 9.03pm |
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No it's not is it!
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| Petealiator 1066 Country! 19 Apr 05 9.41pm |
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Dunno Saxon me ole mucker, but it's turning into an ethnic day for humour!
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| Seth On a pale blue dot 19 Apr 05 10.11pm |
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Quote favershameagle at 19 Apr 2005 9:03pm
No it's not is it!
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| Seth On a pale blue dot 19 Apr 05 10.12pm |
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Quote favershameagle at 19 Apr 2005 9:02pm
Isn't it "misspelt"?
Edited by Seth (19 Apr 2005 10:12pm)
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