From: alexboko@umich.edu
Date: Wed Sep 25 2002 - 13:55:21 MDT
From: "Alex Future Bokov" <alexboko@umich.edu>
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Actually, a meaningful measure of human lineage proximity would be
mitochondrial mutations and to a lesser extent Y-chromosome ones. These
do confirm unsurprising things like the fact that most Europeans are more
closely related to each other than to Asians or Africans, etc. However,
there are a few surprises-- isolated ethnic groups unrelated to any of their
neighbors, and at least a dozen different groups in Africa that are more
distinct than Europeans and Asians are from each other. For more info, see--
http://shelob.bioanth.cam.ac.uk/mtDNA/toc.html
On the other hand, it's not unreasonable to suppose that there are some
similar biological and cultural adaptations that a shared environment produces
in people, regardless of their lineage.
---- This message was posted by Alex Future Bokov to the Extropians 2002 board on ExI BBS. <http://www.extropy.org/bbs/index.php?board=61;action=display;threadid=53321>
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