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"Sometimes racial similarities are just skin deep"

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Anonymous loki on the run said...

And skin color involves more genes than lactose tolerance does ...

12/11/06, 11:41 PM

Anonymous JSBolton said...

Actually, lactase persistence in Europeans occurs on a haplotype block of ~1 million DNA units.
One founder multiplied 100's of millions of times over, and his particular alleles present in this essentially unchanged block are what was expanded.
All sorts of other characters would have been carried along with the lactase-related alleles under selection.

What if such populations expanded nepotism towards moderate ranges of genetic distance, beyond cousins,
but this turned out to be a manipulation of a lactobacteria, building on the
1 million DNA unit block,(Lactase Persistence A)
getting it treated as if it represented the totality of the variable genes?
How can nepotism and reduced suspicion and hostility ever widen its circle in such degrees? That is, where genetic causation is to have a great role, and has to start from nothing, and not be free-rided out of its chance to exist.
Would some heritable preference for such a block as long as the above, be enough to generate the expanded nepotism and trust tendencies, strictly regarding genetic distance,
or would there have to be some additional push as from a microbial manipulation, such as the above-suggested?
These further speculations arose from the subject of possible genetic differences on the attitudes mentioned.

12/12/06, 12:49 AM

Anonymous JSBolton said...

Anyone who now says natural selection is insignificant in man during the age past the divergence of the great races, has now some facts to reckon with, which decidedly contradict his feeling of what must be.

12/12/06, 12:54 AM

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