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I don't think it's a rebuke at all. The other side of the coin is to make sure you're the steppe tribes, not the hunter-gatherers. People who care about such th
by ng12 8y ago
I don't think it's a rebuke at all. The other side of the coin is to make sure you're the steppe tribes, not the hunter-gatherers. People who care about such things don't really care about purity, they care about winners and losers.
- danans 8y ago> The other side of the coin is to make sure you're the steppe tribes, not the hunter-gatherers. This doesn't follow from the researcher's statement at all. Just because the mechanism by which diversity happened thousands of years ago was often terrible doesn't mean we need to project that upon today, when we have much better mechanisms for genetic diversity, like immigration. We, as a human society, have improved just a bit.
- ng12 8y ago> We, as a human society, have improved just a bit. I think it's debatable. The tribes are much bigger but really little has changed.