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genetically i'd say indians are more caucasian than asian

brokencode 6y ago
This makes no sense, because Indians are literally and indisputably from Asia. What is Asian genetics but the genetics of people who live in Asia? Asian is not a specific nationality or people, and applies to the people of any Asian country.
- hungryhobo 6y ago
  sure, i'm not saying indians aren't asian. but in the context of this article, when the attacks are based on people looking a certain way, indians don't fit that mold.
myWindoonn 6y ago
FYI this isn't how gene pools work, mathematically; there's no specific profiles of genes which are "Caucasian" or "Asian". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedigree_collapse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedigree_collapse will get you started on a better understanding.
- hungryhobo 6y ago
  The link doesn't support that you are saying, it illustrates there must overlap between ancestry else the growth is exponential. But doesn't prove that there aren't groups or clusters of gene pools
  - myWindoonn 6y ago
    Genes have physical loci, sure, but there's no partition of humans into haves and have-nots which prohibits gene transfer; humans aren't Sneeches [0] and our offspring often inherit a spectrum of possible features. Pedigree collapse is one of the two main reasons why we are not even as genetically diverse as chimpanzees [1], with the other main reason being that our parliament of genes [2] is very homogenous and rejects many sorts of non-hereditary gene transfer. Ironically, humans form only one race because our genes are in strong agreement with one another and work to reject any radical gene changes, which is likely because human population had a bottleneck in recent history [3]. We haven't had enough time to speciate; we haven't even had enough time to genetically specialize to a degree which would allow speciation to be a possibility. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sneetches_and_Other_Stories#The_Sneetches https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sneetches_and_Other_Storie... [1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2013/10/why-are-apes-more-genetically-diverse-than-we-are/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2013/10/why-are-apes-more-ge... [2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13169-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13169-3 [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory#Genetic_bottleneck_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory#Geneti...

This makes no sense, because Indians are literally and indisputably from Asia. What is Asian genetics but the genetics of people who live in Asia? Asian is not a specific nationality or people, and applies to the people of any Asian country.

hungryhobo 6y ago
sure, i'm not saying indians aren't asian. but in the context of this article, when the attacks are based on people looking a certain way, indians don't fit that mold.

myWindoonn 6y ago

FYI this isn't how gene pools work, mathematically; there's no specific profiles of genes which are "Caucasian" or "Asian". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedigree_collapse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedigree_collapse will get you started on a better understanding.

hungryhobo 6y ago
The link doesn't support that you are saying, it illustrates there must overlap between ancestry else the growth is exponential. But doesn't prove that there aren't groups or clusters of gene pools
- myWindoonn 6y ago
  Genes have physical loci, sure, but there's no partition of humans into haves and have-nots which prohibits gene transfer; humans aren't Sneeches [0] and our offspring often inherit a spectrum of possible features. Pedigree collapse is one of the two main reasons why we are not even as genetically diverse as chimpanzees [1], with the other main reason being that our parliament of genes [2] is very homogenous and rejects many sorts of non-hereditary gene transfer. Ironically, humans form only one race because our genes are in strong agreement with one another and work to reject any radical gene changes, which is likely because human population had a bottleneck in recent history [3]. We haven't had enough time to speciate; we haven't even had enough time to genetically specialize to a degree which would allow speciation to be a possibility. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sneetches_and_Other_Stories#The_Sneetches https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sneetches_and_Other_Storie... [1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2013/10/why-are-apes-more-genetically-diverse-than-we-are/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2013/10/why-are-apes-more-ge... [2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13169-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13169-3 [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory#Genetic_bottleneck_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory#Geneti...