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Even Neanderthal's have African roots,so i do not see why anyone is struggling to make distinctions

by ekm 15y ago

carbocation 15y ago
> Even Neanderthal's have African roots,so i do not see why anyone is struggling to make distinctions All life originated with a single common ancestor, but I still find distinctions to be useful. Neanderthals and humans were considered to be different species, so this is a fairly weighty finding. Anyway, making distinctions is perhaps the essence of being human.
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  - carbocation 15y ago
    > Yeah,just like being racist is human too Oh, right, I forgot that genetic research was per se racist. Or am I misinterpreting you?
    - ekm 15y ago
      I was just trying to suggest that if subject C is related to subject B,and subject B is related to subject A,then it follows that C is also related to A,both A,B and C are related and there is no need for fine distinctions.
      - w1ntermute 15y ago
        In that case, humans and bananas are the same, right? No need for fine distinctions. After all, 50% of our DNA is the same. The fact that sub-Saharan Africans are not of partial Neanderthal descent while every other race is does create the possibility that there are fundamental genetic differences between them and all other races. However, proving any such differences would be near impossible. What's racist is to claim that such differences exist when not a shred of scientific evidence for such a claim exists.
        ekm 15y ago
        The similarities between these three DNAs is in the high 90s,which is pretty different from the 50% that you are talking about
        burgerbrain 15y ago
        The "high 90s" that humans and neanderthals had in common is dwarfed by what all humans have in common with each other. These distinctions are not the product of anyones imagination.
- killerswan 15y ago
  I suspect that Neanderthals were smart enough and talented enough that we'd call them human and give them civil rights, today, if any were around. They mind be kinda odd, and incredible football players, but who knows.

Even Neanderthal's have African roots,so i do not see why anyone is struggling to make distinctions

by ekm 15y ago

Even Neanderthal's have African roots,so i do not see why anyone is struggling to make distinctions

> Even Neanderthal's have African roots,so i do not see why anyone is struggling to make distinctions All life originated with a single common ancestor, but I still find distinctions to be useful. Neanderthals and humans were considered to be different species, so this is a fairly weighty finding. Anyway, making distinctions is perhaps the essence of being human.

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- carbocation 15y ago
  > Yeah,just like being racist is human too Oh, right, I forgot that genetic research was per se racist. Or am I misinterpreting you?
  - ekm 15y ago
    I was just trying to suggest that if subject C is related to subject B,and subject B is related to subject A,then it follows that C is also related to A,both A,B and C are related and there is no need for fine distinctions.
    - w1ntermute 15y ago
      In that case, humans and bananas are the same, right? No need for fine distinctions. After all, 50% of our DNA is the same. The fact that sub-Saharan Africans are not of partial Neanderthal descent while every other race is does create the possibility that there are fundamental genetic differences between them and all other races. However, proving any such differences would be near impossible. What's racist is to claim that such differences exist when not a shred of scientific evidence for such a claim exists.
      - ekm 15y ago
        The similarities between these three DNAs is in the high 90s,which is pretty different from the 50% that you are talking about
        burgerbrain 15y ago
        The "high 90s" that humans and neanderthals had in common is dwarfed by what all humans have in common with each other. These distinctions are not the product of anyones imagination.
killerswan 15y ago
I suspect that Neanderthals were smart enough and talented enough that we'd call them human and give them civil rights, today, if any were around. They mind be kinda odd, and incredible football players, but who knows.