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Soooo... Africans are the only pure blood homo sapiens? Interesting. I have a feeling a lot of supremacists groups are going to start making a point of how sup
by Aloisius 15y ago
Soooo... Africans are the only pure blood homo sapiens? Interesting.
I have a feeling a lot of supremacists groups are going to start making a point of how superior Neanderthals were soon enough.
- prawn 15y agoI was waiting to see how the CNN-commenting crowd would reconcile their opinions with the common concept of 'cavemen' and its negative connotations.
- bpd1069 15y agoYes, and I imagine a large number of individuals, white supremacists or not, are going to do some mental gymnastics to reconcile this finding.
- kstenerud 15y agoWhat mental gymnastics? We don't know what this DNA does, nor why it was useful in an evolutionary sense to keep it.
- jff 15y agoWell, that very article laid the groundwork in the last sentence: "Variability is very important for long-term survival of a species," Labuda concluded. "Every addition to the genome can be enriching." Basically, he's saying "hybrid vigor". Boom, there you go, supremacists, have fun!