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> we don't share locus of genes that can be used to easily identify us as such I'm one of the biggest critics when it comes to genetic reductionism, evopsych,
by pyentropy 5y ago
> we don't share locus of genes that can be used to easily identify us as such
I'm one of the biggest critics when it comes to genetic reductionism, evopsych, etc and I know it's a touchy subject especially considering the terrible events that happened in WW2, and so on, but this is trivial to disprove.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_genetics_of_Jews https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_genetics_of_Jews
> Due to their historical endogamy over the centuries, today's 10 million Ashkenazi Jews can trace their ancestry to members of a population of only 350 individuals who lived about 600–800 years ago
"Endogamy" meaning marrying (and having offspring) within a small isolationist group.
- hpcjoe 5y agoHuh ... the example I used (Tay-Sachs) is an example of this. So I stand corrected. Thank you! Thank god that the tech to sequence genomes was not available in the 1930s/1940s. Imagine what evil could be done with so much information.