Published February 22nd 2008
The in depth studies can be found at the article’s source, here:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331949,00.html
“White Americans are both genetically weaker and less diverse than their black compatriots, a Cornell University-led study finds.
Analyzing the genetic makeup of 20 Americans of European ancestry and 15 African-Americans, researchers found that the former showed much less variation among 10,000 tested genes than did the latter, which was expected.
They also found that Europeans had many more possibly harmful mutations than did African, which was a surprise.
“Since we tend to think of European populations as quite large, we did not expect to see a significant difference in the distribution of neutral and deleterious variation between the two populations,” said senior co-author Carlos Bustamante, an assistant professor of biological statistics and computational biology at Cornell.
It’s been known for years that all non-Africans are descended from a small group, perhaps only a few dozen individuals, who left the continent between 50,000 and 100,000 years ago.
But the Cornell study, published in the journal Nature Thursday, indicates that Europeans went through a second “population bottleneck,” probably about 30,000 years ago, when the ancestral population was again reduced to relatively few in number.
The doubly diluted genetic diversity has allowed “bad” mutations to build up in the European population, something that the more genetically varied African population has had more success in weeding out.
“What we may be seeing is a ‘population genetic echo’ of the founding of Europe,” said Bustamante.
The Cornell team hopes to study other population groups in search of similar results.
For example, Native Americans show even less genetic diversity than Europeans, having descended from a few thousand people who entered North America about 10,000 years ago.
That fact was reinforced by a larger-scale study, also published in Nature, led by scientists from the Universities of Michigan and Virginia who analyzed genetic samples of 485 individuals scattered around the globe whose DNA is recorded in a French databank.
As would be expected with the “out of Africa” theory, the researchers found Africans had the greatest amount of genetic diversity, followed in turn by Middle Easterners, then Europeans and South Asians at about equal levels, then East Asians.
Native Americans had the least genetic diversity of all, indicating that part of the world was settled last.
“Previously, we’ve been able to look at the genome and say, ‘This part is from Africa, this is from Asia,'” explained Virginia research Andrew Singleton to Wired News. “Now we can look past that and say, ‘It’s from this part of Africa or Eurasia.'”
A third study, published in the journal Science on Friday, may be the most fascinating of all.
Drawing on 935 individual samples from the French databank, a Stanford University team found deep traces of long-ago population movements, all originating from a “ground zero” in Ethiopia, Kenya or Tanzania.
For example, the Pygmies of the Congo forest were found to be quite close to the Bushmen of Namibia — but both were very different from most other sub-Saharan groups.
The fierce and proud Bedouin nomads of the Middle East actually have a lot of European and South Asian blood.
The Asian-looking Hazara of Afghanistan are correct in claiming ancestry in Mongolia, but the Han, the dominant ethnic group in China, may be disappointed to discover they’re actually two peoples, one north, the other south.
Native Americans have at least one closely related group in Asia — the Yakuts of eastern Siberia, who themselves are related to other hunter-gatherer Siberian tribes, some of whom build wooden teepees.
The Basques in northeastern Spain and southwestern France may be right to demand their own nation — they’re not closely related to anyone else. Surprisingly, neither are the residents of Sardinia off the coast of Italy.
As with the other large-scale study, the Stanford team found the greatest diversity outside of Africa among people living in the wide crescent of land stretching from the eastern shore of the Mediterranean to northern India.
Not only was the region among the first colonized by the African migrants, they theorize, but the large number of European and East Asian genes among the population indicates that it’s long been the human highway, with large numbers of migrants from both directions conquering, trading and generally reproducing along its entire length.”
See
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7181/full/nature06611.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331949,00.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/21/AR2008022102739_2.html
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Feb08/BustamanteAA.kr.html
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/02/studies-put-pop.html
http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_8332961?nclick_check=1
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Iman come to educate
Positive laws will dominate
Idren don’t discriminate
Human is the only race
Do not fill your heart with hate
No more need to hesitate
It is time that we make haste
Yes there is alot at stake
Unification set things straight
To Jah Creator Give all Praise
there is no need to fight, HIM say unite
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Black and white, and left and right
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It’s amazing how many people completely missed the point of this article. “Genetic inferiority” means that there is a smaller number of variations within the genes that can lead to possible harmful mutations — this stems from a small initial population. It has NOTHING to do with intelligence or progress. This was meant to be a scientific article about genetics, not some political rhetoric. It’s amazing that this had to be explained.
*Takes a big wiff*
Ahhh, can you smell all the ignorance in the air?
Please keep in mind that there findings were the result of a study, and not an experiment. Tested and tried EXPERIMENTS lead to the development of what we see as scientific facts and laws, NOT studies.
Larger gene variation does NOT equal mental superiority by any means.
That fact that you all grossly misinterpreted this article shows how stupid you are, which is ironic because here you are arguing for superiority. But you still jump on and hold on tight because you finally found so-called “evidence” that in your mind, justifies and reinforces your corrupt thinking.
Many here argue that white people are “destructive” and for that reason it would be best if whites were done away with. Some even referenced the World Wars and how “whites” were to blame. Funny; did you know that Adolf Hitler played a huge role in WWII? Good. Did you also know that his goal was to remove all people of the Jewish race via genocide? Awesome. Now what did you say you want to do, get rid of all white people? Hmm, that sounds a lot like the thinking of a white man named Hitler. Funny how you take after a white man’s thinking even though you claim white people to be the root of evil.
You say white people are terrible because they cause destruction, yet you are the ones who want to cause destruction via the genocide of the white race. You’re too busy attacking white people for being “destructive” to notice that your psychological state of mind is destructive and not to mention disgusting. It’s people like you that are a waste of life. And you wonder why the world is so corrupt…
Stop looking for someone to blame for your problems. Just remember that when you point your finger at someone, there’s always three fingers pointing back at you 🙂
“Whites are genetically inferior and born with an inferiority complex. I mean one look at them and you can tell.”
#1: Physical appearance does not dictate intelligence by any means. You clearly are not trained in the biological sciences, so stop acting like you are.
“They burn in the sun and look 50 by the time they are 25”
Blacks burn in the sun, too. But their skin is so dark that it’s near impossible to notice.
#2: “Thanks to their darker skin pigmentation, African Americans are less likely than members of other racial and ethnic groups in the United States to develop skin cancer. However, this does not mean that African Americans should ignore the possibility of skin cancer completely. Although the rates of occurrence of various types of skin cancer are lower in African Americans, they are not zero. African Americans can develop skin cancer, and when they do, the outcome is often more serious than it is for other Americans.” (skincancerinfoline.com)
Who’s inferior now?
#3: Last time I checked, black people were the ones that always looked old for their age.
“Their hair doesn’t protect them against anything(they actually get lice).”
#4 My hair protects me from the cold and from burns and somewhat cushions my skull. It does its job.
Black people get lice, too. I love how you’re black and yet you didn’t know that but I did…
And I don’t mean to braaaaaag, but… my hair isn’t nappy and it’s long, supersoft, and beautiful. I can also shower on a regular basis (I smell fresh and clean!) without worrying about getting my hair wet and don’t need to put Crisco and other related products in my hair.
They have recessive genes. Blacks have DOMINANT genes.
#5 I study genetics, my specialty 🙂 We already established that you are not trained in biology and here comes more proof: Dominant and recessive genes exist in every single organism, and in every single race of humans. Dominant does NOT mean better or superior. The gene that causes Dwarfism, for example, is a dominant gene. This means that you only need one of these genes for the body to express dwarfism. Now you’re not going to tell me that dwarfism is a desirable and superior trait, are you? No pun intended towards individuals of small stature, but I enjoy being able to easily reach the top of my kitchen cabinets.
Please do not attempt to educate others in an area that you were not trained in. This will only lead to more ignorant individuals like yourself.
“They just aren’t built to last .”
#6: Even if white people were composed solely of recessive genes, please keep in mind that depending on the situation, both dominant and recessive genes can be seen as positive or negative. Again, dominance only indicates that only one of these genes is required for expression, whereas recessive indicates that two genes are required for expression. Dominance does not mean that the individual was built to last. Dwarfism is the result of a dominant gene, but you typically don’t see dwarfs on a daily basis, do you?
“You don’t obsess or feel threatened by someone if you REALLY thought they were inferior.”
#7: Blacks don’t threaten me. However, when a black person is carrying a gun or knife, that’s another story…
“Let us all start out on a FAIR playing field(no lies, deception, other forms of racial tactics, discrimination,weapons that whites like to use) and you will see who the superior one is both mentally and physically”
#9 You already lost before the test even began due to your lack of intelligence. No further testing required.
Whites have set up a system of placing minorities at a disadvantage and then using the problems they created to continue to support white racism. Its sickening and twisted.
#11 Funny, black people are always accusing white people of being racist, yet blacks are the most racist mother effers I ever met. Remember, racism stems from ignorance. Stop being so ignorant and then maybe you can stop being so racist.
Instead of being so effing racist, focus your energy instead on helping the needy in your community, volunteering time at an animal shelter, donating blood, or doing something else that actually benefits Earth and her many organisms. I think we can all agree that is a much more productive way to go about than attacking people with your ignorant, racist remarks. White people aren’t going away, so stop being whiny racists and just accept that that’s the way it is.
I give you blacks props, though. You sure can leap high over a fence, run like the wind when being chased by cops, and pop babies out like there’s no tomorrow… and honestly us whites can’t compete with that LMAO
I think there should be a distinction made between real Africans (people born in South Africa) and Congoloids (descendants of migrants from the Congo and central africa). Too often there is an incorrect racial association with the word African. Anthropologically speaking, the right word is Congoloid.
khalsa
did you ever fall in a pit latrine? looks like you did.
Just asking.
Well you’re a dumbshit to actually think native American genes are the weakest of all. Red genes are very strong. European genes are so weak & recessive that they are the weakest of genes! Darker genes ALWAYS overcome light genes! You have shit for brains too if you’re actually going to call BROWN Hispanic people who are basically natives to the America’s WHITE! I’m MEXICAN! I’m HISPANIC! Natives in North America call us SECOND SONS or SUNS, HOWEVER IT’S SPELT!
So apparently you need little genetic diversity to build any form of civilization. Maybe that’s why sub-Saharan Africans aren’t doing too well in this world; they are everything BUT brother and sisters to each other compared to Europeans and East Asians. In other words they would rather keep smashing each others heads in instead of building a society.