[Y-Indology] "Europeans"

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Genetics is a closed book to me - but I do recall hearing that genetically

the distance between humans and other primates is fairly small. Arun's

post about the genetic differences between West and East Europeans

reinforces my questioning of the real significance of the results

reported in Bamshed et al.'s paper. Perhaps what we really need is genetic

investigation of the 'monkey-man' currently terrorising Delhi.

 

- Will Sweetman

[Guest guest]

The figure about there being only a 1% difference between humans and

chimpanzees, genetically, is misleading: that 1% is, as you might

expect, very important and packed with information. I suppose the

most famous is the work of Cavalli-Sforza, who pioneered "genetic

geography" of ancient migrations (showing, for example, the existence

of a "genetic slope" possibly showing out-migration of farming groups

from the Middle East across Europe, which probably is a basis for

Renfrew's theory that Indo-European languages spread out from Anatolia

with migrating farmers).

 

So while there are certainly limitations to its use, I wouldn't agree

with you that the evidence from genetics has no significance.

 

Regard,

Rohan.

 

 

 

>Genetics is a closed book to me - but I do recall hearing that genetically

>the distance between humans and other primates is fairly small. Arun's

>post about the genetic differences between West and East Europeans

>reinforces my questioning of the real significance of the results

>reported in Bamshed et al.'s paper. Perhaps what we really need is genetic

>investigation of the 'monkey-man' currently terrorising Delhi.

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