Genome Brings Ancient Denisovan Girl to Life

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anunnaki
Maybe, but we might as well be considered one, at least if you take into consideration the fact that we can mix over almost any ethnic/racial border and produce healthy, fertile offspring.
Angocachi
The argument over what is a 'species' continues among biologists. Dogs and wolves can be crossed easily, coyotes also, but they're very different and are classified as separate species. Learning that Asians, for example, have the most Neanderthal DNA and that Black Africans have none MUST have some import... because Neanderthals were decidedly not Homo Sapiens.
anunnaki
Question is whether or not that importance means anything in real life, in the everyday interaction between people. If we found out that Northern Europeans and Middle Easterners can be considered two different species, it still won't affect my marriage to my Swedish man, nor our children who are intelligent, handsome, healthy and (hopefully) fertile. Bottom line is, calling it species instead of races aren't going to change much in our everyday lives, it is just going to be a change of names.

If Homo Sapiens had no problem breeding with Neanderthals, then objection to interbreeding between different groups of Homo Sapiens almost falls on deaf ears (is that the correct idiom?). But I've always suspected humans, in general, have no problem with mixing with others who look at least a little bit like them if the opportunity is given (Japanese robots for example). If we ever were to encounter humanoid aliens, we'd probably try to hump them too. But I digress.
Team Zissou
There appears to be a continuum of preferences. OKCupid apparently does a lot of tracking that's been cited by Sailer before. Black women and Asian men are the bookends in the human bio-diversity dating game. Black men would do better, but they tend not to hang around.
Niccolo and Donkey
President Camacho CriticalLooksTheory Roland

SteamshipTime and the Theory of NOWAG.
Angocachi
Black women are NOWBW in America because,
- 51% of Black women obese and 29% overweight, 80% of Black Women in America over the age of 20 are fat.
In Black countries, NOWBW doesn't exist. It doesn't exist for a Black American woman with a healthy BMI either.

Asian men are NOWAG in America because,
- they're shorter on average
But in Asian countries there is no NOWAG aside from a shortage of girls (thanks to gender selective abortion and infanticide), and tall Asian guys in America have no problem with women.

A change in diet for each of these populations would see in an increase in slim Black women and tall Asian men. The first remains unlikely as long as they live in the KFC's and Burger Kings. But Asian guys, 2nd and 3rd generation, are already taller than their diminutive immigrant predecessors.

Black men as a group are at a severe disadvantage, because they make less money, 5% of them are incarcerated at any given time (1/3 are incarcerated once in their lifetime), and 70% of them over 20 years old are overweight or obese. It's only the 30% who aren't fat, (<4% of the men in the US) who clean up on the scene, and only with women who don't mind dating convicts or the underemployed. Black men generally don't have much on their side, other than being ridiculously forward. Staying fit and being shameless in my approach to women is the only way I've gotten laid at all.

Asian men should have an advantage, because they make the most money, have the best health, and so on.. but being too short often negates this in many women's eyes. The tall, fit, Asian man with a good income doesn't lose unless he's just too shy.

White and Asian women have the least difficulty getting the men they want. Although White women are generally heavier than Asian women, they are the 2nd slimmest of the races and aside from Black women have the fullest T&A and best waist-to-hip ratio. Asian women, though lacking what Black and White women have in curves, bust, and behind, are the slimmest and have the least masculine faces; high cheekbones, far spaced eyes, shallow eye sockets, suppressed brow-ridge, nose, and chin.
Team Zissou

Okay youngsters. What's NOWAG and NOWBW?

Team Zissou
Angocachi

OKCupid tracked this as well. Black men are unquestionably the most aggressive.

With your Caucasian and Arabian admixture, you should do extremely well, though I'd prefer you strengthen the Horn of Africa gene pool.
Team Zissou

My new mission in life: find Angocachi a suitable Northeast African mate.

anunnaki

SteamedShrimp, if you can cross racial borders then why can't he.

And no offense to Ango, but Caucasian/Arabian admixture isn't exactly helping Horner Africans in the looks department. Some women look good, but the men usually don't and don't even have the muscle mass and good bodies of the western African to compensate with.