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Thread ID: 8829 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2003-08-07
2003-08-07 03:43 | User Profile
The BBC News-World Edition for 9 June 2003 has a story about how the human race almost became extinct sometime in the last 100,000 years:"The small genetic diversity of modern humans indicates that at some stage during the last 100,000 years the human population dwindled to a very low level." Research by scientists suggests man's African population fell to just 2,000 individuals, from whom we are all descended. What interests me is that our relatives among the great apes do not also show a genetic bottleneck, which means that the loss of life was not the result of a natural cataclysm but was the result of deliberate targeting of humans by a virus designed to kill people: Germ Warfare. Seems like proof of a conflict by an advanced civilization so long ago that there may not be any remaining trace. In addition, todays racial differences are therefore rooted in very small differences indeed when you consider that humans and even chimpanzees have practically the same genes. That invalidates the idea that we are all the same race, unless you believe that chimpanzees are just another race of mankind because we can have offspring with them. <_<
2003-08-07 16:07 | User Profile
And then, there was Noah.
2003-08-08 02:09 | User Profile
Yeah, Noah had children with his daughters. We're all so closely related genetically that it's a kind of miracle we all don't look more alike. But then we share practically all the same genes with chimpanzees and look at the difference.