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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: jbe who wrote (85021)8/7/2000 10:32:23 PM
From: cosmicforce   of 108807
 
And aren't American Indians supposed to be Mongolian by origin, anyway?

Last I heard there were at least three major genetic influxes into North American. The number is probably higher now with modern genetics. There is also some reason to believe that Russians, Chinese and Japanese also made landfall in pre-Columbian times. All the evidence indicates H. sapiens was so mobile that it is probably silly to group people by races. But tell that to America. We love our racial distinctions.

I'm a bit of an amateur naturalist. I see more variation is size, shape, morphology, etc in a single local species of oak tree than I do in people. Humans are less genetically variable that almost any comparable species, except maybe some rare isolated ones. Another case where science gives way to politics. Perceptions are more important than reality when it comes to political power brokering.
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