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Pastimes : R. Harmon's Earth 101 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Yogizuna who wrote (95)	4/4/2000 8:41:00 PM
From: Lilian Debray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 183

Is there such a thing as absolute proof in science? IMO that article referred to Professor Henry Harpending's theory, among others, based on factorial formulas. "Human populations easily double in, say, fifty years. Yanomamo are doubling in about 25 years. Taking fifty years to be a conservative rate of doubling in a new environment we need 10 doublings to multiply the population by 1000, i.e. a thousandfold expansion which is about what the genetics estimates. This would occur in 500 years, the blink of an eye." kimura.anthro.utah.edu apnet.com According to the Human Genome research, the tiny differences between any two people rest in only 2 to 10 million - out of the 3 billion total in the 100,000 or so human genes - nucleotide bases(base-sugar-phosphate links), an amount that computes to about 1 percent or less of their total DNA. Chemically, we are a lot more the same than we are different.