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To: Our man in washington

“Let’s say you have a population of 100,000...”

2 problems with this:
a. All the other women are having children too, and unless the “blonde” woman is a serious racist and her offspring are, too, they are all intermarrying with dark skinned people.

b. Light skin coloration is a recessive (non-dominant) gene. So the chances of the woman’s offspring being light skinned, short of cloning, are pretty low.


57 posted on 04/27/2007 12:01:40 PM PDT by Elpasser
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To: Elpasser

Skin color is not nessicarly dominant or rcessive. Mulattos have skin that is a half way between black and white.


59 posted on 04/27/2007 12:08:23 PM PDT by John Will
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To: Elpasser
All the other women are having children too,

Ancient people lived and traveled in relatively small tribes. Any environmental breeding advantage one tribe obtained (such as immunity to vitamin D deficiency) could easily trigger a widespread expansion and replacement in just a few centuries.

76 posted on 04/28/2007 5:36:34 AM PDT by shuckmaster (An oak tree is an acorns way of making more acorns)
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To: Elpasser
The error is thinking that skin color actually exists. There are only two colors of pigment (with the "red" version having been discovered only recently.

You are speaking only of degrees of pigmentation with some folks having a darker appearance due to a higher pigment content in the upper layers of skin.

Many factors control the amount of pigment in the skin and some may or may not be as "dominant" as you might imagine.

130 posted on 04/30/2007 6:53:22 PM PDT by muawiyah
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