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Scientists Find A DNA Change That Accounts For White Skin
Washington Post ^
| December 16, 2005
| Rick Weiss
Posted on 12/15/2005 10:05:07 PM PST by RWR8189
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:05:11 PM PST
by
RWR8189
To: RWR8189
Michael Jackson just signed up as a test subject.
To: RWR8189
It's just shocking that the same gene that controls skin color also controls jumping ability.
(Sorry - I couldn't help myself).
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:12:55 PM PST
by
Mr. Rational
(God gave me a brain and expects me to use it)
To: RWR8189
"Scientists said yesterday that they have discovered a tiny genetic mutation that largely explains the first appearance of white skin in humans tens of thousands of years ago, a finding that helps solve one of biology's most enduring mysteries and illuminates one of humanity's greatest sources of strife."
White skin is one of "humanity's greatest sources of strife," huh?
What racist garbage.
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:14:04 PM PST
by
Reactionary
(The Stalinist Media is the Enemy)
To: RWR8189
BTTT.
As a blonde, blue-eyed, light-skinned girl, I always wondered what the hell I was selected for for living on this planet.
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:17:26 PM PST
by
txhurl
(hook'em)
To: Mr. Rational
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:19:32 PM PST
by
A6M3
To: RWR8189
From what I've heard, as humans started migrating north from Africa they came up upon impinging ice sheets in an ice age. The probability of breaking bones greatly increased in the rougher terrain so there was an advantage to anything that could make the bones stronger, such as lightening so that more vitamin D could be made. Additionally less radiant heat would be emitted at night due to the lower emissivity of white skin (which gave an advantage in the coldest of nights).
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:19:49 PM PST
by
burzum
(Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.-Adm H Rickover)
To: PatrickHenry
You might find this interesting.
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:21:04 PM PST
by
Sofa King
(A wise man uses compromise as an alternative to defeat. A fool uses it as an alternative to victory.)
To: RWR8189
"Leaders of the study, at Penn State University"
Great, now Graham Spanier (Penn State President) can correct the malfunctioning mutant "white" gene and make us all minorities, making him and his wacko leftist buddies on campus sleep better at night knowing they, without leaving the confines of their books and red brick towers to do any real work, have made mankind safe and equal as it should be (in their eyes)!
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:22:22 PM PST
by
Herakles
To: RWR8189; doug from upland; JohnHuang2; Travis McGee; writer33; Richard Poe; Congressman Billybob
According to the Washington Post white skin is
one of humanity's greatest sources of strife.How about them apples??
A major media outlet has just announced that white skin is the problem.
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:25:39 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Leftism is the INSANE Cult of the Artificial)
To: Reactionary
That was my reaction too. The WASHPOST is letting their bias show again. Somebody get this to Rush and the other talk show hosts out there.
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:26:29 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Leftism is the INSANE Cult of the Artificial)
To: burzum
Biochmical synthesis of melanin has been studied to death. That they found some gene and put it in an evolutionary context is only slightly interesting... not much of a rock concert, really.
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:26:55 PM PST
by
SteveMcKing
("No empire collapses because of technical reasons. They collapse because they are unnatural.")
To: RWR8189
Sounds like evolution to me. Does this mean that white people are more evolved than all the other races, or are we all just mutants?
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:29:33 PM PST
by
Delta 21
(MKC USCG-ret)
To: RWR8189
There is only one problem with these donkeys theory. White skin genes aren't dominant.
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:29:44 PM PST
by
A6M3
To: RWR8189
That simply is NOT how genetics worked. If skin tone were one gene, everyone would be pitch black or Swesdish white, and would be dominant or recessive. The fact that there are so many ranges of skin color means that it has to be a product of many genes.
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:30:22 PM PST
by
dangus
To: txflake
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:31:29 PM PST
by
dangus
To: RWR8189
Sow how do they explain Eminem?
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:33:27 PM PST
by
WestVirginiaRebel
(The Democratic Party-Jackass symbol, jackass leaders, jackass supporters.)
To: A6M3
>> There is only one problem with these donkeys theory. White skin genes aren't dominant <<
Actually, most spot mutations are recessive. The problem is that skin color is not recessive or dominant
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:33:29 PM PST
by
dangus
To: Slings and Arrows
To: Reactionary
"...a finding that helps solve one of biology's most enduring mysteries and illuminates one of humanity's greatest sources of strife." I agree; BS garbage.
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