This is what gets me. Why is genetic difference considered a bad thing? Apparently, human beings who hail from Europe and Asia have anywhere between one and four percent Neanderthal DNA (the Cro-Magnons mated with them, true) but people of pure African blood have none of this. So let’s face it, there’s a genetic difference. If this is true, and it seems to be so, then Africans who have never left Africa share between 96% and 99% of the human genome with everyone else on earth.
Women and men have one chromosomal difference. The XX and XY. So of the forty-six chromosomes we each carry, well, one of them is always a Y in men and woman do not have this at all. That’s pretty different.
So forget equality for a second…I think reasonable people can assume there are genetic differences, some pretty major ones, between at least full-on Africans and Euro-Asians, and between men and women.
How this could not make differences in people is beyond Biological reality.
But let’s face it! Who cares! It does not mean anyone is better or worse than anyone else. It just means there are differences. Why are people so obsessed with saying that everyone is the same? I say, let’s enjoy our chromosomal varietals and have a big celebration and really find out exactly what the differences are and maximize the fun of all that.
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Okay, viva la difference but I'm confused. If Homo Sapiens came from Africa but Neanderthal did not, how could they breed? Don't species have to be somewhat related to make offspring? I mean, a zebra and a donkey can make a baby but not an elephant and a donkey. Right? So if Neanderthals didn't come from Africa but everyone else did, how can we have branched from the same family tree? I don't care but I'm just curious.
Sung to the tune of the Wizard of OZ song:
It happened just like this,
Cro-magnons got an itch,
And found some sexy 'Nanderthals that put them in a twist,
"I wish, to mate with you, you dish, let's have a go, an interspecies hitch."
Basically, since Cro-Mags and Neanders share a root ancestor, their genes were close enough to create viable offspring...Lucky them! (I have my eye on this pig down the hall...)
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