How can it be that ALL people who share a certain mutation in their DNA are assumed to have descended from ONE person who initially acquired the...
These lineages have nothing to do with "looks". "Y-chromosome and mitochondrial DNA genealogies are especially interesting because they...
(continued) Europeans? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Y-chromosome_DNA_haplogroup The R and N Europeans are much more closely related to the O...
However, if creatures who see one another as the same kind AND can have fully fertile kids, but cannot (at least temporarily) mate under natural...
Without question, "species" is THE most important category in bio-classification. Now, there have been really big problems on how a species is...
Difference in the number of chromosomes is not in itself sufficient to prevent interfertility, especially since the human chromosome 2 is two ape...
Primatology is now under anthropology, apparently, because the latter was too "narrow".
I take it that no one ever tried to determine whether chimps, orangutans, gorillas are interfertile?
Now that the Neanderthal Genome Project, equally massive as the Human Genome Project, is near completion? [IMG] If so, what will be the social...
At the quantum level, everything is "fuzzy" and this troubles our brains, because we use linear thinking. For instance, in the quantum world, weird...
OK, this really has to do with primatology, which is still a branch of biological anthropology. I was wondering if chimps, gorillas, orangutans, the...
Our brains use linear thinking, that is A goes to B and B goes to C thus A goes to C, it's simplified I know but essentially that's what it is. Our...
Better yet, consider this: technology is an extension of the capabilities of the brain. The level of technology depends on the level of science,...
The four great ancient civilizations: the ancient Mesopotamians, the ancient Egyptians, the ancient Chinese, the ancient Greeks, had their share of...
As for why people who lived in different places for a long time look different, where is no single theory agreed upon by everyone. My theory is that...
Good point. But I think some people are too paranoid and too hang-up on talking about Nazism. :eek: Nazism rose because of the Depression and the...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article4168245.ece I am deeply angered by this! Chinese people should be white in the...
I can't believe some people are still talking about Nazism in 2008! :shrug: They were an evil and crazy cult, and them and their crazy allies were...
That's correct. Martial arts are sometimes practiced by monks in China, who, in the past, used their martial arts skilled to help the poor and the...
How is the border of Asia defined anyhow? It's not a country, so there is no national border for Asia. Who defined Asia and what was the original...
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