DNA reveals we are all genetic mutts

Re:DNA reveals we are all genetic mutts by ng12 on Sunday March 03, 2019 @10:26PM (#19298552)

I don't think it's a rebuke at all. The other side of the coin is to make sure you're the steppe tribes, not the hunter-gatherers. People who care about such things don't really care about purity, they care about winners and losers.

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Re:DNA reveals we are all genetic mutts by danans on Sunday March 03, 2019 @11:22PM (#19298756)

> The other side of the coin is to make sure you're the steppe tribes, not the hunter-gatherers.

This doesn't follow from the researcher's statement at all. Just because the mechanism by which diversity happened thousands of years ago was often terrible doesn't mean we need to project that upon today, when we have much better mechanisms for genetic diversity, like immigration.

We, as a human society, have improved just a bit.

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Re:DNA reveals we are all genetic mutts by ng12 on Monday March 04, 2019 @12:16AM (#19298970)

> We, as a human society, have improved just a bit.

I think it's debatable. The tribes are much bigger but really little has changed.

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