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Re:DNA reveals we are all genetic mutts by rayiner on Monday March 04, 2019 @07:49AM (#19300812)
> Genetics also show that India’s caste system, previously thought to have developed under colonial rule, was in place thousands of years earlier.

This is such a shockingly ignorant statement that I wonder what Harvard is teaching these days.

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Re:DNA reveals we are all genetic mutts by telotortium on Monday March 04, 2019 @01:27PM (#19303786)
Look up David Reich. The actual finding is that many Jātis show genetic evidence that interbreeding with other Jātis has been negligible over the past 2000 years. It's not necessarily a statement of the social relations between the Jātis, let alone the varnas.
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