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Re:Humans are more closely related than we commonly think by Gibbon1 on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @05:01AM (#24695905)
Odd stuff I've read. There wasn't no contact. But contact was very limited. It's northern Australia is 100-300 miles from parts of Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, etc.

Also also genes that don't confer any particular advantage tend to peter out when inserted into large populations.

Above my pay grade but I think that argues that the genetic difference that do exist tend to either not confer any particular advantage, like maybe shape of your nose, hair color. Or confer some limited advantage, skin pigmentation for instance seems to be strongly associated with solar radiation and dietary availability of Folic Acid and Vit D.

Re:Humans are more closely related than we commonly think by gdrift on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @07:17AM (#24696567)
> genes that don't confer any particular advantage tend to peter out when inserted into large populations

Not sure that's true.

Natural selection is not the only force driving evolution.

Neutral and nearly neutral (slightly deleterious) alleles can be fixed in a population by random genetic drift.

Source: https://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-importance-of-rando...

Re:Humans are more closely related than we commonly think by wahern on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @05:32AM (#24696067)
> not confer any particular advantage, like maybe shape of your nose

Nose shapes are selected for by temperature and humidity. That's probably not the only selection pressure, but it's a major one.