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Re:All Non-Africans Part Neanderthal, Genetics Confirm by yot on Sunday July 24, 2011 @01:52PM (#2799881)
Thank you. I don't understand how the diversity between averages can be smaller and what I had understood not be true.

http://i.imgur.com/1k6Ct.jpg

I'm not arguing any position, just trying to understand without being very familiar with genetics or statistics. Maybe I've read the studies the way you presented it but my simple mind interpreted it that way. I'm guessing there is a huge flaw in what I drew but I don't see it, I can't picture in my mind what you meant.

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Re:All Non-Africans Part Neanderthal, Genetics Confirm by bugsy on Sunday July 24, 2011 @02:20PM (#2799959)
In your drawing, I think it should be where the blue and green scatters are completely overlapping, that would be more like the actual data. They would be completely separate scatter plots if it was comparing something like humans to algae or such. Even humans and elephants have a lot of overlap in their DNA, you'd have to get pretty different to have no overlap.
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