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Originally Posted by HoreTore

Because creationism is the peak of ignorance.

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IIRC you hugged me for something I posted about nationalism in Europe - I would like to return the favour.

yes becuase that's what this forum is for the mastabatoury expression of the same opinoin where we all stroke eachother for how intellectual we are

got it

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Originally Posted by Strike For The South

yes becuase that's what this forum is for the mastabatoury expression of the same opinoin where we all stroke eachother for how intellectual we are

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It took you since 2005 to find that out? What a slowpoke you are :)

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Originally Posted by Skullheadhq

I would say the same about evolution, but this is not what this thread is about.

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Then you would be wrong. 'Nuff said.

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Originally Posted by Subotan

IIRC you hugged me for something I posted about nationalism in Europe - I would like to return the favour.

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~:grouphug:

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Originally Posted by Strike For The South

yes becuase that's what this forum is for the mastabatoury expression of the same opinoin where we all stroke eachother for how intellectual we are

got it

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No, it's about inserting hidden penis jokes. Haven't you figured it out yet...? Man, some people are slooooooooow.... Right, now I'm off to watch Angelina bounce her big boobs around in tight clothes in Tomb Raider. Lateeeeeer....

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Originally Posted by Viking

What I am having in mind is recessive genes - that certain bits of DNA may largely become inactive because it becomes dominated; that it in once certain ethnicity typically was not dominated.

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Recessive genes doesn't really disappear. Take being blond for example. That will be reduced early on when mixing etnicies, since you'll get people with 1 blond, 1 brown genes (thus being brown haired). But they won't die out and getting 1/4 of their children as blondes. But since blondes are popular, they will have more children, thus slowly increasing with time anyway. The local recessive gene will thus increase in the total population if considered better, even if it will be expressed more rarely in the early and middle phase of the population mixing.

Blondness is not going to fend off pandemics. The genes that will could actually be a disadvantage outside the its ethnicity of origin. I am not saying that the recessive genes will disappear, but if they are rare, then globalisatoin would mean that they would become scattered and it could become increasingly rare for them to become 'activated', or whatever is the appropriate term.

Dad used to use positive hybridization with Maine Anjou & Angus cattle to good effect.

I'm not so sure that outside of Europe brown hair genes are dominant. I've seen enough Eurasian (half Chinese and half Nordic) kids with light brown to blond hair to wonder about that. Part of it is more that a trait can be effected by a suite of genes not just a single pairing.

End of the day the differences between any one ethnic group is not as large a jump as between the sexes.

.....nor is the jump in difference between two members of different ethnic groups greater than the difference between two members of the same ethnic group.

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Originally Posted by Papewaio

Dad used to use positive hybridization with Maine Anjou & Angus cattle to good effect.

I'm not so sure that outside of Europe brown hair genes are dominant. I've seen enough Eurasian (half Chinese and half Nordic) kids with light brown to blond hair to wonder about that. Part of it is more that a trait can be effected by a suite of genes not just a single pairing.

End of the day the differences between any one ethnic group is not as large a jump as between the sexes.

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The cause here is that blond hair is also (strongly) sexually selected for, so it overcomes its recessive status as allele. Tall, (fair) and blond, to be precise.

Can't be as recessive as we think it is. First generation European/Asian kids can have anything from black to blonde hair. It might be that what we think of as blonde being recessive is only in comparison to European/Middle East black haired genes. It seems to me that the blond Euopean genes are expressed when mixed with Asian black hair... This indicates something different in the genes that make hair black between Europe and the far east.