Friday, September 30, 2011

Do Human Races Exist?

Uploaded by C0nc0rdance on Sep 15, 2011

My haplogroupist joke:
Q: How do you get a drink out of a haplogroup C person?
A: Stick your finger down their throat. The cheap bast-erds.
(see, it doesn't work)

More about haplogroups:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=haplogroup

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Category:

Education

Genetic Bucket Chain, Part 1

Uploaded by C0nc0rdance on Sep 30, 2011

This is the story of how you and Inuk are almost certainly both direct descendants of Confucius.

NOTE: Yes, Julius Caesar was a poor choice, and Cleopatra is not much better. Their heirs may have been part of the 20% that we are NOT related to. Confucius, on the other hand, is much clearer.

Part 2 will be posted when I can finish it, probably on Saturday. My apologies for the sound quality, my microphone is in the slow process of death. I'm sure this one is riddled with math errors. Feel free to point them out.

References:

http://www.stat.yale.edu/%7Ejtc5/papers/CommonAncestors/NatureCommonAncestors...

http://www.stat.yale.edu/~jtc5/papers/Ancestors.pdf

JUST OUT:
Am J Phys Anthropol. 2011 Oct;146(2):242-52.
"No evidence of Neandertal admixture in the mitochondrial genomes of early European modern humans and contemporary Europeans."
"Neandertals, the archaic human form documented in Eurasia until 29,000 years ago, share no mitochondrial haplotype with modern Europeans. "

Category:

Education

Genetic Bucket Chain, part 2

Uploaded by C0nc0rdance on Sep 30, 2011

I know this is counter-intuitive. All the really interesting science is. If you have strong evidence to contradict the research on which these publications are based, by all means present it.

"I don't believe it" is not an adequate argument, though.

There may very well be some isolated populations, but to be truly isolated from the bucket chain, they would have to have no contact with any tribes who ever had contact with more distant tribes. Isolated Pacific Islands seem the best candidate, but the Polynesians were island-hopping the Pacific in the 400s AD.

References:
http://www.stat.yale.edu/%7Ejtc5/papers/CommonAncestors/NatureCommonAncestors...

http://www.stat.yale.edu/~jtc5/papers/Ancestors.pdf