From: DBBwanika-AT-netscape.net
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 11:51:38 -0400
Subject: BHA: [Fwd: Re: DNA coup d'tat of anthropology]



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From: <DBBwanika-AT-netscape.net>
To: <ktoktami-AT-pratt.edu>
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 5:16 AM
Subject: Re: DNA coup d'tat of anthropology


 Kumru
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> The question is complicated and hard to answer however
> going by some knowledge in colour science it might
> ,I think that a black gene is that, which does not reflect light
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> bwanika
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> "Kumru Toktamis" <ktoktami-AT-pratt.edu> wrote:
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> > What is a black gene?
> > kumru
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> > Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 1:26 AM
> > Subject: DNA coup d'tat of anthropology
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> > > Subject:  White bodies with black genes
> > > Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 19:34:52 -0000
> > > From: "J Ssemakula"
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> > > Saturday May 19 10:28 PM ET
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> > > DNA Shows Black Genes in White Britons
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> > > LONDON (Reuters) - One in every 100 ``white'' Britons is directly
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> > > from an African or Asian, a study into DNA has found.
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> > > The study's author, Bryan Sykes, professor of human genetics at Oxford
> > > University, believes the DNA originates in Africans brought to Britain
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> > > soldiers and slaves by the Romans, the Sunday Times said.
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> > > The study, which looked at the DNA of more than 10,000 people, found
that
> > > many who believed their ancestry to be completely British were
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> > > more diverse.
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> > > ``This makes nonsense of any biological basis for racial
classification,''
> > > the newspaper quoted Sykes as saying. ``We are all a complex mixture
and,
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> > > the same time, we are all related.''
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> > > Among those whom Sykes found with a strong selection of African genes
were
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> > > dairy farmer from Somerset in southern England whose British ancestry
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> > > be traced back hundreds of years.
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