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From: "Marshall Feldman" <marsh-AT-uri.edu>
Subject: BHA: RE: Re: DNA coup d'tat of anthropology
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 16:52:37 -0400


Here is a correction about the allegedly "Jewish genes" (some of you may
remember a Saturday Night Live skit with this theme, but that's another
story). They weren't any such thing. What was the case is among
self-identified Jews of European ancestry approximately 10% are considered
"Cohaneem" or high priests. According to biblical tradition, these Jews are
descendants of Aaron, Moses' brother. DNA tests on these Jews do indeed
indicate that they had a common male ancestor about 3200 years ago. The
African tribe observes almost all same the biblical laws (e.g., dietary
laws, Sabbath observance, etc.) as do Jews with European ancestry. Included
here is the tradition of identifying some of their members as high priests.
It turns out that the high priests in the African tribe have the identical
gene indicating the same common male ancestor about 3200 years ago as do the
Europeans.

So, rather than have distinctly "Jewish genes," what we have here is a DNA
confirmation of common male ancestor that is remarkably consistent with
Biblical lore and (what has heretofore been considered) Jewish tradition.

	Marsh Feldman

BTW, I recently read that DNA evidence indicates that roughly one in every
200 Englishmen (sic) has African (i.e., "black") ancestry. Historians
ascribe this to the Roman occupation of the British Isles.

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> Subject: BHA: Re: DNA coup d'tat of anthropology
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> Michael
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> Your article calls for further elaboration about this 'white'
> (sic ) i.e. Europeans and 'black'(sic) (Africans) genes. Moreover
> if one has been in countries like Mozambique, Brazil, Angola and
> indeed Cuba the very fact of our ancestry becomes even more
> interesting. I like that world intermingling- by the way peoples
> of Rwanda, Burundi and Western Uganda are said to have migrated
> from Ethiopia. Something which will suggest going by genetic
> science findings that indeed they must have some Arabian genes
> etc., however that is yet to be established however the
> anthropological case studies have already made these facts very clear.
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> A British geneticist (i have forgotten the names) discovered
> Africans in South African with Jewish genes, which makes the Jews
> more widespread than thought before.
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> Given to the fact that Dr. Leaky found the first man in Kenya the
> time is now, for all of us to claim world citizenship by
> denouncing state sanctioned citizenship laws.
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> Bwanika.
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> "Michael I. Lichter" <Lichter-AT-UCLAlumni.net> wrote:
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> > There are no "white" genes, no "black" genes, no "British"
> genes. To present
> > findings in this way reinforces racist and ethnocentric categories even
> > while ostensibly undermining them. Distinct populations may
> have different
> > prevalences of particular genes, and those prevalences may
> change when the
> > populations intermingle, but this should not have to be
> described in racial
> > or ethnic terms.
> >
> > -ml
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