[ExI] Religious Idiocy Triumphs Over Science Yet Again

[Tara Maya]

In all seriousness, quite true. I have about 3% Native American DNA, but unfortunately, the test I took doesn’t give me any more refinement than that…. I would love to know what tribe, as that would give me some clue when it entered the tree. No one of the generation/s when it must of occurred would own up it in the historical record. So, somebody was “passing” as something other than Native American back in the day. I sure would like to know who!  I wonder what they would think if they knew that to their descendants it would be a source of pride not shame? And what a pity they felt they had to lie or hide.

Tara Maya
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> On Dec 6, 2015, at 12:32 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
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> From: extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org>] On Behalf Of Tara Maya
> Subject: Re: [ExI] Religious Idiocy Triumphs Over Science Yet Again
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> I believe all of us can trace our ancestors to Africa.   ;)
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> Tara Maya
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> Ja.  But with these 100 dollar DNA tests, we can reach back about 8 to 10 generations (ish (I am working on a statistical model to determine the uncertainty on that (made a cool breakthrough yesterday.)))
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> We are all Africans, but if it is recent enough to show up with one of these inexpensive tests, then you are African.  If anyone gives you any trouble about it, by pointing to your blonde hair, chalky white skin and blue eyes for instance, ask them to show you their DNA results.  Every real African American I know on there has at least *some* European ancestry.
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> DNA is a fun game if you have a sense of humor.
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> spike
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