<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I read awhile back (sorry excuse for not remembering my sources) that the genetic diversity in a small pygmy village was greater than the diversity in all of the U.S. Aside from not knowing what to do with data like this, it makes me wonder just what did happen to diversity among those who left AFrica long ago. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 3:55 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4">William Flynn Wallace <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Wrote<br></span></font> <br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I am with Keith. Take the average black person and average white person: there are dozens of differences between them</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">…<span style="color:black"> bill w</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">True, but if you pick 2 chimpanzees at random you will find far greater genetic diversity between the chimps than with 2 humans picked at random. It's thought that for reasons that remain unclear the human population seems to have dropped to very low numbers about 80,000 years ago, perhaps to only a few hundred, and all of us are descendants of those survivors.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div>
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