A Genetic Portrait : What's in America's DNA?
http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2012-04-25/genetic-portrait-whats-americas-dna
Americans like to think of their country as a cultural melting pot. But that diversity can make it difficult for those trying to trace their ancestry. DNA testing is teaching us more about our nation's earliest settlers and providing interesting, often surprising, insights into our shared past. Geneticist Bryan Sykes joins Kojo to explore what he uncovered on a trip across the United States.
Guests
Bryan Sykes
professor of human genetics, University of Oxford; founder, Oxford Ancestors, author, "DNA USA: A Genetic Portrait of America" (Liveright, 2012)
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How is it that there was one proto-woman, if evolution is a given? Wouldn't life be evolving simultaneously, if not in different places, at least in more than one organism at a time, giving rise to more than one early woman?
Thanks, Mary in Arnold
How is it that there was one proto-woman, if evolution is a given? Wouldn't life be evolving simultaneously, if not in different places, at least in more than one organism at a time, giving rise to more than one early woman?
Thanks, Mary in Arnold
I have come across a person who is a white nationalist who claims that whites, or Caucasians, inhabited the continental United States first, and that migrating tribes from Asia wiped them out. I find this claim dubious, and I wonder if his theory holds water. Can you comment on this?
It was offensive that Prof Sykes made such a big deal about his desire to expose the African genes of "white KKK racists" so that he could offer to remove whatever vital organs were affected by those genes, a counterfactual experience, when you contrast his ACTUAL experience with blacks who, by his own admission, were "angry" when they found they had European genes. I guess he wouldn't offer the black racists the same benefit. They'd probably smash him in the mouth. This is another example of the social acceptance and encouragement of racism directed against people of European descent. And he's supposed to be smart.