DNA Suggests Three Basic Human Groups 459
Death Metal writes "All of Earth's people, according to a new analysis of the genomes of 53 populations, fall into just three genetic groups. They are the products of the first and most important journey our species made — the walk out of Africa about 70,000 years ago by a small fraction of ancestral Homo sapiens."
You mean the three sons of Noah? (Score:5, Funny)
Three Sons of Noah [wikipedia.org] are supposed to be the ancestors of us all.
Really? (Score:1, Funny)
Don't tell me that scientists are actually confirming what Christian theologians have been saying all along about Noah's 3 sons being the division of ethnicity's... dates notwithstanding?
3 types of people. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:You mean the three sons of Noah? (Score:4, Funny)
I don't think so (Score:5, Funny)
Unless one of Noah's sons was black, one was white, and one was east-asian, this is pretty much not possible.
Re:confirmation of previous grouping (Score:2, Funny)
Or, less politely: nigras, azns, and honkies.
Three groups we've all seen (Score:3, Funny)
The Science nerds, P.E. jocks, and the Marketing schmoozers
Re:3 types of people. (Score:4, Funny)
Close... People who make things happen, people who let things happen, and people who say "What the hell just happened?"
Re:Will this be the future of racism? (Score:5, Funny)
blacks vs whites vs christians vs atheists vs global warming followers vs global warming deniers vs pro-life vs pro-choice vs republicans vs democrats vs whatever
One ring, one winner. Tonight on ESPN.
South Park did it... (Score:2, Funny)
Dicks, pussies and assholes
Re:These are the real 3 groups (Score:5, Funny)
I thought the three groups were those who are good at math, and those who aren't.
i thought (Score:0, Funny)
This changes everything (Score:1, Funny)
Re:You mean the three sons of Noah? (Score:5, Funny)
A "well duh" moment.. (Score:4, Funny)
Ya i agree, Captain Obvious strikes again, and got tons of funding to do it.
What is next, 1/2 a million to find out men don't like condoms? oh wait, that was last week..
Re:I don't think so (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Will this be the future of racism? (Score:3, Funny)
The good news is, they're working on death.
The bad news is, they had to give up working on taxes to pay for it.
Racist nonsense (Score:3, Funny)
Re:i thought (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I don't think so (Score:5, Funny)
Unless one of Noah's sons was black, one was white, and one was east-asian, this is pretty much not possible.
So you're saying we probably all come from the Village People?
Re:You mean the three sons of Noah? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I don't think so (Score:5, Funny)
Well a little further up I did see someone saying we came from a lot of different homos having sex.
Re:Will this be the future of racism? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:confirmation of previous grouping (Score:3, Funny)
...The suprise is at the degree of genomic similarity ...
This is no surprise for someone like me who believes that the Bible is true. These three people that restart the human race came from one set of parents and therefore should have most of their genes in common. It is only logical that the three brothers Shem. Japheth and Ham would share most of the genetic code of their father and pass it on to succeeding generations along with certain individual variations that we still see today. What is so strange about that?
Re:You mean the three sons of Noah? (Score:2, Funny)
I really should mod you down for that, but I'll let you slide just one time...
Wrong (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, there are only two groups: Us and Them.
three? (Score:3, Funny)
windows, mac, and linux users?
The only question to be answered now (Score:4, Funny)
Wow! Only three groups of humans. Then we have only one question left to answer:
Which group do we put on the B-Ark?
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Re:I don't think so (Score:4, Funny)
More important than the diverse ethnicity of Noah's sons is the still-unanswered question of how their tri-homosexual mating could have given rise to such a large population in just 6000 years.
Just three? (Score:1, Funny)
"All of Earth's text documents can be divided into just 26 groups, taking only their starting letter into account."
Re:You mean the three sons of Noah? (Score:1, Funny)
Wait a minute. Did Noah have daughters too?
Maybe, but aren't they a bit old by now?
Re:You mean the three sons of Noah? (Score:1, Funny)
Sorry to contradict you, but there are in fact 10 types of people in the world : those who understand ternary, those who don't, and those who think its binary.
Re:I don't think so (Score:5, Funny)
He was the only human who ever lived a perfect life and never did anything wrong in thought and deed.
I'm sick of every thread being taken over by an Apple fanatic. How about the Apple III? Explain that.
Re:You mean the three sons of Noah? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:You mean the three sons of Noah? (Score:4, Funny)
But that's 100 types of people! yuk yuk yuk
Re:You mean the three sons of Noah? (Score:5, Funny)
My wife and I adopted three children from three different ethnic groups when they were infants (less than 6 months). They're all in the 3-4 age range now. One is a mayan indian boy, one is a typically hispanic girl, and one is a vietnamese girl. They look totally different from each other. In spite of this, people keep asking us if they're natural triplets. This of course is a great source of hilarity for my wife and me.
Are they triplets?
Yes... man, was that a wild summer.
Are they all yours?
Shhhh, she doesn't know she's not the mother!
My favorite question is people asking whether they speak english.
Re:You mean the three sons of Noah? (Score:1, Funny)
> Scientists say it's probably because of super-volcano 75,000 years ago that wiped out most of our ancestors
This should be obvious, but the ones that got wiped out were probably NOT our ancestors!