The problem of Cthulhu

brunians at brunians.org · 21 Jun 2007, 17:07 · from 2007-June.txt.gz

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From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:07:19 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: (urth) The problem of Cthulhu
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>> Like I say: if your theory requires that humans not fuck, your theory is
>> wrong.

> It's a good thing there are no such theories in play, then.

> Mutual infertility in no way implies a lack of fucky-wucky.

On the other hand:

matthew at calmeilles.co.uk writes:
> Batrinque at aol.com wrote:

>> To date, no DNA evidence exists of any genetic contribution to
>> presentday humans.

http://genetics.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pgen.0020105.eor

> "Using sequence data from the Environmental Genome Project, we find strong
> evidence for ancient admixture in both a European and a West African
> population (p ~ 10^{-7}), with contributions to the modern gene pool of at
> least 5%. While Neanderthals form an obvious archaic source population
> candidate in Europe, there is not yet a clear source population candidate
> in West Africa."




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