Mystery of Ascia

Ryan Dunn · 22 Jan 2011, 01:43 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: ryan at liftingfaces.com (Ryan Dunn)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:43:37 -0500
Subject: (urth) Mystery of Ascia
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On Jan 21, 2011, at 8:34 PM, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 50,000 years is a very short time in evolutionary history and for you to claim that Swedes have
> lost genes in that brief moment rather than had them shut off is a ridiculous statement to make 
> without doing a full multi-population gene sequencing and comparison of both populations. Nobody 
> would waste the time and money to do such a worthless assay but it doesn't matter. Admixture
> would do the trick long before genetic adaptation would kick in.

Ouch! Why so harsh? Is Berman Swedish? Hehh.

...ryan

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