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[Alexander King]

Ron,

Thanks for the continuing discussion.

>Alexander, thanks for your comments. Actually, I think the argument 
>is the other way around. In general, people of sub-Saharan Africa 
>exhibit greater genetic diversity than populations outside Africa, 
>the result presumably of genetic drift: the migrating populations 
>were not representative samples of the genetic diversity that 
>existed in the founding population.

Thanks for the clarification. Does this argument rely on the 
assumption that Africa is ground zero? Would one get a different 
model if one assumed, just for sake of argument, that ground zero is 
south asia or some other place? I will also ask my favorite 
geneticists (yes, I know two, one working on flies, the other on 
humans).


>Anyway... If anyone thinks of anything else we can drag out of 
>Shreeve's statement, let me know. I'm preparing a letitor.

If you're writing to NGS, can I suggest the obvious point that San 
people have been subject to genocide (i.e., shooting all the men, 
women, and children) by both white settlers and black 
agriculturalists over the last 150 years, and this was justified by 
the subhuman or primitive status of San/Bushmen/Hottentots?

best,
Alex
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