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pocketlint60

Apr 25, 2022 at 07:05PM EDT

"This beautiful race are the originals and this evil race are artificial people who were created later by evil science" is literally the backstory of orcs.

I find it interesting that black supremacists are going with the "Black people are the original race and are therefore superior" when studies have shown that Africans have the least amount of Neanderthal DNA of all modern peoples, which to me implies they might be one of the youngest extant racial identities. You think these racist schizos would've gone with the "White people are relics of the past and we're new and improved" nonsense instead of this.

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Jill Moderator

Apr 25, 2022 at 07:29PM EDT in reply to pocketlint60

Yes, I think that people who actually are trying to argue that their ethnicity is superior to any other ethnicity is dumb but.

"studies have shown that Africans have the least amount of Neanderthal DNA of all modern peoples, which to me implies they might be one of the youngest extant racial identities."

I'm sorry, but how in the hell did you interpret that?

People who were from Africa largely didn't leave Africa, so they did not mingle with human species that lived outside of Africa as shown in their genetic ancestry means… they are "younger" than the people who did leave Africa and did mingle? How exactly are you threading that needle? Africa has more genetic diversity than the rest of the world which would make sense if it was the source population for modern humans.

Both those in and out of Africa continually adapted culturally and had new and different pressures on them after they diverged. Both have an equal amount of time between the last universal human ancestor between them.

Timey16

Apr 27, 2022 at 03:44PM EDT in reply to pocketlint60

Wait… do you think Neanderthals are our ancestors? No they aren't, not really at least, they are a cousin species that lived BESIDES the Homo Sapiens and in some rare instances mixed with them. But no they are not a "prior" step of our evolutionary line.

Africans have least amount of Neanderthal genes because Neanderthals never existed in Africa for them to mix with.

Homo Sapiens only mixed with Neanderthals due to migrating out of Africa into Europe and Northern Asia.

So no the lack of Neanderthal DNA does the opposite: it proves them being the oldest genetic Homo Sapiens strain.

From what we know "ethnicities" as we know them only settled at ~5,000 BCE so before that most humans looked rather similar or had more "wild mixes" with a kid being able to be black even though it had white parents just because those genes are still inside and just decided to come out again. Or rather some sort of in-between. But human history (and especially evolutionary history wise), human "races" are an EXTREMELY recent development and pretty much a result of humans settling down.