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Genographic, is worthwhile doing the test?         


Date: Jun 10, 2008 12:58

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/genographic info (EN)

documentary on the project (EN) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmlVG_1wAa8

what do you think?
I'd like to take the test but I'm not so sure about its reliability.
Some opinion?

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Re: Genographic, is worthwhile doing the test?         


Author: caldervangogh
Date: Jun 10, 2008 22:02

On Jun 10, 3:58 pm, "Amleto, il danese." <[ http://casa.bestitalia.org
| case vendita ]> wrote:
> http://www.nationalgeographic.com/genographicinfo (EN)
>
> documentary on the project (EN)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmlVG_1wAa8
>
> what do you think?
> I'd like to take the test but I'm not so sure about its reliability.
> Some opinion?
>
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>
> -- ------- --
> Sentence of the Day:
> << there is 10 kind of persons in the world, the one who knows binary code,
> and the one who doesn't.>>
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Date: Jun 11, 2008 01:01

gmail.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:f1981a98-b0c9-4812-99ab-2e597c9644cc@a1g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
>It is okay. pretty good info. I have done a similar testing to
>figure out a "same name" problem in genealogy. It worked, and
>included the results that are seen in the nat'l geo test. haplogroups,
>etc.
--c

Hi,
what kind of test did you do?

the problem is that I would like to know to what kind of particular human
race I belong,
I mean genetically if possible.

This test tells you that too?
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Author: caldervangogh
Date: Jun 11, 2008 06:22

On Jun 11, 4:01 am, "Amleto, il danese." <[ http://casa.bestitalia.org
| case vendita ]> wrote:
> gmail.com> ha scritto nel messaggionews:f1981a98-b0c9-4812-99ab-2e597c9644cc@a1g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...>It is okay.  pretty good info.  I have done a similar testing to
>>figure out a "same name" problem in genealogy.  It worked, and
>>included the results that are seen in the nat'l geo test. haplogroups,
>>etc.
>
> --c
>
> Hi,
> what kind of test did you do?
>
> the problem is that I would like to know to what kind of particular human
> race I belong,
> I mean genetically if possible.
>
> This test tells you that too?

(Ross? Are you seeing this?... ie, there is no such thing as "race"
in anthropology )
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Date: Jun 12, 2008 06:52

what is the best test to know to what Human Genotype one belongs?
(I mean causasian, semitic, asian or other)
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Author: Daryl Krupa
Date: Jun 12, 2008 16:24

On Jun 12, 7:52 am, "Amleto, il danese." <[ http://casa.bestitalia.org
| case vendita ]> wrote:
> what is the best test to know to what Human Genotype one belongs?
> (I mean causasian, semitic, asian or other)

There is no such test.
"Caucasian" is a term based on a 17th Century French traveler's
unsubstantiated aomment on the sexual preferences of Turkish
harem eunuchs, i.e. fair-skinned, dark-haired women...
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Date: Jun 12, 2008 18:18

"Daryl Krupa" yahoo.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:c33fc21f-4807-4d66-a414-
> Your classification system is not useful.

this could be, but since human race is divided in different and quite
distinguishable phenotype
there must be differences on the genotype which tell the same thing
(of course, I'm not looking for a racial label, but there is no need of such
a precisation here, I imagine)

what I am looking for is the genetical differences which differ asian from
white fron black from native americans etc.

there is not such a study on human race?
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Author: G Horvat
Date: Jun 12, 2008 22:21

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:18:40 +0200, "Amleto, il danese." <[
http://casa.bestitalia.org | case vendita ]> wrote:
>
>"Daryl Krupa" yahoo.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
>news:c33fc21f-4807-4d66-a414-
>> Your classification system is not useful.
>
>this could be, but since human race is divided in different and quite
>distinguishable phenotype
>there must be differences on the genotype which tell the same thing
>(of course, I'm not looking for a racial label, but there is no need of such
>a precisation here, I imagine)
>
>what I am looking for is the genetical differences which differ asian from
>white fron black from native americans etc.
>
>there is not such a study on human race?

Your mtDNA sequence type would be the same as your mother's (as
opposed to that of your father's).
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Author: Daryl Krupa
Date: Jun 13, 2008 01:29

On Jun 12, 7:18 pm, "Amleto, il danese." <[ http://casa.bestitalia.org
| case vendita ]> wrote:
> "Daryl Krupa" yahoo.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
> news:c33fc21f-4807-4d66-a414-
>
>>  Your classification system is not useful.
>
> this could be, but since human race is divided
> in different and quite distinguishable phenotype
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Date: Jun 13, 2008 04:49

"Daryl Krupa" yahoo.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> You have just used four racial labels.
> That means that you are, by definition, a racist.
> Racial classification is not useful.

if that had been the definition of racism I would have been a racist,
but racism is the theory for which there would be differences in value
between different human phenotype,
and I don't say that.
> there is not such a study on human race?
> Oh, there were, back when intelligent people had
> been fooled into thinking that racial classifications
> might be useful. Now, we know better.

Are you sure, is that an opinion or a scientific discovery?

Is there anything bad in saying I am culturally russian or chinese?
I don't think so.
So why should it be in some way bad to say I am genetically native american
or scandinavian?
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