Scientists discover white skin a genetic mutation

http://www.theroot.com/views/scientists-find-dna-change-accounting-white-skin?wpsrc=OB00000001&wpisrc=obnetwork

nofay said:

Reading is fundamental.

The Root wrote: Read the rest of this article at the Washington Post.

The Washington Post wrote: Friday, December 16, 2005

So???!!! All that shows is that it is old news that whiteness is a mutation. Come agian now...

Edtor's Note from The Root: As many have noted since this posted, this article was first published in 2005 and was promoted last week in error. If you wish to continue reading, please keep that in mind.

By Rick Weiss

Washington Post Staff Writer

Doesnt matter is still the truth.

I take it that you're not overly familiar with the theory of evolution?

I don't think anyone is denying the article's truth, just its importance.

I think everyone is aware that everyone evolved from East Africa thousands of years ago, and then various mutations and adaptations occurred to make some of us have big ears, some have blue eyes, some have huge feet, some have darker skin, some have more coordination, etc.

But 2005 was a good year for "discovering" this all again. Hopefully someone will get funded to discover this all again in 2012.

....I should write a proposal to the government to make the next researcher be me, so I can get paid for concluding the same thing.

The root posted it today and you are missing the point.

Whyfi-

Let's write a proposal so we can be funded to discover evolution again.

It'll be great.

We will get the our "new results" published and everything.

Like Columbus, I'll claim that my discovery is mine alone, and that no one else has discovered it before me.

Shit. I'm late for homeroom, I forgot to do my evolution homework, and I think I might not get into my first choice college.

Whynot, with all due respect, you already know what to do so assume the position...

nofay said:

The root posted it today and you are missing the point.

Actually, I think that you're missing the point and implanting your own point in place of it, but go ahead and enlighten us - from your perspective, what is the point?

Boygabriel-

I bet your present knowledge of evolution is quite sufficient.

...but I predict that this study and the thousands of others studies like it, should be forwarded to the Kansas school board.

They could deny its truth, and we could shake our heads at them.

Then, Whyfi and I could get paid to do another study that reached the same conclusions: Humanity has the same genetic roots.

The fun never ends!

^^^ but how is this going to affect my UI?

Whyfi-

By the time the government gets around to approving the grant and then paying us to re-prove evolution, your UI will have expired.

You gotta look to the future!

In this case, the future involves looking again at the distant past.

(cool, eh?)

....hey, I wonder if we can collect residuals each time the article is published! ....that would be excellent.

If not, we could just publish it under a new name.

"Whyfi and Whynot's Anthropology Publishing House "

...it has a good ring to it.

nofay said:

Whynot, with all due respect, you already know what to do so assume the position...

This sounds like a thinly veiled threat to me... OoooOOoo...

Wihite people "humour" ...

Yeah, 'cept I'm not wihite.

...but Whynot is as wihite as they get.

Whyfi-

I assumed Nofay was talking about "assuming the position" of Grant Writer and Researcher, so I didn't view it as a threat.

From what I've learned, it actually sounds like a cushy job.

I could just rewrite the same things over and over and sent them to people, all while claiming my research is somehow unique and worth reading, even though it has been known for eons.

I could be good at that.

Whyfi, I bet this gig will pay more than $405 a week!

What's the point of focusing on a skin color brought about by mutation? That's how successful organisms evolve. Anyone care to take a guess as to how many mutations took place before anatomically modern humans (homo sapiens sapiens) were fully established in Ethiopia? I wouldn't.

Also remember that humans didn't reach behavioral modernity until about 50k years ago. Possibly in Africa of Europe.

So now that it's clear, all humans are a result of an amount of mutations so numerous we may never know how many there were...

What is the point of focusing on one such mutation?

I don't think there is a point. I'm not in the mood for another argument about race - especially one that has absolutely nothing to do with Brooklyn. Thread closed.