Are other races more evolved than Blacks?

[Foxaèr]

I was asking you to explain why Africans don't have any of that Neanderthal DNA.

They do, though.

Africans carry surprising amount of Neanderthal DNA
https://www.science.org/content/article/...r%20genome.

[popeyespappy]

Also, Africans do have about 0.3% Neanderthal DNA in them. 

https://www.science.org/content/article/...0%20years.

The researchers found that African individuals on average had significantly more Neanderthal DNA than previously thought—about 17 megabases (Mb) worth, or 0.3% of their genome. They also found signs that a handful of Neanderthal genes may have been selected for after they entered Africans' genomes, including genes that boost immune function and protect against ultraviolet radiation.

Not surprising. If genes can flow from Africa to Europe they can flow back to Africa from Europe.

[Nay_Sayer]

Wah, wah, wah....the staff won't close this thread.  Instead of letting it die a natural death, I'm gonna post in it every few days.  The logic of Huggy.

You deserve a raise for using huggy and the word logic in the same sentence.

[LadyForCamus]

Wah, wah, wah....the staff won't close this thread.  Instead of letting it die a natural death, I'm gonna post in it every few days.  The logic of Huggy.

And here I was, under the impression that he was “moving on” to AD. Weird. 😏

[LadyForCamus]

Thread still unlocked? interesting...

Still posting here? Interesting. 🤔

[Anomalocaris]

It isn't hard. The vast majority of the DNA inherited from Neanderthals is the same as what we already have.

I'm going to make a couple assumptions here for the sake of making the math easy.

Assumption 1: Humans (and Neanderthals) split from chimps about 5 million years ago.
Assumption 2: Humans and Neanderthals split 500 thousand years ago.

So if the difference between humans and chimps is 1.2% the difference between humans and Neanderthals is about 1/10th of that or 0.12%. So if a human inherited 2% of their DNA from Neanderthals they got about 128 million pairs, but only about 153,600 of those pairs are different from human DNA. That's .002% of your 6.4 billion base pairs only accounting for about 1/5th of the difference between the populations discussed in my previous post.

I was asking you to explain why Africans don't have any of that Neanderthal DNA.

Africans living north, east and west of Sahara do have Neanderthal genes in amounts comparable to much of Euroasia population.     Africans living to the south of Sahara don’t.

The reason is simply.   For close to a hundred thousand years prior to the modern era, modern human migration and genes primarily flowed from south of Sahara northwards.      So Neanderthal genes, which l previously had primarily been found in Eurasia, were comparatively impeded from counterflowing south into subsahara Africa.

After the beginning of modern era and its globalization, undoubtedly Neanderthal genes carried by Euroasians have been flowing back into sub Saharan Africa at much greater rate than modern human genes have been flowing out of sub Saharan Africa historically.     But there have not been comparable amount of time, a few hundred years vs tens of thousands,  for the results of the counterflow to disseminate thoroughly into the sub Saharan population.

[Fake Messiah]

What does "more evolved" even mean?

[Anomalocaris]

What does "more evolved" even mean?

Probably mean needed more improvement because started out suckier.

[Fake Messiah]

"Suckier?" As to what exactly!

The other thing is that people who stayed in Africa did not stop evolving.

It is maybe questionable if the first people were Bantu-black because while it was Africa, the climate there was much milder than it is today. Like the Subsaharan region was lush and green. And there are numerous shades of people living in Africa.

Even when humans were more in their ape-ish form, like Australopithecus, they could have been white-ish like chimpanzees or blackish like gorillas.

[Anomalocaris]

Suckier as in being farther from the state they are in here and today, hence requiring more “evolvedness” to get from there to here.


So if you are more evolved then me, that doesn’t mean you are better than me.  It means your ancesters are worse than mine.