https://www.reddit.com/r/phenotypes/comments/13zdl40/do_you_think_australian_aboriginals_and_south/

  • buh [she/her]
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    1 day ago

    Modern racists don’t even know how to use calipers, all they know is us-foreign-policy, sad

  • gay_king_prince_charles [she/her, he/him]
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    1 day ago

    THEY ARE MEMBERS OF HAPLOGROUP B, A SUBSERVIENT RACE WHO SUFFERS FROM IDIOTIC COMMUNISM, WHICH IS A FATAL FAMILIAL INSOMNIA CAUSED BY PRIONS FOUND IN THEIR BELOVED POTATOES. measurehead

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      1 day ago

      And then fail at the most basic aspect of the "scientific" part.

      Show

      Bruh.

      We share like 99% of our DNA with fuckin chimps. All humans share nearly 100% of the same genetic makeup that's how fuckin species work.

      • PointAndClique [they/them]
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        1 day ago

        phrenology subreddit

        u/ladyskullz

        No surprises their un is probably transphibii af too

      • RNAi [he/him]
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        1 day ago

        Nucleic acid here: That number, if taken from a real scientific article, isn't about the whole genome, but most likely about alleles present in both populations.

        That said, I'm 100% sure this person isn't a noob philogeography/population-genetics enthusiast but rather the average kind of person eager to ignorantly talk about human phenotypes in reddit hitler-detector hitler-detector hitler-detector

        EDIT: Holy shit the r*dditor is citing textually from the Nature news article; I understand science divulgation has to "simplify" things, but this is astonishingly stupid way of trying to explain a real scientific article, I can't believe this comes from Nature

        EDIT 2:

        The final dataset comprised 344 individuals

        This is 2013, fuck off with those numbers

      • Hexamerous [none/use name]
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        1 day ago

        This shit is also having a resurgence thanks to these "DNA ancestry" websites, like 88andMe.

      • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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        1 day ago

        Humans share 41% of their DNA with bananas, this loser apparently thinks south Indians and indigenous Australians are more closely related to bananas than each other.

      • Hexboare [they/them]
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        1 day ago

        Our results show that Indigenous Australians are not a single homogeneous genetic group and their genetic relationship with the peoples of New Guinea is not uniform.

        These patterns imply that the full breadth of Indigenous Australian genetic diversity remains uncharacterized, potentially limiting genomic medicine and equitable healthcare for Indigenous Australians.

        From research last year, for context.

    • EstraDoll [she/her]
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      1 day ago

      people have been trying to prove their racism is scientific for hundreds of years and completely failed but i'm sure the next big revelation in caliperology will prove the skull measurement weirdos right in the next decade or so 🙄

      • Hexamerous [none/use name]
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        1 day ago

        High probability that some tech-freak is already training a Hitler AI on facial recognition data and reddit comments.

  • kristina [she/her]
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    1 day ago

    its my understanding that the original aboriginal population is ancient and didnt have much admixture from other groups... in fact dravidians share more genetic and linguistic ties with a european than a pre-european contact aboriginal australian would with dravidians

    almost all 'racial' adaptations e.g. light skin are all relatively recent too, when the aboriginal australians split off from the mainland pretty much everyone in the world would have been very dark skinned at the time. all those humans back then likely would have looked quite different from ethnicities today

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      1 day ago

      Yeah I mention this to people all the time. I had to get my genome sequenced once for something health related and as a fun little thing they added that I'm probably related to the ancient human known as the Cheddar Man. He was a particularly well preserved skeleton found in Somerset, England dating from around 10,000 years ago. The DNA found on him suggests he had very dark skin and hair, blue/green eyes, and lactose intolerance, which would have been very standard for western Europeans back then.

      Native Australians date from even further back. People got there around 50,000 years ago and ended up nearly isolated for millenia.

      White people just see brown skin and immediately start clumping people together

  • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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    1 day ago

    We should post pictures of ugly ass crackers next to conventionally attractive non-white people and ask if people think they’re the same species

      • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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        1 day ago

        I love the idea of one guy on the subreddit who is genuinely interested in human genealogy for non-racist reasons and who doesn't understand why everyone around him keeps talking about the master race

      • vovchik_ilich [he/him]
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        1 day ago

        A YT channel of a Spanish guy from deep rural Navarra living in China making blogs (Jabiertzo), shows chinese kids around him sometimes mocking his big nose, which I always found kinda funny

  • Owl [he/him]
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    1 day ago

    Does anybody think these round faced people look like these tall faced people? What?