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DNA Suggests Three Basic Human Groups

Posted by samzenpus on from the primary-people dept.

Death Metal writes "All of Earth's people, according to a new analysis of the genomes of 53 populations, fall into just three genetic groups. They are the products of the first and most important journey our species made — the walk out of Africa about 70,000 years ago by a small fraction of ancestral Homo sapiens."

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  1. You mean the three sons of Noah? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Three Sons of Noah are supposed to be the ancestors of us all.

    1. Re:You mean the three sons of Noah? by TheSovereign · · Score: 4, Funny

      great...and i was so sold on my atheism and not i gotta start following the rules.

    2. Re:You mean the three sons of Noah? by eln · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, I suppose the generations of inbreeding that would be required to make that work would explain why humans are so fucked up.

    3. Re:You mean the three sons of Noah? by youngone · · Score: 5, Funny

      Come on guys, this is totally wrong. There are really 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who don't.

    4. Re:You mean the three sons of Noah? by socrplayr813 · · Score: 1, Funny

      I really should mod you down for that, but I'll let you slide just one time...

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    5. Re:You mean the three sons of Noah? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Wait a minute. Did Noah have daughters too?

      Maybe, but aren't they a bit old by now?

    6. Re:You mean the three sons of Noah? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Sorry to contradict you, but there are in fact 10 types of people in the world : those who understand ternary, those who don't, and those who think its binary.

    7. Re:You mean the three sons of Noah? by E+IS+mC(Square) · · Score: 2, Funny

      Right on. You and two other too.

    8. Re:You mean the three sons of Noah? by CopaceticOpus · · Score: 3, Funny

      But that's 100 types of people! yuk yuk yuk

    9. Re:You mean the three sons of Noah? by infinite9 · · Score: 4, Funny

      My wife and I adopted three children from three different ethnic groups when they were infants (less than 6 months). They're all in the 3-4 age range now. One is a mayan indian boy, one is a typically hispanic girl, and one is a vietnamese girl. They look totally different from each other. In spite of this, people keep asking us if they're natural triplets. This of course is a great source of hilarity for my wife and me.
      Are they triplets?

      Yes... man, was that a wild summer.
      Are they all yours?

      Shhhh, she doesn't know she's not the mother!
      My favorite question is people asking whether they speak english.

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    10. Re:You mean the three sons of Noah? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      > Scientists say it's probably because of super-volcano 75,000 years ago that wiped out most of our ancestors

      This should be obvious, but the ones that got wiped out were probably NOT our ancestors!

  2. Really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Don't tell me that scientists are actually confirming what Christian theologians have been saying all along about Noah's 3 sons being the division of ethnicity's... dates notwithstanding?

  3. 3 types of people. by the-bobcat · · Score: 3, Funny

    People who do things, people who don't do a thing, and people who wait for things to be done by others.

    1. Re:3 types of people. by exley · · Score: 3, Funny

      Close... People who make things happen, people who let things happen, and people who say "What the hell just happened?"

  4. I don't think so by brunes69 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Unless one of Noah's sons was black, one was white, and one was east-asian, this is pretty much not possible.

    1. Re:I don't think so by drawfour · · Score: 2, Funny

      What about Noah's sons' wives?

    2. Re:I don't think so by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 5, Funny

      Unless one of Noah's sons was black, one was white, and one was east-asian, this is pretty much not possible.

      So you're saying we probably all come from the Village People?

    3. Re:I don't think so by Pinky's+Brain · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well a little further up I did see someone saying we came from a lot of different homos having sex.

    4. Re:I don't think so by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 3, Funny

      More important than the diverse ethnicity of Noah's sons is the still-unanswered question of how their tri-homosexual mating could have given rise to such a large population in just 6000 years.

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    5. Re:I don't think so by rhyder128k · · Score: 5, Funny

      He was the only human who ever lived a perfect life and never did anything wrong in thought and deed.

      I'm sick of every thread being taken over by an Apple fanatic. How about the Apple III? Explain that.

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  5. Re:confirmation of previous grouping by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Negroid, Mongoloid, Caucasoid.

    Or, less politely: nigras, azns, and honkies.

  6. Three groups we've all seen by Tiger4 · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Science nerds, P.E. jocks, and the Marketing schmoozers

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  7. Re:Will this be the future of racism? by Kell+Bengal · · Score: 4, Funny

    blacks vs whites vs christians vs atheists vs global warming followers vs global warming deniers vs pro-life vs pro-choice vs republicans vs democrats vs whatever

    One ring, one winner. Tonight on ESPN.

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  8. South Park did it... by d_p · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dicks, pussies and assholes

  9. Re:These are the real 3 groups by greenguy · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought the three groups were those who are good at math, and those who aren't.

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  10. i thought by weirdo557 · · Score: 0, Funny

    there were 10 types of people,

    1. Re:i thought by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 3, Funny

      There are. Those that understand trinary, those who don't, and those that mistake it for binary.

  11. This changes everything by DrGradus · · Score: 1, Funny

    I always thought there were only 10 types of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

  12. A "well duh" moment.. by nurb432 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ya i agree, Captain Obvious strikes again, and got tons of funding to do it.

    What is next, 1/2 a million to find out men don't like condoms? oh wait, that was last week..

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  13. Re:Will this be the future of racism? by jamstar7 · · Score: 2, Funny

    In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. -- Benjamin Franklin

    The good news is, they're working on death.

    The bad news is, they had to give up working on taxes to pay for it.

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  14. Racist nonsense by Baldrson · · Score: 2, Funny

    This can't be true because the president is a mulatto.

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  15. Re:Will this be the future of racism? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    One ring... to rule them all?

  16. Re:confirmation of previous grouping by arminw · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...The suprise is at the degree of genomic similarity ...

    This is no surprise for someone like me who believes that the Bible is true. These three people that restart the human race came from one set of parents and therefore should have most of their genes in common. It is only logical that the three brothers Shem. Japheth and Ham would share most of the genetic code of their father and pass it on to succeeding generations along with certain individual variations that we still see today. What is so strange about that?

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  17. Wrong by R3d+M3rcury · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, there are only two groups: Us and Them.

  18. three? by WilyCoder · · Score: 2, Funny

    windows, mac, and linux users?

  19. The only question to be answered now by Torodung · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow! Only three groups of humans. Then we have only one question left to answer:

    Which group do we put on the B-Ark?

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  20. Just three? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "All of Earth's text documents can be divided into just 26 groups, taking only their starting letter into account."