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Originally Posted by Guest
No, we cannot agree that Blacks are "a different species." I accept the assertion of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, to wit:
"The billions of human beings living today all belong to one species: Homo sapiens.
As in all species, there is variation among individual human beings, from size and shape to skin tone and eye color. But we are much more alike than we are different. We are, in fact, remarkably similar. The DNA of all human beings living today is 99.9% alike.
We all have roots extending back 200,000 years to the emergence of the first modern humans in Africa, and back more than 6 million years to the evolution of the earliest human species in Africa. This amazing story of adaptation and survival is written in the language of our genes, in every cell of our bodies—as well as in the fossil and behavioral evidence.
This ancient heritage is yours."
The argument about whether genetics or environment (nature or nurture) is determinative in the development and success of individuals (or even races) has been going on for centuries. We will not settle it here.
With regard to the massive influx of Hispanics from Mexico, Central, and South America, this was clearly part of Obama's plan to "fundamentally transform America." I ascribe the same motives to his move to raise the Muslim population of the country. Early indications are that Muslims are not predisposed to assimilate.
Having grown up in San Antonio, Texas, with a highly integrated White/Mexican population, and living most of my adult life in Tampa, Florida, where a tri-lingual (English/Spanish/Italian) language newspaper dominated the political reporting for decades, and where most Hispanics are from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Spain, I am very comfortable with Hispanic influences in the culture. But, I resent the Obama effort because his method was to encourage lawlessness by illegal immigration.
Carl in Tampa
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"The DNA of all human beings living today is 99.9% alike."
This is NOT true...that is the OLD thinking. The politically correct thinking. "Humans" came out of Africa, mated with other "humans" who had left earlier, and became different species. Europeans mated mostly with Neanderthals and Asians with Denisovan too.
"The recent sequencing of the Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes shows possible admixture. A draft sequence publication by the Neanderthal Genome Project in May 2010 indicates some form of
hybridization between archaic humans and modern humans took place after modern humans emerged from Africa. An estimated 1 to 4 percent of the DNA in Europeans and Asians (i.e. French, Chinese and Papua probands) is non-modern, and shared with ancient Neanderthal DNA and
not with Sub-Saharan Africans (i.e., Yoruba and San probands),[41] while Melanesians have an additional 1–6% of Denisovan origin.[42]"
"Studies published in March 2016 suggest that modern humans bred with hominins, including Denisovans and Neanderthals, on multiple occasions.[46]"
They ARE a different species.