In a message dated 5/25/2003 7:30:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I don't think so. I've watched Star Trek many times, as well as a bunch of > other future documentaries. They show that races exist in > the same way in > the future as they do now. :-) That is because they are really stories about us not our ancestors. Understand that what we think of as dramatic differences are less than skin deep. Slight variations in some gene frequencies. Let me give you an example. Jews have been somewhat isolated as a breeding population for about 2 milenia. For the most part jews have bread with jews because a) there has been a very strong prohibition against marrying outside of the religion. Christians on the other hand faced dire consequences if they became involved with jews. So the amount of interbreeding was small and yet it was large enough so that there are no "racial" genetic differences between jews and other europeans (a little shtupping apparently goes a long way). Sure there are genetic diseases that are more common amoung jews but is simply an effect of a recent mutation in a family that just happened to be jewish. Given the amount of inter-racial mating that is going on races are doomed. We are really one population after all.
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