This paper briefly discusses the history and the racist agenda of some scientists in the past that tried to find differences in races by a blood test. Even used this biased data to go so far as to say that on the human evolutionary tree Europeans are distinct from the Afro-Asian branch. This launched other scientists to search for the truth about their race in relation to their molecular data using mtDNA. This research has found that there is more variation in the African samples than other populations. They bring up a good point near the end because scientists are trying to find the origin of species and a dispersal pattern. While people widely accept that animals such as rats originate in the same place and disperse from there but the same is not widely accepted for humans. But now we have all this molecular data that points to our African origin and how we are related but people still see people as separate "races" even though it is a cultural construct.
(I felt that this paper was a really good summary of the papers we read this week)
Potluck Post 2/18/2020
Annelise Beer
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