Re: [tied] The indo european "race"

From: slawomirmiroslawski
Message: 24998
Date: 2003-08-07

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
> 06-08-03 07:08, Exu Yangi wrote:
>
> > Cladistics aside, you are absolutely right. However, you are far
more likely
> > to get a set of genes to make you 2+ meters tall if you are
watusi than if
> > you are chinese.
> >
> > All I was saying was that there ARE conspicuous regional
difference, aka
> > "race".
>
> OK, but what's that to do with cladistics? You've mentioned it
before,
> but I don't understand your point. Cladistics is the art of
grouping
> taxa on the basis of synapomorphies (shared innovations inherited
from a
> common ancestor). In evolutionary biology, the method works rather
well
> in establishing phylogenies above the level of the species, but not
> within species, where in the absence of reproductive barriers
> reticulation does away with family-tree structures.

Chomosome Y and mitochondrial follow tree structure.
So your belive is not fuly true.

>
> Piotr