Re: [tied] The indo european "race"

--- 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