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Pressie
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Message 44 of 70 (799198)
02-08-2017 3:33 AM
Reply to: Message 40 by Diomedes
02-07-2017 3:10 PM


Diomedes writes:
Exactly true. For people like myself who are of Greek heritage, we are often referred to as 'olive skinned'.
Australia (a country of which I'm a proud citizen), used to have the White Australia Policy. In the early days only people from Northern Europe were classified as white and could move there.
After WW2, they realised that they really, really needed more people and began to allow immigration from Southern Europe, too. They called and still call those guys Wogs in private (Greeks, Italians, etc.). Off-white, I guess.
It was only from around 1967 that they started allowing people from other continents in. The guys who fought that change in policy presented the argument against it as: Two Wongs don't make a White.
Good old days. Luckily before my time...

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Pressie
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Message 53 of 70 (799310)
02-09-2017 4:20 AM
Reply to: Message 46 by CRR
02-08-2017 6:31 AM


CRR writes:
There really is only one skin colour; brown. This is caused by melanin and depending on how much we have we can vary from white (little melanin) to black (lots of melanin). This is controlled by several genes giving about 64 shades of brown.
This gets me wondering. Do people with darker skin colour have more or less genetic information than people with lighter skin colour?

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Pressie
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Message 58 of 70 (801076)
03-03-2017 6:53 AM
Reply to: Message 57 by CRR
03-03-2017 4:57 AM


Re: Step 2
So, CRR, you still couldn't provide us on the quanties on how to decide whether lighter skinned humans have more or less genetic information than darker skinned people.
Edited by Pressie, : No reason given.

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Pressie
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Message 61 of 70 (801084)
03-03-2017 7:05 AM
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03-03-2017 4:56 AM


CRR writes:
Generally the same. They have the same number of functional genes. However I have read that red hair is due to a defect in the MC1R gene so there would be a loss of genetic information in that case.
So, you still can't quantify genetic information.

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Pressie
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Message 63 of 70 (801088)
03-03-2017 7:26 AM
Reply to: Message 62 by AZPaul3
03-03-2017 7:13 AM


Re: Step 2
So, CRR didn't tell the truth? That doesn't shock me.

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