Humanity Can Be Traced to Africa
                  July 25, 2000

                       MINNEAPOLIS, July 25 (UPI) -- New research indicates 
modern man  can be traced to one small group in Africa, according to 
professor Lynn  Jorde of the Eccles Institute of Human Genetics at the 
University of Utah.

                        Jorde told a genetics conference there is much more 
genetic diversity  among Africans than Europeans or Asians, a finding that 
could overturn theories that man developed independently in several areas 
of the world.

                        "Once you've seen one European, you've pretty much 
seen them all," Jorde told the International Society for Animal Genetics 
meeting Monday.  The five day meeting runs through Wednesday.

                        Jorde said the findings indicate Europe and Asia 
were colonized by  Africans about 100,000 years ago. He said at one time the 
species was  nearly extinct, numbering fewer than 10,000.

                        Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health 
and Louisiana State University studied 23 pairs of human chromosomes as 
well as cellular DNA passed on by mothers to their children, focusing on 
areas that contain strings of chemicals that do not express themselves as 
genes and are therefore overlooked by natural selection.

                        Jorde noted that aside from skin color, there's very 
little variation among humans. By contrast, there is much more genetic
variation 
among chimpanzees.

                        "We are really a young species and there has not 
been much time for divergence to occur," Jorde said in interviews after his 
lecture. Jorde predicted that now that the human genome has 
been mapped, the pace of genetic research will quicken.

                  (C) 2000 UPI All Rights Reserved.



The colonization of the world by Europeans was not an act of
Innocence.It was not a charitable act by any fantasy of the
  Imagination or any objective  analysis.Entire cosmologies
   were dumped on the trash heap of a crusading European ideology
   that meant to plunder,not only the people´s mind,but their bodies as well

              (Reading,1950).The liberation of the minds of the African 
people
     will be a tougher battle than the eradication of settler regimes.


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