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. Welcome to the Edo Community in Cyberspace. "And tho' we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are; one equal temper of heroic hearts, made weak by time and fate, but strong in will, to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." - Ulysses ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, visit: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/aam.html AAM Website: http://www.danenet.wicip.org/aam ----------------------------------------------------------------------------