East Africans may have up to a quarter of Asian and European DNA, says report

[Lancer]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien ... 86826.html

So can I officially put down multi-racial on the next census?

[nord]

Somalis average around 40% Caucasian on Eurogenes - Habeshas even higher. This is all ancient admix though. Also East africa is full of Bantus so i don't know who this is aimed at, but 25% is definitely low for Horners.

[SteadyState]

Nonsense. Isaaq, Darods, Tigre, and Amhara may be of foreign descent, but I have no foreign blood in me. I'm absolutely 100% native black African. The field of anthropology is not even a science, since unlike the hard sciences there are no fundamental principles from which all other facts in the field follow. I'll be damned if I take facts about my heritage from a bunch of overpaid and useless Eurocentric academics who couldn't survive in the real world outside of the gravy train that is known as academia.

[Itrah]

Nonsense. Isaaq, Darods, Tigre, and Habesha may be of foreign descent, but I have no foreign blood in me. I'm absolutely 100% native black African. The field of anthropology is not even a science, since unlike the hard sciences there are no fundamental principles from which all other facts in the field follow. I'll be damned if I take facts about my heritage from a bunch of overpaid and useless Eurocentric academics who couldn't survive in the real world outside of the gravy train that is known as academia.

Sad day for you, according to the study it extends deep into East Africa. Even the Maasai have a lot of it.

[SteadyState]

Sad day for you, according to the study it extends deep into East Africa. Even the Maasai have a lot of it.

A little skepticism can you take you far. Remember this? A lot of "experts" jumped on that as relativity being wrong and started proposing their own ludicrous theories to explain the result. I can cite you plenty of other less known cases wherein controversial results were published and endorsed by quite a number of experts only to be discredited later, and this is within the hard sciences. Anthropology isn't even considered a science. But, why don't we actually see how the academic community reacts and whether this information will be eventually be put into the textbooks or be the cause of a lot of people in taking major hits to their credibility?

A scientific mind is one that is always highly skeptical of all new information that challenges the status quo. Then again, you seem to be fond of lapping up anything that cadaan man cooks up and feeds you without so much as questioning it. If another one of these "scientists" finds "evidence" that horners originated in the Andromeda galaxy, you'd be on here propagating that junk and calling it "science". You have a massive inferiority complex, sxb.

[Itrah]

A little skepticism can you take you far. Remember this? A lot of "experts" jumped on that as relativity being wrong and started proposing their own ludicrous theories to explain the result. I can cite you plenty of other less known cases wherein controversial results were published and endorsed by quite a number of experts only to be discredited later, and this is within the hard sciences. Anthropology isn't even considered a science. But, why don't we actually see how the academic community reacts and whether this information will be eventually be put into the textbooks or be the cause of a lot of people in taking major hits to their credibility?

A scientific mind is one that is always highly skeptical of all new information that challenges the status quo. Then again, you seem to be fond of lapping up anything that cadaan man cooks up and feeds you without so much as questioning it. If another one of these "scientists" finds "evidence" that horners originated in the Andromeda galaxy, you'd be on here propagating that junk and calling it "science". You have a massive inferiority complex, sxb.

It was published in The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a reputable journal.

The scientists in question are PhD holders from the University of Cambridge (a top university).

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early ... 9.abstract

But yeah, some idiot troll (SteadyState) knows more than them. Totally.

[SteadyState]

It was published in The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a reputable journal.

The scientists in quistion are PhD holders from University of Cambridge (top university).

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early ... 9.abstract

But yeah, some idiot troll (SteadyState) knows more than them. Totally.

Appeal to authority fallacies are not impressive to people who actually know science and are familiar with the scientific method. You want to see a number of rather recent controversies in science made by even bigger names in their respective fields? That CERN paper had many prominent high energy physicists and a few theorists at Harvad, MIT, Oxford, and Imperial college endorsing it.

Remember the supposed gravitational waves that were found last year? You had some of the big names in cosmology endorsing the results and accepting them, such as Alan Guth, and many of the authors are some of the most well known scientists in the field. What happened? Well, it turns out they didn't actually find gravitational waves but rather some pretty exciting galactic dust. There are many other recent controversies in science like this that can easily be cited where top experts in their field were clearly duped when they should have known better.

Scientists are not infallible people, they are subject to biases and credulity of varying degrees like all people. Many are crackpots. Some don't even understand entirely the theories they are trying to disprove, like a few I can think of off the top of my head that work at "prestigious" places like NASA.

As I said before, a healthy dose of skepticism can take you a long way in life. It's just too bad that you're inferiority complex will always have you believing everything an cadaan man with a PhD says about you and your heritage.

[Togdeer]

who cares.
All I know is I'm Somali, part of the greater cushtic group.
And I always tick black other as my ethnicity,
I don't class my self as black african.

[BeyondQabil]

What Nonsense; the so called "experts" are just building on "facts" that were "discovered" by other equally clueless "Scientists"

[gegiroor]

Why do people occupy themselves with this nonsense is beyond my imagination? Because of this ever-changing race based DNA, I would never believe any thing that is based on DNA. It is inconclusive.