You cannot look at a person's genes and say with any accuracy whether they are from one racial group or another.
From Craig Venter
We all evolved out of the same three or four groups in Africa, as black Africans.
There is a long history of how DNA sequencing can bring certainty to people's lives.
Mitochondrial DNA is in higher concentration, lasts longer, and can be extracted from bones.
Race has no genetic or scientific basis.
Genes can't possibly explain all of what makes us what we are.
I don't see any absolute biological limit on human age.
A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease.
People think genes are an absolute cause of traits. But the notion that the genome is the blueprint for humanity is a very bad metaphor. If you think we're hard-wired and deterministic, there should indeed be a lot more genes.
In the past, geneticists have looked at so-called disease genes, but a lot of people have changes in their genes and don't get these diseases. There have to be other parts of physiology and genetics that compensate.
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