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[QUOTE]Originally posted by rasol: [QB] [QUOTE]They do not know why some genes are copied and some are not. One gene, called CCL3L1, which is copied many times in people of African descent, appears to confer resistance to HIV.[/QUOTE]Yet millions of Africans have died of HIV. Genes confering resistence to disease are likely and adaptive response. Where there is little HIV, in Africa, this gene would confer no advantage and so would not be selected for. This doesn't prove race, or even that Africans are statisically less likely to get HIV. It only proves tha HIV or similar disease has killed enough people in Africa to cause and adaptive response. It's rather pathetic that you highlight this passage because you think it somehow 'proves' race. [QUOTE]Another gene involved in making a blood protein is copied many times in people from south-east Asia and seems to help against malaria. [/QUOTE]Yet millions of South-East Asians die of Malaria. Moreover the precense of this adaptive response distinguishes South-East Asians from NorthEast Asians or North American Indians, for the simple reason that there is little to no Malaria in the later two regions - yet in Doctor Winters race typology - *all these people belong to the 'same [mongoloid] race'.* In fact, the precense of different gene frequencies in South-East Asians and North East Asians contradicts your simplistic notion that these people can be placed in *the same race*. It's also important for medicine as it means you can't put all Asians in the same medical catagory and make assumptions about them. So desparate is Winters for evidence, that he does not even notice this contradiction in *his* race thesis. Now that we have made him aware of it, would Winters care to explain it? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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