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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] Basically, what you are saying is that scientists are trying to find genetic markers that are UNIQUE to people with "white" skin complexion. The problem here is that people with "white" skin complexion VARY in so many genetic markers, that they CANNOT be lumped together as one RACE. They DONT all descend from one SPECIES of man called WHITE. WHITE skin is PURELY a function of environment and has NOTHING to do with being European. Just like most BLACK people on the planet, like the Andamanese, some South East Asians, Indians and Papuans and Australians all have DIFFERENT genetic markers. The fact that certain populations with "white" skin have common genetic or other biological markers does NOT make white skin, black skin or any other skin color the basis of some groups being from a FUNDAMENTALLY different STOCK of humans. ALL humans descend from Africans and ALL humans were ORIGINALLY black and even BLACK people are BORN white. SKIN COLOR is not RACE and RACE is not a SPECIES or indicator of some BIOLOGICAL difference between various human populations. MOST humans share the SAME BASIC biology, meaning ALL of them are the SAME SPECIES. The variations of markers from one person to the next is NOT an indication of RACE. Forensics is about TRENDS in a LOCAL population. Therefore, because LOCAL populations can be analyzed and craniofacial data correlated with phenotypical traits, cultural traits and other "superficial" characteristics, it is easier to identify skeletal remains from a FORENSIC perpective. HOWEVER, introduce a skeletal sample FROM OUTSIDE the SAMPLE set of the LOCAL population and you will SEE how LIMITED forensics can be. If I dropped off the skeleton of a Mongolian steppes person at the lab of a forensics expert, the ODDs that his RECONSTRUCTION would MATCH that of a Mongolian is extremely UNLIKELY. Why? Because the sample data that they use MAY or MAY not cause the skeleton to be MIS analyzed or MIS identified. But how often are you going to find the skeleton of a Mongolian in a field in Northern Oklahoma? MOST times localized sample sets, work just fine. But there are MANY cases where they wont. And in the case of a Mongolian, if that MOngolian was of DARKER skin complexion, then it is even LESS likely that the forensics reconstruction would match. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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