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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 9 Feb 2006.
Re: [PIC] Chocolate

Re: [PIC] Chocolate

_.-In alt.ascii-art, Phydeaux wrote the following -._
> Faux_Pseudo wrote:
><snip>
>> But I didn't have much time before I sit down for some TV watching.
>> Going to watch http://www.pbs.org/aboutpbs/news/20050713_africanamericanlives.html
>
> I happened to see some of that show tonight... interesting, but raised a question.  The 
> DNA samples of living people they found, could they really be said to be equally 
> representative of both Europe and Africa (and other continents, for that matter)?  I mean, 
> how many DNA specialists are there per capita in the different areas?  Even if they got 
> the samples and analysed them later, how sure are they that a representative sample was 
> taken?  I suspect the slave trading areas are more developed than other areas, but there 
> is still geographically separated places to think about.

They mentioned that over 10,000 DNA samples had been collected in
Africa from some prior project.  Sounds like a pretty good sampling to
me.

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