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Friday, May 09, 2008


Quote from my father after I gave him a puzzled look on the start of his lecture about how we are all descended from 150 original people*:

"Is that a smirk or a sneer?" Why are those my only choices?

*Wikipedia: "Some scientists believe that only a few people left Africa in a single migration that went on to populate the rest of the world. It has been estimated that from a population of 2,000 to 5,000 in Africa, only a small group of possibly 150 people crossed the Red Sea. This is because, of all the lineages present in Africa, only the daughters of one lineage, L3, are found outside Africa. Had there been several migrations one would expect more than one African lineage outside Africa. L3's daughters, the M and N lineages, are found in very low frequencies in Africa and appear to be recent arrivals. A possible explanation is that these mutations occurred in East Africa shortly before the exodus and by the founder effect became the dominant haplogroups after the exodus from Africa. Alternatively, the mutations may have arisen shortly after the exodus from Africa."

Friday, May 02, 2008


OUTMODED CONVENTIONS



You sound like a broken record.



telephones:

there are no longer phone booths



you no longer dial the telephone