High Diabetes and Poverty Why?

[_Some Schmo]

While different looking, these archaic humans apparently could breed with modern humans based on our genetic findings, so how are they a different species?

Why Species Can't Interbreed With Each Other, Except When They Can

[_Res Ipsa]

I'm still trying to figure out what determines a caveman blood type.

It's type O blood, which is most people.

The allele for Type A human blood pre-dates the split between humans, chimps, and gorillas. That for Type B dates afterward. That for Type O is the most recent. Type O is not necessarily “caveman blood.”

[_EAllusion]

The allele for Type A human blood pre-dates the split between humans, chimps, and gorillas. That for Type B dates afterward. That for Type O is the most recent. Type O is not necessarily “caveman blood.”

I read up a little on "eat your blood type" and it gets the evolution of blood types wrong. That's unfortunate, as its entire thesis is based on the idea that you should eat the foods your blood type evolved to eat.

[_Res Ipsa]

The allele for Type A human blood pre-dates the split between humans, chimps, and gorillas. That for Type B dates afterward. That for Type O is the most recent. Type O is not necessarily “caveman blood.”

I read up a little on "eat your blood type" and it gets the evolution of blood types wrong. That's unfortunate, as its entire thesis is based on the idea that you should eat the foods your blood type evolved to eat.

My blood type evolved to eat? People buy this crap?

Don’t answer. It was rhetorical.

[_Some Schmo]

My blood type evolved to eat? People buy this crap?

I don't know... I'm pretty sure my blood type evolved to eat deep fried chicken wings with copious amounts of Louisiana Hot Sauce. It's killer on my stomach, and yet I can't stop.

Oh, and 100 Grand candy bars. And cheese.

It feels very evolved.

[_Res Ipsa]

My blood type evolved to eat? People buy this crap?

I don't know... I'm pretty sure my blood type evolved to eat deep fried chicken wings with copious amounts of Louisiana Hot Sauce. It's killer on my stomach, and yet I can't stop.

Oh, and 100 Grand candy bars. And cheese.

It feels very evolved.

Touché!

[_moksha]

Is it possible that somewhere in the human genome there exists some dystopian combination of the four nucleotides that can produce a Trump gene? Would that be a throwback to Homo Erectus? What percentage of the population located above sub-Saharan Africa possess this gene? Is it mainly dormant until surrounded by a high titer of either stupidity or magnolia blossoms?

[_subgenius]

Aussie is so proud of Colorado, and now we know why...

In one of the country's 'healthiest' states, obesity plagues black and Hispanic people
...
Colorado weighs in as two states: one dangerously heavy and one fit and trim.
There are the mostly well-educated, affluent whites, many of whom were drawn to Colorado by high-paying tech jobs and myriad outdoor opportunities.
...
The overarching statistics mask underlying problems, making it hard to attract attention and resources for those in need

[_Goya]

I suspect there were archaic human species in Africa that we haven't found in the fossil record that interbred with anatomically modern humans as well. While different looking, these archaic humans apparently could breed with modern humans based on our genetic findings, so how are they a different species?

Ajax, I admit that sometimes I wonder if you have ever read an entire book from cover to cover. How did you pass enough college biology to get to be an optometrist?

[_ajax18]

I suspect there were archaic human species in Africa that we haven't found in the fossil record that interbred with anatomically modern humans as well. While different looking, these archaic humans apparently could breed with modern humans based on our genetic findings, so how are they a different species?

Ajax, I admit that sometimes I wonder if you have ever read an entire book from cover to cover. How did you pass enough college biology to get to be an optometrist?

Did this comment make you think this? What exactly sounded so uneducated to you?

It was possible to map the neanderthal and denisovan genome because they were preserved in the cold. Homo erectus has not been mapped because the DNA degraded in the Afican heat rather quickly.