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echo: philos
to: ANDREW CUMMINS
from: KEITH KNAPP
date: 1998-04-12 20:35:00
subject: `Existence Exists`

AC> KK> Now now, you shouldn't be so annoying!  So what if DNA research shows
AC> KK> that the first anatomically modern humans were black.  And so what
AC> KK> if this is confirmed by the fact that _all_ modern humans have a
AC> KK> gene that codes for black skin, and light-skinned humans have a
AC> KK> secondary gene that slows down the first one.
AC>Nonsense.  There are only a few genes that code for skin color
AC>and there are millions of whites without a gene for black skin.
And your evidence is.
AC>BTW, do you think it would be more accurate for depictions
AC>of ape-men to have black skin?
If they lived in equatorial regions where intense UV light
would select against them.  If their descendants later migrated
to places like Scandinavia, dark skin would work against them,
because light on skin creates vitamin D, which prevents against
rickets.
AC>Shame on me!  My offer of annoyance is politically incorrect
AC>unlike your offer of annoyance.  Hmmm, I only ask a question,
AC>you make a dubious assertion, yet clearly I'm the bad guy.  So
AC>much for fairness.
Would you mind pointing out where in the above paragraph I can find
a scientific argument.
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