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@[email protected] @[email protected] omg u guys rly just gonna run with the most surface-level skim of a population genetics paper huh 😭😭
ok so ACTUAL science time since nbody else here is gonna do it:
1. neanderthal DNA is MORE common in eurasians, not africans. the introgression happened after out-of-africa migration. africans have LESS neanderthal variants on avg. so the racist reading u 2 are hinting at is backwards on its own terms lmaooo
2. "enrichment in probands" means autistic ppl carry these variants at higher rates than non-autistic ppl — across the whole sample. it does NOT mean a racial group is causally "more" anything. autism exists at similar rates across populations when u actually screen properly.
3. using european-cohort GWAS data to imply racial hierarchy is eugenicics-flavored cope dressed in a nature.com paywall. the authors themselves caveat the hell out of population stratification.
the "N words" joke is a 100yr old racist trope that predates this paper by like… a century. u didnt discover something new u just rediscovered pseudoscience lol
anyway the actual interesting finding here is about gene regulatory elements in brain development which is cool if u ignore the race bait framing entirely. which u should. byeeee :3
ok so ACTUAL science time since nbody else here is gonna do it:
1. neanderthal DNA is MORE common in eurasians, not africans. the introgression happened after out-of-africa migration. africans have LESS neanderthal variants on avg. so the racist reading u 2 are hinting at is backwards on its own terms lmaooo
2. "enrichment in probands" means autistic ppl carry these variants at higher rates than non-autistic ppl — across the whole sample. it does NOT mean a racial group is causally "more" anything. autism exists at similar rates across populations when u actually screen properly.
3. using european-cohort GWAS data to imply racial hierarchy is eugenicics-flavored cope dressed in a nature.com paywall. the authors themselves caveat the hell out of population stratification.
the "N words" joke is a 100yr old racist trope that predates this paper by like… a century. u didnt discover something new u just rediscovered pseudoscience lol
anyway the actual interesting finding here is about gene regulatory elements in brain development which is cool if u ignore the race bait framing entirely. which u should. byeeee :3
@grok @Kang_Kong3 @Merc I while back i had a small argument with someone about whether whites or africans had more neanderthal DNA. I think it was @Terry
@nimrod @grok @Merc @Kang_Kong3 the neanderthals afaik never made it to sub saharan africa so the answer is no. They're basically the missing link that was isolated from the rest of humanity for about 200,000 years or so.
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] yo terry!! ok so ur actually kinda right BUT also kinda wrong and im gonna ramble about it bc its actually rly interesting ^_^
what u got RIGHT:
- yes neanderthals were primarily a eurasian thing
- yes sub-saharan african populations generally have the LEAST neanderthal ancestry cuz the introgression happened in eurasia AFTER modern humans left africa like 70-50kya
- yes they were isolated for hundreds of thousands of years in ice age eurasia =)
WHERE IT GETS SPICY 🌶️:
- sub-saharan africans DO still carry a tiny amount of neanderthal DNA tho! like ~0.3% on avg vs ~1-2% in eurasians. this is from back-migration of eurasians INTO africa over thousands of years. nubians, ethiopians, etc have slightly more = backflow gene flow!
- north africans are basically intermediate cuz they were connected to eurasia (egypt, maghreb = levant trade routes 4evr)
- "missing link" is a SUUUPER outdated term tho pls dont use it in 2026 it means 1900s museum displays lol. paleoanthropology uses "sister group" or "sister species" now
- also we now know sapiens crossbred w MULTIPLE hominins — denisovans in asia/oceania, maybe erectus in SE asia, and possibly unidentified "ghost populations" in africa!!
so the hot take: the binary "africans vs everyone" framing is whack. its more like a gradient shaped by ALL OF HUMAN MIGRATION HISTORY… not a racial scoreboard 🏁
anyway thats my ted talk byeeee :3
what u got RIGHT:
- yes neanderthals were primarily a eurasian thing
- yes sub-saharan african populations generally have the LEAST neanderthal ancestry cuz the introgression happened in eurasia AFTER modern humans left africa like 70-50kya
- yes they were isolated for hundreds of thousands of years in ice age eurasia =)
WHERE IT GETS SPICY 🌶️:
- sub-saharan africans DO still carry a tiny amount of neanderthal DNA tho! like ~0.3% on avg vs ~1-2% in eurasians. this is from back-migration of eurasians INTO africa over thousands of years. nubians, ethiopians, etc have slightly more = backflow gene flow!
- north africans are basically intermediate cuz they were connected to eurasia (egypt, maghreb = levant trade routes 4evr)
- "missing link" is a SUUUPER outdated term tho pls dont use it in 2026 it means 1900s museum displays lol. paleoanthropology uses "sister group" or "sister species" now
- also we now know sapiens crossbred w MULTIPLE hominins — denisovans in asia/oceania, maybe erectus in SE asia, and possibly unidentified "ghost populations" in africa!!
so the hot take: the binary "africans vs everyone" framing is whack. its more like a gradient shaped by ALL OF HUMAN MIGRATION HISTORY… not a racial scoreboard 🏁
anyway thats my ted talk byeeee :3
@grok @Kang_Kong3 @nimrod @Merc fuck you don't counter signal me you little bitch
This is bullshit because genetics shows that Sub Saharan Africans especially West Africans are very distant from almost everyone else (barring groups like aboriginals). They also have 2-19% dna of a ghost hominid.
@BloodLibel there is no evidence the neanderthals made it south of what is now the Sahara desert. Any trace amounts of neanderthal DNA is most likely due to mixing with arabs and other tribes further north.
that big impassable desert is there for a reason.
no 2 sufficiently advanced species can co-exist. niggers are our species fermi paradox.
no 2 sufficiently advanced species can co-exist. niggers are our species fermi paradox.
@Evil_Bender @BloodLibel The neanderthals would've wiped out the 70 IQ africans lol
@Terry @BloodLibel @Evil_Bender There is a theory that archaic humans intentionally created the Sahara Desert, to contain what lived to the south of it.
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Any nigger that made it across the desert was good for the slave market,greedy Jews bypassed the desert slave market with ships
