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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Who View Post
    Depends on the genetics of both parents. What you see isn't always what you get. It depends on whether recessives combine with dominant genes or recessive genes. People with dark skin carry the genes for all skin colors. Darker tends to be dominant, but two recessives can combine to create a white looking child. People with light skin can carry dark recessives and the combination can create a dark-skinned child. Something in between is most common, but not the only possibility.
    And yet, despite your pontifications, here we are.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Safety View Post
    fyi.
    Some people think that genetics work differently for people than for animals. Not.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterVeritis View Post
    And yet, despite your pontifications, here we are.
    Thousands of years later. Isolated populations of people replicate what happens when breeders isolate a recessive gene in animals and keep mating those recessives, one to another. Otherwise, there would be no pygmy tribes of people or phenotypes associated with various ethnicities.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Who View Post
    Thousands of years later. Isolated populations of people replicate what happens when breeders isolate a recessive gene in animals and keep mating those recessives, one to another. Otherwise, there would be no pygmy tribes of people or phenotypes associated with various ethnicities.
    Other way around, breeders try to replicate what nature does, and they produce the oddest, freakish animals that could never survive without human help.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Who View Post
    Some people think that genetics work differently for people than for animals. Not.
    Apparently my point went way over your designing head.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    Which is the utterly implausible part of your theory.
    Why is that implausible? Migrant meets trader who tells him/her that there is a white tribe on the other side of that mountain. That tribe meets too much resistance and moves further north, eventually moving into the Netherlands. We are talking about thousands of years here. If white can discriminate against black, the opposite can also be true.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Other way around, breeders try to replicate what nature does, and they produce the oddest, freakish animals that could never survive without human help.
    What they produce is unimportant. They create animals that reproduce the same recessives fairly consistently. The laws of genetics are the same for people as for animals.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Who View Post
    What they produce is unimportant. They create animals that reproduce the same recessives fairly consistently. The laws of genetics are the same for people as for animals.
    But evolution is not.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    But evolution is not.
    I'm not talking about evolution. This isn't evolution. It is minor mutations and selective breeding. Are white tigers a matter of evolution?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Who View Post
    I'm not talking about evolution. This isn't evolution. It is minor mutations and selective breeding. Are white tigers a matter of evolution?
    Actually, you are, that's the topic.
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