[meteorite-list] Of Mice and Men

From: Bob Martino <martino.6_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:22:36 2004
Message-ID: <000a01c32fc9$0e03ae00$0200000a_at_TheMonolith>

Sterling,

I think that the more important question, from the point of view of the
mice, is do they all look alike to EACH OTHER?

(This would be an ideal spot to insert a joke about selecting mice from
eastern Kentucky or Arkansas, but I'm not going to.)

(This might also be a good spot to tell my joke about the two Irish mice who
walk into a bar discussing their meteorite collections... as soon as I can
make it up.)

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> Hi,
>
> On average, if you pick any two human individuals, each from
> any random location on the planet, and test the degree of
> relatedness of their DNA, you will find they're about 13th
> cousins. That's with widely assorted human specimens, like
> comparing an Australian aboriginal with an Irish cop from the
> Bronx...
> On the other hand, if you select individuals from a
> restricted area with a fairly homogeneous population, like
> Ireland, you will average a relationship ranging from 5th to 7th
> cousins.
> (This would be ideal spot to insert a joke about selecting
> individuals from eastern Kentucky or Arkansas, but I'm not going
> to do it. Huh-uh, not me.)
> What this implies is that modern humans are a recent and
> hence very uniform species. Two mice picked at random would show
> 10 to 12 times the genetic divergence of randomly selected human
> beings.
> And still, you know, all those mice look alike to me....
Received on Tue 10 Jun 2003 11:25:00 PM PDT