JAM
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Joined: July 2007
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| Quote (bFast @ Mar. 09 2008,23:59) | JAM, "That's funny that you should put it in such disturbingly quasi-racist terms"
I didn't mean slight. |
It sure seemed that way. You're ignoring my point, which is highly relevant to your question.
| Quote | | I only was reaching for a population that was physically the farthest away from me. I am likely to mate within my community, not a distant community. |
Does your wife know about this? Seriously, do you not have any African-Americans in your community?
| Quote | | The calculations need only reference the assessible genepool, not the total conceivable genepool. |
Why? You're not making any sense.
| Quote | | I am still not finding an answer to my question, however. |
That's because, as Bob and I have noted, you are mangling the relevant terminology. Hint: geneticists don't use the term "genepool."
| Quote | | How many alleles are likely to exist within the human population in the average community. |
In Africa, or in North Dakota? I can't see how there wouldn't be "average communities" in both places. Or are you hinting at racism again?
| Quote | | I can accept that many alleles are "not selectable", "fully neutral". |
Those are generally described as polymorphisms. There are tens or hundreds of thousands.
| Quote | | Fine enough, how many "selectable" alleles are there in a typical community of humans? |
I don't know, but I know that each of us is heterozygous for 5-10 recessive lethal alleles. Does that help?
The other place to look is in the huge study of Icelandic folks, which would only provide a lower bound, as they are very inbred.
| Quote | | If I read this correctly, there's LOTS of alleles!! |
Is that a problem?
Google's not going to help if you use the wrong terminology.
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