[Sca-cooks] odd
David Friedman
ddfr at daviddfriedman.com
Tue Feb 22 09:21:13 PST 2011
>And by the way, Hindu Indians are also Caucasians, even though some
>have darker skin than Africans.
>
>Huette
That's a little tricky. The very dark skinned Indians are mostly
Dravidian, from southern India, dark skin being apparently an
adaptation to high levels of sunlight. Whether they classify as
Caucasion or, more generally, what their genetic origin is, seems to
be still a matter of some dispute.
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The genetic views on race differ in their classification of
Dravidians. According to population geneticist L.L. Cavalli-Sforza of
Stanford, based on work done in the 1980s, Indians are genetically
Caucasian, but Lewontin rejects the label Caucasian. Cavalli-Sforza
found that Indians are about three times closer to West Europeans
than to East Asians.[9] Dr. Eduardas Valaitis, in 2006, found that
India is genetically closest to East and Southeast Asians with about
15% more genetic similarity than to Europeans; he also found that
India could be considered very distinct from other regions.[10]
Genetic anthropologist Stanley Marion Garn considered in the 1960s
that the entirety of the Indian Subcontinent to be a "race"
genetically distinct from other populations.[9][11] Others, such as
Lynn B. Jorde and Stephen P. Wooding, claim South Indians are genetic
intermediaries between Europeans and East Asians.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravidian_peoples
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David Friedman
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