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From: macleod@drivax.UUCP (MacLeod)
Newsgroups: ca.politics,sci.bio
Subject: Hybrid vigor
Message-ID: <4869@drivax.UUCP>
Date: 4 Aug 89 22:27:30 GMT
Reply-To: macleod@drivax.UUCP (MacLeod)
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David Casseres writes:

:: American Blacks
:: are highly hybridized with Whites, and exhibit the hybrid vigor
:: so prized by athletic teams.

:If some people posted this bullshit, I would assume they didn't know it 
:was racist ignorance.  In your case, I assume that you do know, and that 
:either you are a racist or you are just being a self-indulgent wise guy.

I may well be wrong, so tell me where my analysis goes astray.

Back in high school biology, I was taught that a eugenics program should
take a given gene pool and inbreed it for 20 generations, weeding out
the recessive-gene problems dredged up by the increasingly homozygous
population.  At this point, the gene pool is outbred to a very different
one, and the F1 generation produced exhibits heterozygous "hybrid vigor",
often exceeding either parent stock in desired traits.

European and African gene pools were at least 20 generations apart when 
they were merged in America, and the hybridized slaves were pruned further
by clever owners, so it doesn't surprise me that professional sports is 
dominated by black Americans and black-Native American-white hybrids.
(Native to South America, that is, where they interbred with the European
Spanish.)

Of course, we're all supposed to pretend that none of this ever happened...


Michael Sloan MacLeod  (amdahl!drivax!macleod)