Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!umich!sharkey!bnlux1.bnl.gov!kyee From: kyee@bnlux1.bnl.gov (kenton yee) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: Crossing Humans w/ Humans. Message-ID: <1991Jun21.215746.14956@bnlux1.bnl.gov> Date: 21 Jun 91 21:57:46 GMT References: <43492@cup.portal.com> Distribution: usa Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 Lines: 11 In article <43492@cup.portal.com> Larry_WB_Ching@cup.portal.com writes: > While I was at a party at a science fiction convention in San Diego a >few years ago, I met a woman who claimed some knowledge of human genetics. >She said that the human race was close to speciation; >as I remember, her evidence was that persons of pure Eskimo ancestry >cannot produce normal children by persons of pure Australian aboriginal >ancestry. > Was she right, or am I misquoting her? I think her point in using these >two ethnic groups is that both have been isolated for many generations. but this can be easily tested. maybe the kids are mules.