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With on going inter-racial breading will all humans eventually be identical?

I assume this hasn't occurred yet because international travel has only recently become common.  Even if we do't all end up identical is it possible we will all be the same skinned, the same haired and the same built?

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petethebloke says:

Well, we certainly won't be identical. For that to happen we'd all have to be clones. Imagine a small island community - where consanguinity might be high - you still don't end up with identical people. At worst you might note a reduced variation in height, build, hair colour etc.

My dear old mum used to have a theory that we'd all end up "coffee-coloured" and I sometimes wonder if this is true. Rationally, though, it's not going to happen because too many genes express themselves on an all-or-nothing basis.

Genetically, the reason you won't see clones everywhere is that gene variation is so enormous. I wonder if you're making the mistake of thinking, "All chimpanzees look the same, therefore humans could too". This has been dealt with in this forum previously: all chimps do not look the same.

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posted on 2011-01-07 09:29:17 | Report abuse


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