Genetics and Inheritance

by TNO Staff | July 31, 2013

By John Bean. When the Human Genome Project was completed in 2000, it was widely touted that its result showed no genetic basis for race. In fact some scientists went so far as to dub race a “biological fiction.”

Developments since then have clearly demonstrated that quite small genetic differences can produce disproportionate results that substantiate the fact that racial differences are a reality and that they are more complex than just differences in skin colour and hair texture.

When we are told that as the difference in DNA between peoples from different parts of the globe is so small therefore there is really no such thing as ‘race’, let us first remember that the difference between humans and chimpanzees is only just over one per cent. Yet despite sharing 99 per cent of the same DNA how is it that we are so different in appearance, behaviour and, above all, in mental abilities? Our pet dogs and cats also share around 80 per cent of our DNA. Approximately 75 per cent of mouse genes so far identified have a firm counterpart in the human genome.

Furthermore, according to Prof. http://newobserveronline.com/genetics-and-inheritance/