re: #241 Backwoods_Sleuth

UpChuck keeps saying “diverse”. I’ve been trying to figure out how that word is defined in his dictionary.

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Chuckles is partially correct. I had read something to that effect, but I had to find a source to confirm my memory. In fact, *modern* Africans are more genetically diverse than modern Europeans or Asians, which helps support the idea that a subset of ancient Africans left the continent to spread across the globe. From Wikipedia:

A May 2002 study examined three groups, African, European, and Asian. It found greater genetic diversity among Africans than among Eurasians, and that genetic diversity among Eurasians is largely a subset of that among Africans, supporting the ‘out of Africa’ model.[55]

Source 55 Yu, Ning et al (May 2002). “Larger Genetic Differences Within Africans Than Between Africans and Eurasians”. Genetics (Genetics Society of America). Retrieved 7 April 2013

I am not sure what pertinence his reference to Africans’ being more “diverse” has, though.