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James Watson might have not won that Nobel Prize if he grew up in the same circumstances as the people he tested. Its an issue of money. Poor people are not educated in finest schools and blacks in America are noted for being poor in general. White people seem to have more money.

I dont know James Watson, but i'll bet his education cost more then my house. He wasn't raised in a getto amongst the neglected where ignorance breeds ignorance, so to speak. One letter of code out of 3.1 billion letters is the difference between black and white. Trust me, everyone has a good brain. Its just how it gets used.


Scientists Find A DNA Change That Accounts For White Skin

By Rick Weiss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 16, 2005; A01



Scientists said yesterday that they have discovered a tiny genetic mutation that largely explains the first appearance of white skin in humans tens of thousands of years ago, a finding that helps solve one of biology's most enduring mysteries and illuminates one of humanity's greatest sources of strife.

The work suggests that the skin-whitening mutation occurred by chance in a single individual after the first human exodus from Africa, when all people were brown-skinned. That person's offspring apparently thrived as humans moved northward into what is now Europe, helping to give rise to the lightest of the world's races.

Leaders of the study, at Penn State University, warned against interpreting the finding as a discovery of "the race gene." Race is a vaguely defined biological, social and political concept, they noted, and skin color is only part of what race is -- and is not.

In fact, several scientists said, the new work shows just how small a biological difference is reflected by skin color. The newly found mutation involves a change of just one letter of DNA code out of the 3.1 billion letters in the human genome -- the complete instructions for making a human being.


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