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Originally posted by papichulo
These plantation owners would pick their big "buck" slaves to breed with equally big black women so as to produce "ideal" slave workers. Imagine the effect this widespread practice had on the African-American gene pool.
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very little.
Humanity has been evolving for millions of years.
A few generations is not enough time to have significant impact.
And what about the european genes that have breed with that african slave gene line? The white masters, and then interracial couples. Very few african-americans look like african-africans now.
Fact is, it's very possible (and common) for a 'black' person and a 'white' person to be more genetically similar to eachother than two 'blacks', or two 'whites'. Judging the total genetics of a person by their skin color is as arbitrary as judging the total genetics of a person by their height.