>You and your friends are surprisingly genetically similar
>The similarity isn't immense -- about 1%, roughly the same as between fourth cousins -- but it's significant enough to be detected and to have evolutionary implications.
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I met all my friends through games.
Games are in my DNA?
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>people like other people who are similar to them
Gee fuck really
You don't say
>I met all my friends through games.
>Games are in my DNA?
probably actually means that you (and most people who meet friends online) are actually bucking this because you cant clue in on all the subtle shit that you can IRL
>I have no friends
Does that mean I have special snowflake DNA that doesn't match up with others and in fact repells them?
no, it means you have cancer.
Fourth cousins are the genetically optimum for fertility. It balances the risks of inbreeding and outbreeding. So this is no surprise. Your interests aren't genetic, just the people you gravitate towards.
Btw op the other pic of that chick is way cuter. In this pic wearing that dress she looks kind of dumpy, whereas from the front she's pretty fit.
>Humans are genetically similar
It means you have no soul.
>Games are in my DNA?
Probably not games specifically, no. The personality traits that result in you liking them are though.
I sincerely hope that's Madness Returns Alice in your picture, and not just a random slut.
Did other kids attempt to instinctively murder you when you were young?
Not uncommon
Two friends of mine discovered they were second cousinsafter becoming friends
I don't have friends. Only useful acquaintance.
Yes, just like I did to them. Is that not common?
Yeah, its hard to make friends with autist dna
>Fourth cousins are the genetically optimum for fertility
What are you implying?
That if you share a single (out of 32) great great great grandparent, you'll maximize the viability of your offspring. How many people can even name all their great great great grandparents? Do you even know who your fourth cousins are?
That study was only even possible due to the unique genealogical data they had.
Yes, it means you're a psychic blank and very important asset in the defence of Mankind.
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Goddamnit, now I want to make a dystopia that controls its citizenship through an algorithm that optimizes partners everyone is held to. So it simultaneously ensures that nearly everyone has sex while stabilizing the population.
I think a YA novel already did that, but I wonder what a culture where that is the norm would be like?
interesting how fast tg threads can devolve into eugenics
Seriously. The study might as well say "people tend to have personal relationships inside their ethno-cultural groups." Then it would be accurate to all forms of human interaction.
Try again.
>a single study comes to a conclusion
>this must be true across all of human biology
It's not a very easy thing to study, mind you, but I would not put more than an egg or two in a single studies basket.
*study's
I think it's more interesting how many people still see eugenics as "bad", rather than placing the distrust on authoritarianism where it belongs.
Considering my grandfather collected baseball cards to an obsessive degree, and played card games like pinochle almost nightly, I know damn well if he were born in the modern age he'd be a Magic: the Gathering fiend. I don't play that game much, myself, but that's because my collectibles are tabletop books and video games. I got the bug from him, I am damn well sure. He would never have admitted it, but he was a total fucking obsessive baseball nerd.
There is no fucking risk of outbreeding are you retarded?
What? Are you retarded?
Every human shares 99%+ genes with every other human because the individual differences between humans are a tiny fraction of our makeup and most human biological structures are largely the same between individuals (e.g e.g hearts, skeleton, circulatory system, nervous system, brain in our skull, and so on).
>Extremely attracted to a girl that shares my surname
>We have behavioral similarities
>She looks and smells good
A-am I trying to commit incest unknowingly?
It's not that hard for people to be indirect descendant of some king.
incest is wincest user, or so pornhub tells me.
I'd DN her A, if you catch my drift.
I figure it's going to happen at least once a month to be honest.
Thank you! My country tried it for a while in the 1900's and I whish we would've continued and see it improved with a more modern understanding of genetics.
When you start getting into fourth cousins, you're literally talking about a pool of hundreds of people.
And given that most people tend to be friends with people in the same general area, a pool of hundreds of people makes up a fairly sizeable chunk of the average american town of 20k.
I'd be more interested to see if this test controlled for people that stayed in the general area they grew up in vs those that moved quite far from it.
There was an anime kinda about this that season iirc.
Ah right, found it
>myanimelist.net
Haven't seen it though.
Half-breeds have all kinds of problems. They're susceptible to all genetic problems from both constituent races and have a really tough time getting things like organ donation if they need them.
I fucking hate these genetically different people.
>implying Corey is a random slut
kys
People have played games for thousands of years. You were born to be a gamer.
While that may be true on the surface you have to realize changes to those biological structures are more than likely to be deleterious, meaning most of the changes are bound to happen across other parts of the genome, such as genes for personality and appearance, simply because the people who get the short end of the stick are usually just stillborn and rarely live to reproduce.
>Impregnate a gamer
>Your child has double-gamer DNA
This is how dynasties are born
With what we know today about the human genome, we could turn our species into something incredible, after some trial and error of course.
Men can't get pregnant.
There's been several similar studies. Such as the ones that found that, mathematically, most Western Europeans can trace their DNA to Charlemagne. This isn't because he was a Genghis Khan who fucked all the princesses, no, it's because of the logistics of genetics. Every generation you look back cubes the number of positions on your family tree. There is 1 you, 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great-grandparents and so on.
It's isn't before long that people start repeating on your family tree. This isn't in-breeding, and it's perfectly natural. As we've seen from this new study OP gave us, and MANY MANY others, people are attracted to genetically similar people for the most part. This study looked at friendships, but earlier studies have noticed the same trend in romantic relationships too.
Studies have also shown that people are disinterested in those they grow up with, regardless of genetic relation (for example, adopted kids won't actually be attracted to their adopted siblings if raised from a child on the same house). That is the counter-balance to in-breeding, while attractions to a certain level of genetically similar people is a counter to out-breeding, which does cause complications in the survival of offspring.
>The similarity isn't immense -- about 1%, roughly the same as between fourth cousins
Well, we're an inbred species, not much else to say about it. Especially all of us descended from the small number of people who left Africa back in the day.
You're kidding, right? Not even getting into shit like organ donations, half breeds have a well documented 18-26% higher chance of mental illness and start storing up recessive genetic disorders like crazy. This is coming from a half breed..
That's actually wrong, we had good genetic diversity when "we left africa". Nearly every human genetic order can be traced back to the Toba near extinction because of the absolutely massive drop in the human population caused a huge amount of inbreeding just to survive.
A lot of positive and negative Eurasian traits also come from the benefits or drawbacks of the coding DNA we got from Neanderthals.
What might we conclude from this.
legendary
>small number of people who left Africa back in the day.
Actually new findings show Humans in eastern europe before they were in africa.
Humans came from Europe, specifically bulgaria I think.
>outbreeding depression can occur in humans
>le gentle and dignified Neanderthal DNA
>we actually evolved in Eastern Europe
Every day, you guys find a way to disappoint me more. I'm actually impressed.
Mate, the out of africa homo sapiens sapiens thing is definitely out dated.
>Out of Africa
>Outdated
>Monday 4 September 2017
>But the new discovery of a footprint that appears to have belonged to a human that trod down in Crete 5.7 million years ago challenges that story.
Oh, so a single fringe case that's actually proven nothing is your rock solid foundation?
Congrats Veeky Forums, you've lowered my expectations of your twice in one day.
Mate, you're going to have to get over the fact that our common ancestor was black.
I wasn't trying prove something.
Other curiosities could be provided.
The 'Out of Africa' paradigm is less solid today than it was ten years ago.
It's actually stronger a theory now then ever before.
Not according to recent discoveries.
Eurasians are genetically different in a handful of very substantial ways from their African ancestors and modern-day Sub-Saharan Africans, as are Aborigines and some South Asians different from Africans and Eurasians (due to their Denisovan genes).
We don't really know what the differences are though.
Where do you find a good, genetically compatible, girl?
She smell good? If so, she's genetically compatible.
And not that her perfume smells good. Her natural smell.
It'd be cool to travel back in time to look into this wonderful stuff.
It's too risky though, I'd probably give them all some strange sickness.