Going to the Dogs...

[Wisdom's Child]

A fairly recent CNN News Article has had me thinking about the Racial Differences found in Mankind.

Study: Dog DNA shows influence of man
Thursday, May 20, 2004 Posted: 2:17 PM EDT (1817 GMT)

A team scanning the genetic code of dogs for insight into human disease found a surprising 30 percent of genetic differences among dogs can be accounted for by a few hundred years of intense inbreeding -- far more than the so-called racial differences between humans.

"Although all are members of the same species, this selective breeding has resulted in amazing variation between breeds with respect to weight, size, head shapes, coat, ear shape, behaviors and diseases."

"There are more than 400 breeds of dog, and each is an isolated breeding population," Ostrander said in a statement.

"The dogs of a particular breed are much more similar to one another than they are to dogs of different breeds. These differences are so distinct that we could just feed a dog's genetic pattern into the database, and the computer could match it to a breed," Kruglyak said in a statement.

This was a surprise.

"It's a much more striking difference than is seen among human populations that evolved on different continents," he said.

This article seems to indicate that through "Forced Inbreeding", a variety of different genetic traits can be brought out in a rather short time period.

According to this study, 200 years of inbreeding has brought far more variation to Dog Breeds than having Humans evolving on different continents.

This has gotten me to think...
Logically, if Genetics are roughly the same for Humans, given the ammount of variation between the Races is far less than what is found in Dog Breeds, If we were to Isolate a breeding group of Humans and forced them to Inbreed for say 50 generations, we would be able to distinguish roughly 100 obvious racial differences.

Now all we would have to do is think about when in the past such a Dividing and Inbreeding would have occured...

Hey Wait, Mankind was divided at the Tower of Babel, and forced to separate into small groups. That would have been at least 125 generations ago, more than enough time for the handful of variations found among the Races to occur, most would have probably developed within the first 20 or so generations. Right about the time that God was telling Moses to stop the Inbreeding.

What do you think?