"forkliftramp.com" <Brian_knowspam.McDonald.DeleteThis@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:35:16 -0500, "deowll" <deowll.DeleteThis@bellsouth.net>
> wrote:
>
>
>>They have a host of genetic traits that fit them for their life style.
>>While
>>your observation may be correct they are being displaced and their genetic
>>legacy is vanishing. The reason could be as simple as being ill suited to
>>village life and work in the open under a hot tropical sun. The bottom
>>line
>>is that in the villages people with pygmy genes do not prosper. They are
>>vanishing rather than being assimilated.
>>
>
> the genes may not be getting expressed any more in the hybrids but
> i'll bet they aren't being purged from the genome just pushed into the
> background waiting for next time they are useful.
I think the problem is the reverse. The genes are expressed and they
negatively impact the lives of those who have them because they are the
result of selection for living in one environment and now the people live in
a very different environment to which the villagers are much better adapted.
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