I don't think you said what you meant to say. Isn't any Asian person
living today a direct descendant of the progenitor of all Asian people
living today? Perhaps this man is a particularly close genetic copy of the
progenitor.
Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, David Opderbeck wrote:
> I saw this a while back. It's really well done. There's an
> unintentionally funny and poignant moment, though, when Wells seeks out and
> meets a Mongolian (I think he's Mongolian, but I don't exactly rememer)
> person who apparently is a direct descendant of the progenitor of all Asian
> people living today (or something like that). The poor Mongolian man is
> completely befuddled and has no clue what Wells is trying to tell him about
> his ancestry. That moment seems as powerful a commentary on geopolitics,
> education, and affluence as it is on the possibilities of forensic genetics.
>
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