[asa] Francis Collins

In case you haven't noticed by now, Terry has made Francis Collin's talk at the ASA meeting available on our website www.asa3.org as well as the interview on Science Friday with Collins and Owen Gingerich.

I'd be interested in hearing your opinions of his answer to one of the Q&A's where he says that consideration of the entire genome indicates a population of about 10,000 for our ancestral heritage. I felt his answer was incomplete (necessarily due to the setting) and I didn't fully understand it. Perhaps some of you have more insight into the work he is citing and can help explain it. He gave no time frame so I don't know what that means. I suppose no matter how far back in time we go, we never get to a population much smaller than that for our ancestral species?

Randy

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Received on Tue Aug 8 21:10:49 2006