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Can Radiation change your genes? Just a quick question as I am reading this book about the history of the world again...told in a fiction/non fiction matter (the book is non fiction but there may be things people do not agree with so...whatever)...but here is the quote...
‘I have been wanting to ask you a question, Thao.’
‘Please do.’ ‘ You said that it was the black people from Australia who spread to New Guinea and Africa. How is it then, that now, the Aborigines are so different from the blacks throughout the world?’
‘Excellent question, Michel. My account should have included more detail. You see, as a result of the catastrophe, there had been such an upheaval, that deposits of uranium scattered on the surface of the Earth emitted strong radiation. This happened only in Australia, and those who escaped death were badly affected, just as in an atomic explosion. ‘They were genetically affected, so that today, the genes of Africans are different from those of Aborigines. Further, the environment totally changed and their diet drastically altered too. With the progress of time, these descendants of Bakaratinians were ‘transformed’ into the Aboriginal race of today.
Can radiation change human dna over time? Straight Jacket Funk Affair
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I don't believe radiation can "change" your DNA but I certainly believe in can cause mutations of one's cells. Your DNA is what you inherited from your parents and their's before them so the idea of somehow changing it through radiation exposure doesn't make sense. The same type of radiation under the same circumstances and exposed to the same population would have to take place generation after generation. Eh what do I know. I'M NOT SAYING YOU'RE UGLY. YOU JUST HAVE BAD LUCK WHEN IT COMES TO MIRRORS AND SUNLIGHT!
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cheers.I doubt that is why they changed, even the person quoted mentions diet and environment. Why do other races look different? Same reasons.
But yes I suppose radiation causes DNA mutations, but mutations are a natural occurance anyway, that is part of how we have such variety in humans, and how evolution occurs in general [Edited 6/22/11 15:07pm] My Legacy
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Thank you both for your answers...I needed just that little bit to make sure what I was reading was correct. Straight Jacket Funk Affair
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Not if you have a pair of good quality Levi's or G-Star's.
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I think that whoever concocted that theory just really, REALLY doesn't want to believe human life began in sub-Saharan Africa for whatever reason so they thought up a theory to make things fit how they want them to.
I'm not an expert on radiation by a longggg shot, but I think it can change dna and the cells in the body, but I thought it was along the lines of mutating and causing illnesses and deformities or something, not... changing ethnicities. "I don't think you'd do well in captivity." - random person's comment to me the other day | |
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‘Amicable relations were re-established with the black people in Australia and New Guinea who came to visit them regularly on ‘chariots of fire’ as they sometimes called the spaceships still being used by their Australian brothers. ‘The yellow race, being closer neighbours, began to immigrate, in small numbers, to northern Africa, and were fascinated by the tales of ‘The arrival of God on a Chariot of Fire’. This is how the legends subsequently referred to our intervention. ‘The yellow people were the first to mix with the black race physically speaking, I mean. It might be surprising, but never, on Bakaratini, had the race mixed to the extent that they did on Earth. The ethnologists were greatly interested in the results of this union, which produced on Earth, a great new tribe. Indeed, these ‘crossbreeds’ as I’ll call them, being crossed with more yellow blood than black, ended up feeling more at ease among themselves than with either black or yellow. Eventually, they grouped together and settled in the area now called Algeria - Tunisia, North Africa. Thus, a new race was born - the Arab race that you know. Don’t think though, they immediately resembled the race they are now. Climate and time, the passing of centuries, had its effect. My story simply gives you the idea of how the race began through inter-breeding.
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I think the same racist rationale that lends to that type of thinking also led to the destruction/genocide of the aboriginal tasmanian people. I'M NOT SAYING YOU'RE UGLY. YOU JUST HAVE BAD LUCK WHEN IT COMES TO MIRRORS AND SUNLIGHT!
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pretty much.
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dear...not only does that not make sense, but this is about dna...not denim | |
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