Our givens and our traits…

This section is about our givens, our genetic inheritance, and the traits we are all born with.

 

Here’s a good introduction to Genetics from Gene Screen BC 2011. This packed video called “18 Things You Should Know About Genetics” gives quite a number of interesting facts in just under three and a half minutes:

 

The differences between races are trivial:

 

We are all essentially the same, but we humans also have much diversity. Spencer Wells on TED shows us how scientists explain this using DNA. He also discusses our common African ancestry through Mitochondrial Eve – allegedly the first woman:

 

Brian Sykes, a top geneticist, talks on MSNBC Cable TV about our common genetic pool. In this interesting interview he informs us that we obtain our genes from almost every other culture: