After Comments on Africans, James Watson's Own Genes Found 16% African

So Watson, are you only 16% stupid? I thought is was more like 100%. Especially if you really believed there is any such thing as a "pure" race. I just pray that we don't share any ancestors.

I guess the Black genes in him made him use Photograph 51, which was STOLEN from Rosalind Franklin's drawer and was used to get him and his buddies Nobel Prizes, which by the way, they had did not share with the lady. Yeah, right.

Before you naysayers comment that he can't be Black because he doesn't look it, you should read about Dr. Gregory H. Williams, the current president of City College of New York and the former dean of Ohio Sate University Law School. His publications include the memoir, Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black, which was named Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times in 1995. Take a look at his picture and tell me would you call him Black. Even if you don't think so, that doesn't change the fact that he is.

Well ain't that the pot calling the kettle "BLACK"!!!

We all have African ancestory.

Africans may not be the original human population. There may have been multiple populations that modern man descended from.

People seem to think that if Africa is the source of modern humanity that Africans are evidently gifted in some way. Not so.

And if Watson is 16% African, that means he is 84% non-African. Or did you all miss that?

I guess his "stupid" genes made him say that stupid remark.

Actually we may all be related to africans. Think of them as the missing link or neanderthals if you will. Intellectually, they may catch up with the rest of us in the next several thousand years.

ALL present-day humans, including everyone posting on this message board, (not just James Watson) are directly descended from the anatomically modern humans that developed in Africa and migrated in one or more waves over the past 75,000 years or so. In addition, every analysis of genetic patterns in humans detects extensive DNA variety in people in sub-Saharan Africa but relatively few differences among those elsewhere. This is because it was only a relatively small group of Africans that left the ancestral population and populated Asia, Europe and the Americas. Kenneth Kidd, Professor of Genetics at Yale University, has found that because of this bottleneck exodus, the DNA of black Africans contains more genetic variation than is present in the peoples of ALL OTHER CONTINENTS COMBINED. He suggests that the extremes of human characteristics are more likely to be evident in the original human population of the earth (the black African population). Therefore, it is possible the most athletic humans (and least athletic) would be African. In addition, as far as intelligence is determined by DNA, the most intelligent (and least intelligent) would presumably be African as well.

As a supposedly enlightened and mature society, I wonder if we'll ever get past this childish sniping at one another over skin-color and ancestry. We are what we are, and there's no power in the universe that can change it. Deal with it!

Whether you are black white green or purple, everyone has a stupid gene! everyone on this panel sounds stupid and prejudice oh, and let's not forget IGNORANT! Andy i wish they're were more like you in this world!

I would suggest to the fellow who thinks modern humans evolved from "multiple populations" that his ancestry may include a cypress stump. That's a very outmoded bit of 19th century misunderstanding of genetics that should have been obvious to everyone by now - even in this education-free zone.

Still there's a great source of entertainment in listening to people bragging about their 103 IQ as compared to some inferior race's 101 - as though either one was within 50 points of being something to brag about.

Oh yes, and to the other "expert" - Neanderthalers were a separate species and are not our ancestors.

The multiple origin theory has pretty much been dismissed by anthropologists. To suggest that H. sapiens evolved in multiple environments independently is, in my opinion, ridiculous.

Food for thought: If we have just one anscester that is black (the kind with the curly hair or any other kind for that matter), ...we would not even exist!!! So remember to kiss a black person's feet or something like that the next time you see them.

Hitler was apparently part Jewish. I believe that it is possible that he blamed his bad behaviors on that Jewish ancestry.

This past summer I believe the National Geographic Channel aired a documentary called "The Search for Adam." They analyzed DNA from thousands of men thru out the world and guess what, according to their data, Adam was black. I always knew I had black in me. I love that funky soul sound.

No matter what colour our skin is or the texture of our hair. We're all God's children. He made us purposely the way we are. GOD DOESN'T MAKE MISTAKES.

There are a lot of people who think like Mr. James Watson (Who's Own Genes Found 16% African) and the majority of them are in power. This is why there is a Geo political program to keep Blacks out of the loop, Whites fear that they will have to acquiesce to the true aboriginals!!! So by keeping Blacks in poverty and Uneducated will for surly discourage any advancement on the world stage. Just Get the Movie Freedom Road and that will tell part of the story........

If 16 per cent of Watson's genes "probably" came from Africans, then 16 per cent of his genes "probably" came from frogs also. Who cares!!!

A lot of men think women are dumber then men...and yet, somehow, every man descended from one of them stupid women. Why shouldn't they also believe someone they aren't related to (or are distantly related to) is also more stupid than they are?

The problem is that way more than 16% of his RESEARCH came from Rosalind Franklin.