An Introduction In this post, I'm going to talk about an experiment we performed to examine alleles of the TAS2R38 gene. I also want to talk about the results I expected, why I expected them, and why this bias was incorrect. For that, I need to begin by talking about race. On a genetic level, race doesn't exist, or, at least, it's very, very different to how it works on a social level. People from Africa are the most racially diverse, and differ from each other more than, say, someone from England and someone from India do, on a genetic level. That's due to the founder effect; only a small portion of the population of Africa left to populate the rest of the world, representing only a tiny fraction of humanity's genome. The DNA of human beings, in general, is really not all that different. For more info, take a look at A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford . And yet, even knowing that, it made me happy that ...
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