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Old 10-20-2007, 02:01 PM   #72 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by highthief
I think the best athletes - and I'm thinking of some of the greats including decathletes like Brian Clay and Daley Thompson, Muhammed Ali, Tiger Woods, have been mixed race.
Hybrid vigor.

Anyway, clearly I missed out on the bulk of this discussion (been away in Italy for a week... and if there's any room for joking about background, I don't know how that nation descends from the Romans ), but didn't we just go over this whole topic (race) recently in another thread?...

Sapiens has covered pretty much everything, and he kicks my social scientific ass (and I have no idea what his genetic background is, but I'd be willing to be he's a damn good sociologist, statistician, demographer, or something of the like... professor?).

Clines, anyone? That's my paltry contribution.
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