James Watson

[Grey]

Classify him please.

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Wikipedia claims that "16% of Watson's DNA is of African origin and 9% is of Asian origin". Does this appear to be true based on his phenotype?

[Kadu]

Wikipedia claims that "16% of Watson's DNA is of African origin and 9% is of Asian origin". Does this appear to be true based on his phenotype?

Well, someone with non European admixture can still look phenotipically Europid, however i think that the Icelandic genomics company who claims such thing are talking out of their asses. It's very unlikely that he has those percentages of non European contributions.
He's Nordid BTW.

[Grey]

Oh I know it's possible, though I thought it would be improbable. That's why I asked if it appears to be true. It made me curious though, because he looks very much like my father's brother who has neither African nor Asian ancestry.

[lei.talk]

Wikipedia claims that "16% of Watson's DNA is of African origin and 9% is of Asian origin"."His father was of Scottish descent (both Dewey and Watson being Scottish surnames). His mother's father Lauchlin Mitchell, a tailor, was from Glasgow, Scotland, and her mother, Lizzie Gleason, was the child of Irish parents from Tipperary."

the differentiating genetic material makes the difference -
not the common genetic material:

over ninety-eight per centum with chimpanzees;
nine-two percent with dolphins;
seventy-five with dogs;
fifty with bananas;

roses have the same number of chromosomes
as humans - forty-six.


Definitio fit per genus proximum et differentiam specificam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genus%E2%80%93differentia_definition)
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[Agrippa]

He is mostly Nordid with Cromagnoid (Borreby?) admixture. Very Leptosomic and a schizothymic mastermind with great qualities.


16% of Watson's DNA is of African origin and 9% is of Asian origin

Many of those categorisations being not up to date and relate genetic variation to populations in an unjustified way. But even if it would be the case, what does African, what does Asian mean? Does it mean Negroid and Mongoloid? Should be more clear or its unimportant.

Furthermore such a relatively low level admixture going back so many generations will hardly leave significant traits on the phenotype after so many generations of recombination and most likely also selection. Mixture going back many hundreds or thousands of years, even if high, can be from a typological point of view irrelevant if the selection eliminated the related traits.

[Chris]

Makes sense that he's part Scottish!. When he was young he very much remsembled Ewen Bremner---in type anyway!

[Chris]

My grandfather looked like them both a bit when he was young---he was british descent, mostly Scottish too!

[Agrippa]

My grandfather looked like them both a bit when he was young---he was british descent, mostly Scottish too!

He seems to be basically of the same variant indeed, just more Nordid and less mixed I'd say.

[Fred]

He seems to be basically of the same variant indeed, just more Nordid and less mixed I'd say.Agrippa, when art thou going to post about anything other than taxonomy? Same avatar and signature, never changing a damn thing. ;) Watson seems to be fugly, nothing more or less. Don't polish a turd.:coffee:

[Agrippa]

Agrippa, when art thou going to post about anything other than taxonomy? Same avatar and signature, never changing a damn thing. ;) Watson seems to be fugly, nothing more or less. Don't polish a turd.:coffee:

Well, he achieved so much more for the group and mankind, in so many ways, than any handsome jerk with no brain, that being not the prettiest of all men is something we can largely ignore.

Probably he himself would agree, that not all of his traits are as desirable and this leads to the next point of yours, namely that I posted something about Eugenic and social policy.

I also posted something about economic questions and the problem of Capitalism and the Plutocratic Oligarchy and if there would be an interesting topic about prehistoric and historic problems or anything else of great significance to me, in which I feel that it might be useful to add something, I will post there too. :)

At least I try to stay on topic as long as the other people let me :thumb001:

[Osweo]

"His mother's mother, Lizzie Gleason, was the child of Irish parents from Tipperary."
Many thanks, Lei! I do believe you've found me an enviable distant cousin. :thumb001: My father's mother's mother was one of this clan, likewise from Tipperary. :chin: I'll have to look into this.


Watson looks pretty like Kitchener to me, without the moustache, and the latter is used occasionally as a Nordid examplar.

[Smeagol]

Nordic + Borreby.

[Graham]

North Atlantid-keltic. Looks familiar.