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Previous post January 26, January 26, Sex Separation in Education 8 November, Leave A Reply Cancel reply You must be logged in to post a comment. Login with your site account Lost your password? Advancement in the military was the greatest honor a Romulan could earn. They are best known for being masters of the long game, sometimes waiting decades to effect a master plan. Their weaponry and ship technology is on par with the Federation's best, but their cloaking technology gives them a frightening advantage in a fight.
The combination of elements makes Romulans a huge threat. While reptilian in appearance, the Gorn possess a keen intellect, to the point of being able to achieve warp travel. They are also one of the strongest species in the entire galaxy, with physical feats of strength that greatly outnumber many others from different worlds. They were first introduced in classic Trek, when K irk had to use both his fists, and his brain to defeat one in combat.
The Gorn were territorial and aggressive, but not necessarily warlike. Their culture may have been xenophobic to a point, though they were later known to share in galactic events, while mingling with other species. However, very few dared to cross them.
The Tholians were a-non humanoid, enigmatic species first introduced to Star Trek audiences as an antagonist race. After trapping another Federation vessel, the Defiant , the Tholians attempted the same with the Enterprise. The so-called "Tholian Web" was projected and woven in space by their vessels, comprised of interconnected energy filaments. Tholians were an instant fan favorite, despite remaining so mysterious.
Their modern appearance was akin to a crystalline spider with average height, comparable to humans. Left unchecked, Tholians are a definite threat. The Hirogen were one of the most dominant species in the Delta Quadrant when the Starship Voyager encountered them in the 24th century.
Much like the Yautja warriors of the Predator film franchise, the Hirogen based their entire culture on hunting worthy galactic prey. Physically, they were very imposing, with great height and broad composite armor. Every aspect of their technology enhanced their martial and hunting capabilities. A single Hirogen hunting vessel required a minimal crew, and could dominate regions of space spanning many light years. They were considered an apex species in the Delta Quadrant. While the Zalkonian race appears to be a seemingly ordinary humanoid species, it's their evolutionary biology that makes them so powerful.
On their own, individual Zalkonians are no stronger than an average human, with comparable weapons and ship technology. However, the Zalkonians were shown to be taking the first steps towards an evolutionary ascension in the 24th century. The Enterprise-D gave safe refuge to a Zalkonian dubbed John Doe, who was capable of healing mortal wounds, transporting himself or other beings with a thought, and resurrecting the dead.
They are sufficiently alien in the fact that emotional concepts like love, grief and even the concept of linear time are incomprehensible to them. They are solely concerned with their own perception of the welfare of Bajor. With Captain Sisko as their Emissary, they heavily shaped the course of the Dominion War, making them one extremely powerful alien species that preferred indirect action, as opposed to outright violence.
The Breen are as dangerous as they are mysterious. They are only ever seen in their armored regeneration suits, and they are immune to empaths. Physically, they are devastating in combat. Not only were they repelled, but the fleet was never heard from again. Even the Romulans and the Cardassians are frightened of the Breen. They have no apparent rules of engagement, and focus primarily on destroying their opponents by any means necessary.
They even carried out a successful attack on Starfleet headquarters in San Francisco, at the start of the Dominion War. Genes may contribute to variation in these traits, but to the extent they do, there would be a cascade of genes at work, interacting with each other and the environment, in relationships so intricate and complex, that science has hardly begun to decipher them.
And you have to be very careful. Even when there are genes that influence those things, to talk about it as genes for them is not so clear. OSSORIO: What makes us different is both those genetic differences that we have between us and also the interaction of that genome with the environment, and the environment is a very, very complicated thing. So when I say, I sort of mean the environment writ large, everything from the environment in the womb to the environment in your school. Sons of immigrants, theirs were the hoop dreams of the day.
GRAVES: And it was said that the reason that they were so good at basketball was because the, the artful dodger characteristic of the Jewish culture made them good at this sport. There are strong cultural aspects of what sports individuals choose to play that has to do with the interaction of individual genetic background of opportunity and training. History shows us, that as opportunities change in society, different groups get drawn into sporting arenas. The top NBA draft pick?
GRAVES: We can't come to any fast hard rule about how, uh, genetic ancestry is going to influence the ability of an individual to perform an athletic event. So I don't think we're ever going to be able to isolate a gene for athletic performance.
If genes contribute to Marcus' musical talent, there would be dozens, interacting with environment, training, and practice. Those genes would be inherited independently of the genes for eye shape, skin color and hair form which Marcus inherited through his Korean - and Jamaican ancestors.
In other words, skin color needs to reflect things that are deeper in the body, under the skin. But most of human variation is non-concordant. Skin color or eye color or hair color is not correlated with height or weight.
And they're definitely not correlated with more complex traits like intelligence or athletic performance. Jamil right? From the beginning, they believed they would be most similar genetically to those whose racial ancestry they believed they shared. KING: If we want a very fine scale for assessing how similar we are to each other, person by person, we can do that by sequencing that small bit of mitochondrial DNA.
It does not code for any traits, and is inherited only from our mother. KING: Now, what will it tell us? It will tell us a whole lot about one of our ancestors, our mother's mother's mother's mother's mother. The students are sampling a small sequence, about three-hundred and fifty letters long. They find that most of it is identical, one to the other. What is not, is highlighted in yellow. In fact, Jon discovered that he had the same number of differences with Kiril as he had with Jackie, only three.
NARRATOR: If human variation were to map along racial lines, people in one so-called race would be more similar to each other than to those in another so-called race. That's not what the students found in their mtDNA. What about other genetic differences?
LEWONTIN: The problem for evolutionists and population geneticists was always to try to actually characterize how much genetic variation there was between individuals and groups. And I spent a lot of time worrying about that, like other people in my profession. A new technology enabled him to do pioneering work. If you could grind it up, you could do it. Uh, that included people, I mean, you don't have to grind the whole person, but you could take a little tissue, or blood. Over the years, a lot of data were gathered by anthropologists and geneticists looking at blood group genes, and protein genes, and other kinds of genes from all over the world.
I mean, anthropologists just went around taking blood out of everybody. But uh, but they did, and so, I thought, 'well, we've got enough of these data, let's see what it tells us about the differences between human groups. Between individuals within Sweden, or within the Chinese, or the Kikuyus, or the Icelanders. Any two individuals within any so-called race may be as different from each other as they are from any individual in another so-called race.
Um, the answer is no. There's as much or more diversity and genetic difference within any racial group as there is between people of different racial groups. There can be accumulations of genes in one place in the globe and not another. And for some genetic diseases, like sickle cell disease. Long assumed to be a racial trait, sickle cell disease is a debilitating disorder caused by a gene form that alters the shape of red blood cells.
The sickle cell trait is not uncommon in people from the, in people from the Mediterranean region. Sickle cell trait persists in certain populations around the world because of the relative resistance it confers to malaria. So people who've got sickle cell trait are less likely to develop malaria and when they do develop it, they are less likely to develop severe complications and to die from it.
And in the Mediterranean basin, the home of Jackie Washburn's ancestors. Thought to have originated only a few thousand years ago, sickle cell is not a racial trait. It's the result of having ancestors who lived in malarial regions.
Race does not account for patterns of genetic variation. Our recency as a species and the way we have moved and mated throughout our history, does. Our human lineage originated in Africa. About two million years ago, small groups of early hominids - not modern humans -- began a first migration out of Africa to the far reaches of the globe, breeding isolated lineages. It was long thought, and is still believed by some, that those first lineages led to genetically distinct races that are with us today.
I think there's almost genetic proof now - I wouldn't say the issue is totally resolved -- that those lineages just died out. That Neanderthals in Europe died. That homo erectus in Asia died. That there was a second migration of our modern species homo sapiens, and that all modern humans are products of the second migration, which is probably less than a hundred thousand years old, by the best current evidence.
But, other movements are much more subtle. They're smaller groups of individuals that moved, or their genes moved from place to place, and time to time.
We've had maybe a hundred thousand years of having genes move out and mix and re-sort in countless different ways. Human populations have not been isolated from each other long enough to evolve into separate subspecies.
GOULD: There just hasn't been time for the development of much genetic variation, except that which regulates some very superficial features like skin color and hair form. Under the skin, we really are effectively the same. And we get fooled, because some of the visual differences are quite noticeable. By the time they arose, important and complicated traits, like speech, abstract thinking, even physical prowess, had already evolved. KING: As geneticists, we now have the opportunity to investigate, using proper genomic analysis, complex human traits: athletic ability, musical ability, intelligence, all these wonderful traits that we wish we understood better and for which we'd very much like to know if there are genes that are involved, how they interact, how they play out.
Those traits are old. We spent most of our history, as a species, together in Africa in small populations before anyone left. There's far more of us now than those small, original populations that founded our species. Each of us carries with us some very recent variation and some common, shared variation that goes way back in human history. NARRATOR: Variations among us in those old traits developed independent of and non-concordant with variations in the recent, superficial traits we think of as racial.
Human variation does not map onto what we call race. No matter how we might measure it. And you're going to blast this database with your DNA sequence, and it's going to pull up anything that's significantly similar.
And now They compared their mitochondrial DNA sequences with an international database. Now does that necessarily mean you're Yoruban? It just means that there's somebody in this part, whoever, in this part of the world, has a very similar DNA sequence to you.
Her match was dramatically different from another Yoruban's, whose DNA sequence was very different from still other Yorubans. Because modern humans first evolved in Africa, there is even greater genetic diversity in Africa than elsewhere. GRAVES: So, if there were a catastrophe which destroyed the rest of the world's population, most of the genetic variability in the world would still be present in sub-Saharan Africans. NOAH: If I actually know my maternal lineage, like I know where it should end up, doing a search like this should double-check it, right?
NOAH: My preconceived notion is, um, we know back from my great-great-great grandmother, and she had lived in Eastern Europe her whole life in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in a little town in the Ukraine, as far as I understand.
So let's go back and we'll look at yours. And isolate from the Balkans. Not a major shock there. Uh, let's see how similar you are to that person. NOAH: And we had always guessed that my great grandmother had been this nice little farm girl who had spent her whole life in the Ukraine. And so I was pretty sure that I should be a pretty exact match to one of those ethnic groups, and I was. BRONSON: Well, what it's showing you is not, that you're closely related to this person, may-, possibly, mitochondrially speaking, and that we're all very closely related NOAH: So that somewhat shocked me, actually, that there were so many of these racial groups that shared it.
I'm just a mutt so to speak.
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