Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 16:57:29 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Dr. Blood


>      A simple example in humans is ABO blood type.  O was the
> original as can be seen by the fact that it is very high in
> "aboriginal" populations including all South American Indians
> before intermarriage with Europeans and Africans, and even
> European "aboriginals" such as the Basques and Gaelic-speaking
> Irish from Munster.  A was a further back mutation and is quite
> widely distributed in peculiar ways (although it is absent in
> Native Americans from Central America south, it is at a 60% rate
> among the Nez Perce).  B is the most recent one and clearly occurred
> in Central Asia where nearly 40% of the population has it. <snip>
> Barkley Rosser

How long have blood samples been taken and classified? Unless one has a
sample of what we can agree was the "original" blood, how can we say what
the original vs. mutative (is that a real word?) blood is?

Sceptically,

Jerry



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