Alan Templeton
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Alan Templeton is a geneticist and statistician from the Washington University, known for his theories regarding the lack of genetic differences between humans of different races. According to Templeton's research, perceived differences in races are more related to cultural perceptions and biases trained into our eyes than any underlying genetic reality. For example, Templeton's statistical analysis of the human genome shows that much greater genetic diversity exixts between populations of chimpanzees than humans.
Palaeontologists in search for the fame associated with discovery have been too zealous in their efforts to distinguish between different classes of primitive man, such as Cro-Magnon, Homo sapiens and Neandertal.
Instead, we're closer to primitive man than we thought, Templeton argues.
"I can find living humans whose DNA is more different from each other than a Neanderthal's is different from mine," Templeton asserts.
Templeton claims that we didn't wipe out our evolutionary predecessors but instead bred with them.
"For my generation it was make love not war. That's what's really going on when people go into new areas, they interbreed, they don't wipe everybody out." [quotes taken from The Age]