Who can say? Those with the DNA who won't let anyone see it for some reason
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Bauval has never made these claims before, which I think it's just odd for him to do now. He's always made claims about the ancients that were much different, like their knowledge of astronomy and engineering was at it's height, between 11,000 and 13,500 years ago, when he believes the Pyramids were built, using techniques that we don't understand, because they were an advanced, ancient space-faring society. Has this changed?

To add more confusion, there are recent reports from DNA testing that King Tut was actually western european. (Incase amazon blocks my link, the story is reprinted online at EUTimesDOTnet)

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His research has been solid in the past, but this seems a little like an attempt to sell books on a divisive topic. There seems to be evidence for all peoples being in and around ancient Egypt. I've seen statues with super-wide noses appearing to be negroid, but the sphinx (which most agree is actually much older than the Pyramid) and most other depictions of the ancient Egyptians looks clearly like something neither black or white.

This afrocentrist view has a place in the investigation, but to be so black and white about it is probably a mistake.
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At the very out set Cremo and Thompson do not come on as Creationists or Intelligent Designers in their views. They make it clear that with what evidence they have they will use the evolutionists dating theories to apply them.  While some of the information that they bring forth verge on the edge, the real question they are making is simple.  That is, if scientists put such emphases on investigation, then why not openly investigate these?  It is not so much the evidence that they bring forward, it the hypocrisy that is revealed in the science community.  After all, it is this community that has seemed to impress us with the idea of the so called scientific method as the proper tool of proof.  Anything less is worthless.  Cremo and Thompson contrasts this high and holier idea with discoveries that many of these people time and time again even refuse to consider all the objections to the data.  And most of the answers are simply based on the idea that their theory of origins say certain things should not be happening at certain times.  And thats that!  For example the Klerpsdorf spheres found in South Africa in a strata known to be at least 2 billion years old.  While there are theories of natural processes that are given to account for them, the problem is those groves that appear on all of them.  Those groves clearly are not made by a natural process.  They are far to perfect.  And what about the foot prints found in rock layers which no human tracks should be in?  These are also poohed as being done by natural processes.  Then these scientists lay out their reasoning for their opinion based on natural processes that surround the prints.  Yet, they ignore the same reasoning if foot prints they find seems to prove their beloved theory.  All that is demand is that all receive a fair hearing and research.  As a matter of fact it is beginning to be rather strange that anything that seems to question evolution is simply rejected out of hand.  The chorus of many fine and intelligent people who are equally educated as the evolutionist is growing and so is their rejection of Darwin.  And still we see no attempt on the side of evolutionists to consider any objection to their theory.  So this book simply adds to those of us who want a real scientific process to occur at all levels and for all discoveries - no matter where they are found.  Is this not reasonable to ask such intelligent people to do?  Study, and investigate, and so on and let the evidences lead us as it may rather then our preconceived ideas.  What hurts this request is this UFO nonsense.  But still, even then, let us dare to be the real thing and research all things.  Let debate go forth and use and apply the same standard of investigation on all things.  That is all that  Cremo and Thompson are asking in this particular work.  While they have some strange religious views, that is fine too.  Bring it on, and lets honestly test all things without our preconceived convictions.

I recommend this book because of the amount of odd and interesting information that they researched.  While not being "scientists" both men are highly educated and know well what they are writing about.  It is written on a high lay level of reading.  It gives good insight on how the internal science operates.  They raise the same questions about the main stream evolutionary science as do the Creationists and ID people and a growing host of others.  That is, the evolution scientists own all the research journals and make no attempt to include anything that seriously calls into question the doctrine of evolution.  If anything, they suppress it and refuse to test it.
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The author has written an interesting, engaging and very readable book about a difficult subject.  Where the book comes up short is in hard data, either his own data or the results of others.

A few comments:

1. The author makes much of the technique of "chromosome painting" without giving us a feel for how accurate the technique is.  He glosses over his results that all of his African-American samples have lots of "Native American" DNA (colored "orange").  Could these stunning results be some kind of artifact of sampling and/or testing?  Do "African-Americans" really have more Native American DNA than "White" Americans?

2. The author seizes on the fact that a teeny-tiny snippet of his own DNA (colored "green") on a single chromosome indicates that he had an "African" ancestor in the not so distant past.  I suspect that there are probably at least eight reasons why this could be an artifactual result.

3. The author unashamedly supposes that this book is only for an American audience: "You take Halloween more seriously than we do in Britain", and thus has a hint -- or a tint -- of a patronizing tone (unintended, I am sure).

4. The book is unbalanced: a very lengthy travelogue section, and a very short "Discussion of the results" section.

5.  Nevertheless, if you are interested in the subject, this is "must reading".
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These are a lot larger and danglier than I expected for them to be.  They almost remind me of the earrings from the 1980's.  Unfortunately most people don't realize that they are DNA and instead think they are just twisty dangly earrings.  The pair I have of the "Science symbol" are instantly recognizable to people.  I perhaps should have gone with the neuron ones instead.

Still these are great earrings.  And who cares if the people around you don't notice that you have DNA dangling from your ears - YOU know it.
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Good only as a hisorical curiosity.  This book does not have the modern Genealogy standards of proof, or science, to back up its assumptions and claims.  Moreover, in the case of Warren G. Harding, its has been proven through autosomal DNA tests taken by multiple members of The Harding family (via the president's brother's lines and through the children of Harding's only proven child, Elizabeth Blaesing) that the percentage of DNA from Africa is less than 1%.  This is inline with results with most people with European and middle eastern ancestry, per AncestryDNA, 23 and Me, and FTDNA.  So if we use the one drop rule, then every president before Barack Obama and even Trump, most likely is black.  Using that logic, the book is not only innaccurate, but its purpose for being ceases to exist.
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This book reveals a sophisticated understanding of how scientists come up with formal explanations and definitions. Inevitably, as the technologies and observations progress, yesterday's concepts become outmoded and, eventually, restrictive. Evelyn Fox Keller explains how this progression occurred (and still takes place) in our understanding of biological inheritance. She displays a fine sense of the motivations behind pre-DNA theoretical postulates that no longer make sense in light of modern sequence data. Altogether, a splendid account of the gene theory, its problems, and indications of where new concepts are likely to arise.
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The author brings us up to date on the latest insights that research into DNA has provided into the understanding of human development. One of the most interesting revelations is that given the small number of human beings in the past, each of us has received repeated chunks of the same DNA from a limited pool. As a result we are all related to each other. Instead of a family tree, we should look at the past as a kind of mesh of interactions. The idea of race is mostly a delusion. The differences between people are transitional, and in fact, white Northern Europeans are a recent manifestation that only emerged a few thousand years ago. The author describes all this with surgical precision, a healthy sense of humor and an obvious appreciation of the beauty of what he is witnessing  that at times is nearly poetic.
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With a primary field in psychology and a basic grounding in neurological development, I realized while writing a paper for inclusion in a collection on scientific ethics that I knew little concerning "unintended results" in"germ-line editing of genes". This led me eventually to James D. Watson as a major contributor the the field in the past 50years. He writes clearly, personally, and precisely about this very complex subject.
Other reviews describe various aspects of the book. This one focuses on the end of the book where he describes the response he receives to an article he wrote for a prominent German newspaper titled "The Ethic of the Genome". He argues simply that when genome research  informs a pregnant woman that her fetus has Tay-Sachs (TS) disease, an incurable and lethal genetic disorder that will allow her child no more than 4 years of life, the diagnosis is actually offered compassionately so that if she decides to proceed, what is ahead for her is no surprise.
Granting German fear of Hitler's genetic plans for a "master race", it is still surprising how negative his article is received by government officials, physicians, and theologians. Even German scientists are silent, leaving him out on a limb. One theologian describes Watson's paper as an "Ethics of Horror", when all Watson is attempting to say is that love is a product of not just our religious but genetic history. He ends his book with quoting the Apostle Paul on love, adding that a secular Paul (perhaps Watson himself would fit?) would argue that love may be the greatest gift of genes to our humanity. Hostile responses to his paper, among other things, did nothing to reconcile scientific and philosophical and eligious ethics. His response does not reflect Nassim Taleb's comment that different approaches often mount the same mountain by different routes.
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Cavalli-Sforza holds the world's most politically incorrect job: tracing the origins of genetic differences among races and ethnic groups. Not surprisingly, C-S loudly asserts a series of pious cover stories about the meaning of his work, even though the wonderful data he accumulates subverts fashionable ideas like "There is no such thing as race." Obviously, people can't agree on exactly how many races there are, what to call them, or precisely who is in them. But the same criticisms can also be made of the concept of "extended family," but that doesn't mean extended families don't exist. The reason for the similarity between the concepts of race and extended family is simply because races are extremely extended families.
Similarly, C-S likes to say there is far more differentiation within groups than between groups. Of course, in reality it all depends on which trait you are talking about. Consider the job of identifying individuals for police investigations. Fingerprint variation is largely individual, skull shape is a mixture of individual and racial, while the general appearance of a living person (the gestalt of skin color, hair, facial features, etc.) is largely racial.
Fortunately, C-S doesn't seem to take his politics seriously, so he plows ahead with the world's best research into genetic differences.
C-S's genetic diagrams point to a reasonably coherent 5 or 6 race model: Indo-Europeans (Caucasians); sub-Saharan Africans; Amerindians (related to Asians of course); Papuan/Australians; and East Asians, who can either be thought of as one race or as two divided into Northeast Asians and Southeast Asians. There are of course a number of smaller groups that don't fit the model particularly well.
This book, written for a general audience, is especially larded with political correctness. His more technical and more expensive books are more informative.
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Who can resist the faces?  Who can resist the photos?  Answer:  No one with a heart that is still beating!
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Too many autistic, Neurotypical and parents will lie , cheat, steal, push , shove, and other unethical characteristics to be on top of the Autism world.  Most these people never had any source of achievement and believe if you attack others and destroy them, they as the attacker will come out on top.  They lack education or experience.. and involved in many shady deals.... Taylor's book spoke the unspoken.  I thank him for bringing it to light and in the open so more can see how they are being used in many dishonest Non Profits. Few licensed psychologists assist for an image they never held professionally as well.  Victim type 2s do well in this area of eat or be eaten.
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You can never imagine the loneliness that a rare oddity of development can cause in a world that never perceives what you do instinctively.  The judgement, and labels a society places on others. Gifted Grownups awakened me to a path of  research leading to  Dabrowski, Simon Baron-Cohen, and Roman Krznaric's science which connected gaps in my own family history that  includes Autism, Giftedness and Asychonstic  Development. My own over-sensitivities that can over stimulate me to the point of fear and others to be puzzled.  Answers to why I can predict behaviors and patterns of thoughts as I watch a slight shift of doubt in eyes.  An odd trait causing others and myself to pull away, making isolation my norm or attempts to hinder my sensory input forcing myself to be blind to ease the emotional drain.

Geneticists will decide to eliminate or save this genetic trait, unfortunately in a world where technology is eliminating relationships and a society that begins to disconnect from others at younger ages, empathy is not required.  Einstein once stated "Man will need a significant new way of thinking, if it is to survive", rumored that he was distraught how his discoveries initiated a science to destroy people. This book is your first step if the concepts above seem to speak to you in a whisper.
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I've read a few books about Personalized Medicine including "The Language of Life" by Francis Collins. Misha Angrist provides a slightly different perspective on the topic as he describes his involvement in the Personal Genome Project. As medical providers slowly begin offering genotyping services, there are issues about genetic privacy and influence on family who don't want their information disclosed must be considered.
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How does anyone go about trying to explain the unexplainable?  How does a beautiful young woman using arsenic to stay young and attractive, who later becomes a kind and loving grandmother, start using arsenic on sick children and adults that results in their death?  These are some of the questions author Kay Murphy struggles to answer in her remarkable story, Tainted Legacy.  Scientists and psychologists have also been studying, for decades, how loving husbands, fathers, sons, wives, mothers, and daughters -- ordinary citizens -- became heartless killers in Hitler's Germany.  Bertha Gifford, the author's great grandmother and the subject of Kay Murphy's book, took the answer to her grave.  No single, profound explanation has emerged from countless testimonies during the Nuremberg trials, or from scientific experiments on what turns ordinary people to their dark side.  In her search to find answers, Kay Murphy lays out the facts of the case for and against Bertha in a straightforward, honest, and unemotional manner, drawing her own conclusions.  The author pursues this quest, in part, because she is concerned that whatever the cause may be, it might be in her DNA.  If it could be attributable to DNA, then I believe that same DNA is in all of us.  Ms. Murphy could have taken the easy way out by concealing the story of her great grandmother from her children and grandchildren, or by repudiating the accusers, but she chose to expose the raw, painful, and heartbreaking facts of the case.  I am a firm believer that the truth always creeps up through the cracks: the author's descendants would undoubtedly have come across the story of Bertha Gifford, their ancestor, eventually.  By bravely confronting and writing about the tragic story of her great grandmother Bertha,  Ms. Murphy has given her family a legacy of strength, acceptance, and resilience.  Kay Murphy is a gifted writer who has told a difficult story eloquently and with compassion, putting a human face on the great grandmother who may or may not have done the inexplicable.
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There's an amazing amount of information in our DNA - enough to describe a human being, for one thing.  But there's even more than that and Daviud Reich explains in this book how our DNA (and the DNA of our our long ago predecessors) encodes information about our past going back into the dimness of time.  And the stories hidden in there are truly remarkable - generations of humans sweeping back and forth across continents and leaving behind their traces in their own bones and in the genes of their descendants.
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Not exactly what I was expecting.  The author's explanation of dealing with the problems that confront getting a clean DNA sample I found interesting, as I had never considered how difficult such a task might be.  Well-written.
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Indeed, what is so scary about asking questions? The point of "Expelled" is that nothing should be so sacred that it can't stand scrutiny; that is, Darwin's theories on how life developed.

I wouldn't say Darwin's theories on how life was created, because Darwin never actually gets into how life came about. Ben Stein asks modern-day evolution proponents how they think life came about, first causes, and gets an amusing variety of answers: life piggybacked onto "crystals"; then there's my favorite, that aliens came here and spread their seed.

Uh huh. Aliens.

It amazes me the crap evolution proponents will believe, although if you look at hollywood, it's clear we do have aliens here now. The problem is that they aren't only NOT a superior race, they're mentally defective.

But I digress.

The main thrust of "Expelled" isn't proving that there's an Intelligent Designer as much as it is, why can't the questions be raised? Why do scientists who aren't in lockstep with the prevailing scientific ethos of the day be allowed to question Darwininian beliefs without paying for it by having their reputations intentionally smeared, and being banned from their jobs?

So...why? What happened to scientific inquiry, the idea of following an idea wherever it leads?

If you have an open mind, Stein and his documentary brings up some very interesting questions, questions that won't disappear when the film ends. I'd sure like to know the answers - not just if there is an Intelligent Designer, but why the scientific community is so AFRAID of anyone who dares to challenge their long-held beliefs.

Hmmm...it sure sounds like someone is insanely devoted to their religion, and I'm NOT referring to Stein, or ID proponents!