Nornagest comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 16, chapter 85 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nornagest 18 April 2012 09:08:05AM 3 points [-]

Genetic evidence can't show where your ancestors lived, but it can gesture furtively in one direction while mouthing "look over there". Even in hunter-gatherer populations, there's enough mobility that it shouldn't take anywhere near 22,000 years for African genes to make their way to Australia (or to wherever the proto-Australians were living at the time).

Comment author: Alsadius 18 April 2012 12:27:46PM 2 points [-]

There's a big difference between a few people making their way over and genes achieving fixation.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 18 April 2012 08:10:56PM 4 points [-]

I approve of your stealth xkcd reference.