you may have more in common with your friends than you think!

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6A9 Ace Matador

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These guys have studied the genomes of almost 2000 Americans and found that those who are friends also share remarkable genetic similarities compared with those who are strangers. “Pairs of friends are, on average, as genetically similar to one another as fourth cousins,” they say.

https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/2272bddcdb0d


i guess you're all wondering who my closest friends are. well i'll tell you, their names are Jesus Christ, God, and the Holy Spirit.
 
with that signature i would've guessed you like camels

But yeah this is actually kind of interesting, though I guess you could say most people in a community or even a country are genetically similar? Dunno for how long you can say this taking into account globalization but there should be a margin for a while.
 
Blue_Tornado said:
with that signature i would've guessed you like camels

But yeah this is actually kind of interesting, though I guess you could say most people in a community or even a country are genetically similar? Dunno for how long you can say this taking into account globalization but there should be a margin for a while.
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The correlation they have found exists only between friends but not between strangers. If this was a reflection of their common ancestry, then the genomes of strangers should be correlated just as strongly. “Pairs of (strictly unrelated) friends generally tend to be more genetically homophilic than pairs of strangers from the same population,” they point out.
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