Why We're 99.9% Genetically Identical, Explained By Science & History

[@junepaul7843]

i came from a mixed family. i remember being little and my parents explaining to me that not all families are mixed and what racism was. i will never forget that talk. i literally said to my dad that racism sounds dumb like it did not make sense to my child brain that people would think that way. a child couldnt make sense of why someone would feel or think that way and felt that is was a stupid thing to think... that pretty much sums it up. even as a child i thought and felt that racism made no dang sense. i have alot of different european countries in my background but also african and native american in me too. im like 8 different things and i think thats awesome. it doesnt make sense to me that people who were born in the same state and country as me would label themselves as black or white or whatever. yall from baltimore or yall from maryland yall is my family foreal. if you a human being you my family. i love you all. stop labelling yourselves. you are not black or white or brown or yellow. you are a human being and it dont got to be no more than that. every time you say you are black or white or whatever you perpetuate the divide. stop making the distinction

[@NeuroEverything]

That's a pretty great way of looking at things. Unfortunately, I feel that there are just so many people who have some interest in sowing division between us (whether it be for monetary or some other gain)... and so we end up in this world that we're all in... obsessing about imaginary differences and losing track of the bigger picture.

[@johnross2924]

You say you are 8 different things and that's awesome, then you say we are all the same! How can you be 8 different things and all the same?

[@shanedavison7473]

That's great and all but discussing yourself is kind of irrelevant in a scientific discussion...lol

[@Aisha-721]

I read that humans and chimps have 98% DNA in common.

[@hadleymon1303]

@@Aisha-721 chimps have 65% of the 3 million genes we have. Telomeres are shaped different and on it goes. It's not even close.

[@bcfr66]

Thanks! Very interesting. I appreciate your theory and willingness to share it.

[@NeuroEverything]

Thank you and I’m glad you liked the theory - even if it’s a tad bit out there!

[@Jack_denslowStyle01]

thank that is true we were from africa

[@fredbees3035]

I especially appreciate when you say we are all africans (and i'm an old white person with green eyes and light hair). This is so true and must be repeated many times considering the black times we're living in. Thanks a lot, go on doing such interesting and honest videos! Happy new year!

[@NeuroEverything]

"Black times" is a phrase I will steal... because I feel it amply describes this timeline we're in. I swear it is so exhausting and scary existing right now, seeing people turn fact into fiction and fiction into fact. A statement like, "we all originate from Africa" wouldn't have been a controversial thing to say (AT ALL) a decade ago, but I guess now it is(?). I guess we just have to put up the best fight we can against this absurd campaign of misinformation. Thank you for the lovely words btw... I really appreciate it more than you can imagine. Happy New Year to you too!

[@annepoitrineau5650]

Modern people forget the huge casualties of the past. What applies to endangered species applies to us: you need some critical number of individuals as well as a critical level of genetic diversity for a group to survive. This is what happened to Neanderthals: they had fertility issues, and the groups lost critical population levels as well as genetic diversity. They were not out-competed by homo sapiens: Eurasia is bigger than the kalahari (=France+Italy) where 90 000 Khoisans are thriving, while Neanderthals+Sapiens never exceeded 75 000 across Eurasia. The miracle is in fact that they met at all. Once they did, they mated, and that preserved neanderthal genes. Also, you might add that hunter gatherer populations grow very slowly as they do not have farmers' high birth rates (another thing that modern humans forget). But...if you look at how long Neanderthals/Denisovans endured, and also face the fact that we are having fertility issues now, on top of destroying the conditions that made the planet inhabitable, we might not endure as long as Neanderthals. As for having sex with Chimps etc: humans are very versatile in that respect...having sex with animals is mentioned (and forbidden ) in the Bible, and we know some lonely shepherds...Anyway, humans might have also got herpes from eating chimps, which would entail getting very close as you butcher etc.

[@MichaelAllan01]

You overlooked Why we have fertility issues Today-compared to (which is 100% conjecture) Why they ellegedly had "fertility issues". Neandertals had such a long run because they were not being chemically nuetered by "required birth injections" & our modern poisens by food preservatives (especially America). With there being some 20 odd sub-human species sharing the same sperm count/chromosone counts they were ensured of genetic diversity-which of course contributed to thier survival. WHY they died out has never ever-ever anywhere been determined/published, proven or even seriously speculated about by any recognized scientific study, so please revise that presumptive assertion as beliefs are NOT FACTS & to present them as such is the equivelent of a lie. Modern humans co-existed with many of the sub-human species for as long as 200,000 YEARS. Obviously some Areas co-existed more successfully than others and obviously the Most Intelligent Groups eventually dominated the ones of lesser intelligence. As has been proven repeatedly by history humans always separate into castes & subjugate the greater populace of lower IQ'S (which ALWAYS reproduce at higher rates with total disregard to sustainability) so it stands to reason-but not fact- that the ruling class would devise means to limit or eliminate the "inferior" castes/races/species because they represent a serious threat to the ruling class by thier increasing numbers And a threat to the entire kingdom because they'll "eat themselves out of house & home from thier sheer lack of discipline & habit of over indulgence." NOTHING but poisen kills sperm motility! If you recall history humans have systematically Killed GROUPS of people deemed inferior, alcoholics, addicts, retarded, insane, differing religious beliefs, different ethnicities, etc. Nowhere in HISTORY has any species Ever been recorded as having plummeting sperm counts-until humans- beginning in 1970. Why? "Mandatory injections" at birth. Neandertals had a multi-million year run.......there wasn't a thing wrong with thier sperm count pal~

[@annepoitrineau5650]

@@MichaelAllan01 You are correct: our fertility issues are very different form Neanderthals', but the fact remains that we do have these. I also agree that we have not determined for sure why Neanderthals died out, but a lot points at fertility issues. Just google it. I am basing my theory (and others are basing it on the evidence of neanderthal remains) on what happens to animal populations: if you go beneath a critical number of individuals and genetic diversity, you are in trouble. We are able to bring animal populatins from the brink because we intervene quite vigorously, but there was ot anybody there to do this for nanderthals. I competely disagree with your theory regarding mandatory injections. By the way, there was nothing wrong with sperm count in the past? We would not know as sperm has not been counted until quite recently, but infertility is not a modern issue and is mentioned in history/the Bible and before. Your eugenicists theories are also very dubious and shows you have not actually studied the evolution of mankind. Let's recap a few undebatable points: 1)Neanderthals were obvioulsy very good at using the resources of their environment, else they would not have endured longer than we have so far. 2) are we more intelligent? The way we are depleting the planet and creating poisons that impact us seriously makes me doubt this. We never seem to ponder the consequences of our actions, and your criticism of vaccinations (which I disagree with, but no matter) actually hints the same. 3)When Neanderthals and humans were both inhabiting Eurasia, there were never more than 80 000 individuals of both species. Stumbling upon each other was a miracle which seems to have taken place in the levant, as it is, and was then too, a bit of a geographical bottleneck. 4) Neanderthals knew the terrain way better than Sapiens. If they wanted to avoid meeting them, they could. This is the reason why the Welsh, Pashtos, Basques (and other first nations) can still be found in the most inhospitable parts of the area which was invaded by newcomers. 5)Both Neanderthals and Sapiens were hunter gatherers. These populations are seasonal nomads (unless climate change causes them to explore further) and grow very slowly (the saying goes "One in the arms, one held by hand" referring to children). When a group becomes too big for local resources, it splits. However, if there is a forest fire, a flood, hunters get hurt, an epidemic etc, the group might suddenly become too small to sustain itself. If they are lucky, they find another group and join them. Most Neanderthal archeology seems to point at small bands who were very close genetically, which is not a good thing. Google it.

[@gerryatrix74]

​@@MichaelAllan01did neanderthals support abortion as a right?

[@annepoitrineau5650]

Thank you so much. Reallly good video. For me, this needs to be the next big area of research: bringing together all migrations with climate or weather/geological events. I worked with immigrants for over 10 years. Nobody leaves home that easily. It is risky, you will need to find your bearings etc etc. Hunter/gatherers are nomadic in a limited way: they tend to move cyclically and come back to the same areas with the seasons, when nature has re-stocked. Moving away in a large group=famine or great danger. Considering how small populations were then, it is unlikely they were confronted with a Hitler type looking for lebensraum. So, climate or cataclysm is it. I agree with you about fire.

[@xxxyz1004]

Very interesting. Found you for the first time and found your video informative.

[@ItsNoCoincidence]

I appreciate how real/genuine you are being. Also, the fact you seem to be patient and don't shy away from say F whenever you want. That's some of the best shit bc (1 ex:) it's coming from a real place. 😂👌

[@villhelm]

that tiny difference has MASSIVE effects in the real world. Look at the difference between a pygmy and an Icelandic strongman, or Usain Bolt and a female Han Chinese. Just google IQ map of the world.

[@lencox2x296]

The tiny 0.1% is still a difference in absolute numbers allowing for the genenic variation between say two random individuals

[@yeahaboutthatthough3656]

Yes and no. Yes, small genetic variations in a handful of genes can result in distinct traits like skin tone, height, or athletic performance. However, these traits are also significantly influenced by environmental, cultural, and nutritional factors. No, because complex characteristics like intelligence or strength aren’t dictated by any single gene; they’re shaped by a mix of genetic and external factors. Despite outward differences like race or physical appearance, humans are more than 99% genetically identical. Populations may differ in certain traits on average, but fundamentally, our DNA-and what makes us human-is remarkably uniform. Pygmies and Icelandic strongmen, for instance, are far more genetically alike than what the common person's "common sense" would tell them about these two groups.

[@villhelm]

@@yeahaboutthatthough3656 this is disingenuous. That 1% difference has massive effects in the real world and differences between groups on a population wide level create extreme differences at a societal level. Just get chat GPT to list the top 200 inventions and intellectual achievements of the last 300 years by nationality. This is no accident and is a result of the specific genetic traits of that group. If you're about to say it's culture, culture is downstream from race, not upstream. Different environmental selection pressures create different genetic patterns in different regions which aren't limited to physical traits but group temperament as well. feedback loops between the culture and the organism create unique traits that aren't found in every population.

[@yeahaboutthatthough3656]

@@villhelm Temperament? Please. What's disingenuous is the white supremacist brain rot that conjures up the delusion that skin color somehow dictates temperament. As if ripping a continent apart for its natural resources-and removing 20 million people before the transatlantic slave trade was banned-has all the seriousness of a dog competition. Let me remind you: all humans are Homo sapiens, no matter the phenotype or skin color. The sheer audacity of pretending the disproportionate number of white inventors isn't because of centuries of colonization and exploitation but some fairy tale about "superior genetics"? That's rich. Also, how many inventors would Europe have produced if the roles were reversed...if Asians had stormed in, pillaged, purchased 20 million Europeans, banned reading and writing, and decreed their descendants were born automatic slaves and deprived of property and rights for 12 generations while exploiting them for 400 years of free labor? Exactly. Spare me.

[@annepoitrineau5650]

IQ maps of the world are completely discredited as it has been proven that, since IQs are designed by people in a given cultural context, with a given and raather homogenous academic cursus, IQ tests are all biased to favour individuals from the same environment. How would you do with your Westernised IQ, if you had to survive in a south American jungle?

[@dunique26]

Wow, not one comment from the church folks, impressive.

[@BELLATracyBell]

Alkebulan is the name of Africa before it was colonised . I believe we human genetics started there and yeah cuzzies what’s up

[@misslayer999]

I just started the video and its awesome already! I love how you immediately called out their bullshit, this is going to be a good one💚

[@NeuroEverything]

Thank you! I like to say that calling out bullshit is my favourite past hobby. Hope you liked the rest of the video and found it informative :)

[@orionxtc1119]

His videos are BS..eminent Russian and Chinese geneticists have refuted all those propaganda therories you promote...

[@orionxtc1119]

@@NeuroEverything Your videos are BS

[@Motionless_Puppet]

Wouldn't the Toba thing affect all animals dna in the same area? Why just humans?

[@NeuroEverything]

Great question. I actually wanted to mention that when I was writing the script for the video, but I think I got distracted by the next thing I wanted to talk about and never got around to it (sorry about that btw). To answer your question… we do find that a lot of apex predators, like tigers, have less than expected mitochondrial genetic diversity coalescing back to the Mount Toba Eruption. Not so much other animals, however, though the evidence may be there and we might not be aware of it, as many animals genetic diversities are understudied. So, in short, you wouldn’t expect all animals to be affected-mostly those at the top of their food chains, which makes sense giving how the animals at the top tend to be the ones with the smallest populations anyway and are often the most energy inefficient… making them the most vulnerable to a population crisis and bottleneck caused by an eruption like Toba. Please let me know if you have anymore questions :)

[@Motionless_Puppet]

@ Thank you for answering that. Could it be possible-if we shift our perceptive from men to women-that female sexual selection could have influenced these genetic bottlenecks?

[@NeuroEverything]

No worries. That’s a pretty hard question to answer tbh because there are some things that we will need to figure out first before we’re able to answer this question. For example, while we may be living in a heavily patriarchal and largely monogamous society today… I don’t think it’s wise to assume that ancient humans lived the same way. There is some evidence to suggest that our ancient ancestors were not always monogamous and were also more egalitarian than we are today… both of which would really affect how sexual selection worked 70,000 or 900,000 years ago… impacting genetic diversity in ways that we might not expect if we carry on with our assumptions from modern times. In a polygamous ancient human society, females would have exercised more choice over who to mate with. This should help maintain female genetic diversity, but female genetic diversity was never really vulnerable in the first place-except in the event of some global crisis. I see it going both ways to be honest. It’s entirely possible that polygamy and egalitarianism would have led to more males receiving more opportunities, allowing their genetic diversity to be maintained across generations. It’s also possible that greater female sexual autonomy would translate to ancient female humans gravitating towards a minority of males… preferring them to the rest. Hence, reducing overall male genetic diversity. There is some evidence that male chimpanzee genetic diversity is greater than in humans and chimpanzees are well known to be polygamous… so that would support the former-rather than the latter conclusion. Horses, on the other hand… would support the latter conclusion as mares engage in very concentrated breeding behaviours in the wild… though I’m not entirely sure if that’s even relevant to humans and our evolution. It’s also important to remember that existing social dynamics will most likely collapse in the event of a population crisis. Ancient female humans may have changed their behaviour, becoming more or less sexually selective, in the aftermath of the Toba Eruption, for example… On the one hand, a population crisis may have made mates more rare, reducing sexual selection. On the other hand, you need to remember that each pregnancy would have carried serious risk on the mother’s life… so in the event of a population crisis caused by some global catastrophe… an ancient female human may turn to being more sexually selective… choosing only the best “quality” males available to her and reducing male genetic diversity. This is a pure selfish gene interpretation though. Unfortunately, there are just too many unknowns to for me to give an answer I can be confident of. Sorry about that.

[@Motionless_Puppet]

No problem! I wanted to hear your perspective. I have a working thesis and am in the process of writing a book on this subject. Here’s a summary of my 160,000-word manuscript: I believe that humans are inherently tournament species, but culturally, we tend to act like pair-bonding species. In other words, while human sexual selection leans toward polyamory, we often adapt ourselves to be less polyamorous.

[@NeuroEverything]

Sounds great... yea... there is plenty of evidence to support humans being polyamorous in ancient times... it might be interesting to explore what motivated this transition and the kind of obstacles stood against that transition. I read a paper a while back that suggested the transition happened because females wanted the adult males in the group to form stronger social bonds with any children she has, offering protection against aggressive adult males in the group... and effectively preventing a situation like the one seen in polar bears from happening. Good luck on your book and let me know if you need anything :)

[@anttisalminen1110]

They are human beings, that should explain quite a lot!

[@alanlang2756]

Hello Sir, I find this subject extremely interesting. One question that arises for me is that I do not understand what sort of evolutionary process could cause the fusion of two separate chromosomes into one. It seems to be a very complex process not easily explained. Could you give me some insight into how this could possibly happen. Also do we know if the Herpes virus originally developed in Chimps alone or does it have some other origin. We must keep in mind that some culturally unrestrained human males will copulate with anything that walks. Regards.

[@NeuroEverything]

Hi there. Chromosome fusion events are actually not that unusual. It is estimated that 1 in every 1,000 babies born today will have some kind of fusion event. The issue is that these chromosome fusion events are unfavourable, as they can reduce fertility and will make it difficult for the zygote formed to divide, as it will have an unequal number of chromosomes from each parent. That's kind of what I'm suggesting in the video. That this chromosome fusion event really hindered our ancestor's ability to reproduce, resulting in a population collapse that lasted until numbers of our ancestors (the ones with the 46 chromosomes) recovered enough to allow for successful population recovery. It is believed that HSV-2 evolved from ChHV. So, the chimpanzees had ChHV for millions of years and it was likely acquired by ancient humans around 1.6 million years ago (estimated range of 1.4 to 2.1 mya).

[@alanlang2756]

@NeuroEverything Thankyou for responding so quickly. I understand now, relatively common but takes 117.000 years to be successful 🤔. Fits the picture nicely. This is the kind of event that could drive the evolution of human intelligence if one considers Kevin Layland's concept of innovators and copiers. I see that the Herpes situation is not unusual, just disturbing circumstances. Thankyou very much for your reply. I have subscribed and look forward to future insights.

[@NeuroEverything]

No worries. Really glad you enjoyed the video and to have you on board! Hope you continue to enjoy the videos I put out and feel free to ask me any questions anytime :)

[@dunique26]

Ain't that the truth 😅 (the part about men)

[@solidus1995]

Aren't we like 60% genetically related to bananas

[@AldrinAlbano]

I like the way you immediately cleaned the fact table from the racists and white supremacists out there. YES, we ALL originated from Africa!! The archaeological and DNA evidence, like you mentioned, is UNDENIABLE!! Thank you for this.

[@NeuroEverything]

You’re most welcome! I’m glad to be of service. Hope you enjoyed the video and thank you for the really sweet words. Ngl it’s comments like yours that keep me motivated to make these videos, so thank you for making me smile too :)

[@villhelm]

Yet we have different admixtures of denisovan, Neanderthal and other hominids. West Africans for example have up to 19% 'ghost' DNA from an unknown archaic hominid. The idea that we're all the same is literally nothing more than liberal propaganda of the most idiotic kind. You don't need to be white supremacist to say this. Would a white supremacist say that Asians or Jews have higher IQ than whites or that Black west Africans are better sprinters or East Africans are the best long distance runners or that there are skeletal, skull, developmental and hormone differences between African, Asian and European populations Pretty dumb assertion to make that simply to recognise obvious genetic differences in populations is somehow 'white supremacy'. Go to any university in China and they will teach this stuff as just normal - its only in the politically correct west that people try and dismiss reality for political reasons.

[@BillyThetit]

This is silly. Genetically we are also 60 % identical to cabbage and 99 % identical to apes. That 0,1 % difference between people makes a big difference.

[@paulonunes2156]

You are right about the cabbage, but you are not right about the chimpanzee. The argument about the chimpanzee was made when genome mapping had not yet been completed. Today we know that the value is around 97%, which is a big difference.

[@brendaevans1378]

Now what you are saying is silly 🤔

[@brendaevans1378]

GOD created man in His image & we are all one big family 🤷🏼

[@avigreen3342]

Culture is the biggest difference, not genetics.

[@jwatt1995]

⁠no, we evolved.

[@EmanM45]

One blood-one race

[@And_stuff8]

For the algorithm

[@NeuroEverything]

Thanks! Really appreciate your support and hope you enjoyed the video :)

[@K-Man-k5n]

Al Gore Rhythm!

[@And_stuff8]

@K-Man-k5n are you claiming I'm aiming ? Cause my circuits would disagree

[@QMaxwellLang]

Can you explain the fact that "Laminin" is the key structure in every living animal.Which is shaped like a cross and we know what the cross represents.

[@Nitzpitz]

Great video!

[@NeuroEverything]

Thank you! Really appreciate it and glad you enjoyed the video!

[@TheNewYear75]

great stuff

[@NeuroEverything]

Thank you! Really glad you found the science in the videos as interesting as I find it! Thank you for watching :)

[@joaquimbelbut4829]

Xenofobia explica tudo.

[@NeuroEverything]

Probably true.

[@annepoitrineau5650]

It explains refusing to have an African grandma and grandad.

[@andriidovzhenko6583]

not bad, not bad

[@NeuroEverything]

Thank you!

[@brianlewis5692]

Mount Ves-A-vius?

[@alchang1515]

Well, give the guy a credit for spelling Toba correctly😂

[@____2080_____]

15:15 yes you’re right about this idea speculation you have jumping tracks 🤔😑

[@____2080_____]

16:59 actually, that doesn’t rule it out. It’s already known that mitochondrial DNA is less prone to mutation than the regular DNA. Just as we can look at today to see that many industrial chemicals have far more adverse effects to men then it does to mitochondria DNA.We could’ve had some environmental issue, specifically radiation in our environment due to some celestial component that could’ve been the factor behind this.

[@____2080_____]

17:54 this is a more convincing argument to be sure Does it hold up to male populations across the planet or only in certain regions? Often, these studies, leave that art and take one region and it’s cultural aspects and apply it everywhere

[@____2080_____]

20:34 I would take what you’re saying at this point and speculate that humanity have certain inherited extinction fears. It will be interesting for someone to even go down the dark side of various rapid holes in human psychology to see how the rise of religion, the rise of corporatism, the rise of feudal systems and slavery, morphing into citizenship and the various social structures, allowing for societies to create elites and social cast structures to further this discussion. There’s a deep psychological component to it that involves the rise of western religions, and how those forces essentially took over the world. The subjects should be addressed through the same scientific rigor that your channel is showing. It doesn’t have to be you, but it would be interesting to address it in the same rigor rather than through the ideology.

[@ExtraDiyTips]

So "There is more genetic diversity between africans then there is genetic diversity between europeans and asians with africans", is what you just said Hashim. 🤔😂 We have eyes my man, and the point is not racism, its just people are different and it is fine. There are black people who are great members of societies but some bad, there are white people that are the worst members of society and some are good. Colour does not matter but to play it out that we are the same, excuse me but it is just plain BS.

[@mariannetiel9552]

How about genes from women? Did i miss something ?

[@johnross2924]

Why has the continent of Africa stayed very much 3rd world? Yet those that left Africa have made the developed world modern and developed with all of the amazing technologies that have been developed over the centuries? It makes more sence to say everything came out of great Britain!

[@dunique26]

No! it doesn't make more sense to LIE and say everything started in Britain. In actually It was the Moor's (if u don't know who the Moor's are, google it)who taught Europeans about hygiene and about bathing. Africa has been and still is colonized in some part. People come in took the resources and took the gains to their country. They could care less where the resources came from, and about giving back to the people or their land. At this very moment there are loads of unused clothing along with electrical component landing on some shore in africa, people treat that continent like shyt. Hopes this simple answer helped you some, want to know more then a library, my bad most have no idea what a library is. Google would probably be a easier resource for gaining knowledge.

[@alchang1515]

You've never heard of China, and surely can only speak English😝 Speaking of racism...

[@rwhitaker]

Just not factual, convenient sure, makes you feel better if you’re from Britain sure but STILL factually and historically inaccurate…. :)

[@Soulstride]

Aah so, the lying phase has started again.

[@orionxtc1119]

Your videos are absoluteky BS.... Eminent Russian and Chinese geneticists have refuted all those propaganda therories you promote...

[@francisgalton2678]

Untrue

[@Gary-k2g]

His theory is out of date

[@dunique26]

Explain? You cant just throw one word out there, when theres a 21 min long explanation of why this is facts. Just cause u want something to be not be true, then it shall be untrue. Suck it up butter cup, africa is where we started and homsapiens was having sex with gorillas. The homosapiens that were coming back into africa, the lighter toned ones. 😅😅