India's caste system 'is thousands of years old', DNA shows


	India's caste system 'is thousands of years old', DNA shows

tabsey

9-27-2009 3:50 AM

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The caste system is a formalized version of our western cultures. We like to think that ours is more flexible, but that hope is rarely realized by people looking to go up the ladder.

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They found evidence of strong inbreeding leading to genetic groups that had 
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Most people had a mixture of genes from two ancient populations representing 
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