{"id":31989,"date":"2011-02-27T16:43:36","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T16:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/brazilians-more-european-than-not-gene-expression\/"},"modified":"2011-02-27T16:43:36","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T16:43:36","slug":"brazilians-more-european-than-not-gene-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/brazilians-more-european-than-not-gene-expression.php","title":{"rendered":"Brazilians, more European than not? | Gene Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/26919_brazil.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10075\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/26919_brazil.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"191\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><em>Credit: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pmsol3.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/10\/world-of-averages-populations-of-the-americas\/\">Dragon Horse<\/a><\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pmsol3.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/10\/world-of-averages-populations-of-the-americas\/\"> <\/a><\/p><p><em><strong>The Pith:<\/strong> Brazil is often portrayed as the second largest black nation in the world, after Nigeria. But it turns out that the majority of the ancestors for non-white Brazilians are European. <\/em><\/p><p>One of the more popular sources of search engine traffic to this website has to do with the population genomics of Latin America. For example, my post showing that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2009\/12\/how-argentina-became-white\/\">Argentina<\/a> is not quite as European a country as it likes to consider itself is regularly cited in online arguments (people of various &ldquo;persuasions&rdquo; are invested in the racial status of the Argentine people). But last week in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info:doi\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0017063?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+plosone\/GeneticsandGenomics+(PLoS+ONE+Alerts:+Genetics+and+Genomics)#pone-0017063-g001\">PLoS ONE<\/a> a paper looking at the patterns of ancestry in the Brazilian population came to a somewhat <em>inverse<\/em> conclusion as to the self-conception or perception of the preponderant racial identity of that nation. Let me quote from the conclusion of the paper:<\/p><p><em>Among the actions of the State in the sphere of race relations are initiatives aimed at strengthening racial identity, especially &ldquo;Black identity&rdquo; encompassing the sum of those self-categorized as Brown or Black in the censuses and government surveys. <strong>The argument that ...<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/26919_-26kfZryuhw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/strong><\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/26919_nzew4t5Ekvg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: Dragon Horse The Pith: Brazil is often portrayed as the second largest black nation in the world, after Nigeria. But it turns out that the majority of the ancestors for non-white Brazilians are European. One of the more popular &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/brazilians-more-european-than-not-gene-expression.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}