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They were created by the process of natural selection and thus, are inherently absurd--driven by impulses that exist today only because they helped our ancestors transmit their genes.
"Do you know WHO your ancestors are and WHAT they did?"
"You ignore my successes, just as you ignored my ancestors' successes," he exploded at a harmless question.
"Why should whites who did not themselves discriminate against blacks be punished for what their or someone else's ancestors did?
Three clones from each population were picked randomly from platings of these cultures and frozen separately; each experiment therefore compares 36 clones (12 populations × 3 clones) with the two ancestors (Ara -and Ara +).