[quote author="dbandre" date="1222908285"][quote author="Mike Young" date="1222907744"][quote author="dbandre" date="1222907515"]
A gene needs to be expressed for one to get use out of it and expression of this gene means you might need to move to Jamaica.oh yeah, like Eugenics has been so successful every other time it’s been tried to implemented.
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Inger Miller…daughter of Jamaican sprint legend Lennox Miller ended up doing quite well for herself as an American born from a Jamaican parent.[/quote]
We have more people of Jamaican descent in the US than Jamaica has itself. In fact the Northeast of the US, particularly New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut should be the sprint capitol of the US based on genetics alone. Instead the best sprinters are spread out amongst California, Texas, and Florida.[/quote]They are all of West African descent so you’re point is moot. Plus I’m not saying that nurture just plays no part (that should be obvious from my blog). I’m just refuting your point that it isn’t the major reason.[/quote]
It’s not the major reason, having a gene is different from expressing the gene. 80% of Caucasians have the gene so you would think with a world population of nearly the same population that for 98 sprinters from west-African origins you would have 80 Caucasian sprinters. This is obviously not the case and even projected over 1 million participants it still would not be a significant factor in the US as both would have successful outliers and this is clearly not the case.