The Scotsman

Here’s a gender

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This discovery based on incontrove­rtible DNA evidence shows what a lot of rubbish nationalis­ms are, based as they are on supposed difference­s.

Soracte As it has been 99.9 per cent establishe­d that earliest man came from the African Rift Valley is it hardly surprising that they had dark skin. Apart from those with very fair skin, most of us go darker when exposed to the sun so presumably light skin colouring is fairly recent in evolutiona­ry terms.

Aristotle Dinnae be daft, it’s cause they didnae wash in them days.

Joe Smith Are people paid to bring us informatio­n like this? Seriously, who cares what colour the person was? Were they also gay? Maybe they were bisexual? Were they atheist or religious and how many gods did they believe in? Were they vegans? C’mon, why do we need to know this, is it even relevant?

mediaone Must have been a lot more sun then.

Johnenosee What colour will the last Briton be ? When you have to legislate equal representa­tion you have lost the inherent argument of equality based on ability and merit. As

Chris Cooper Mitchell Affirmativ­e action didn’t work in South Africa so why would it work here? We just have to maintain an environmen­t where women

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