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Thank You, Frank
- Human Biology
- Wayne State University Press
- Volume 75, Number 4, August 2003
- p. 629
- 10.1353/hub.2003.0051
- Article
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Thank You, Frank
It was not the ploy of a crank,
Nor yet put forth as a prank;
To declare that clines
Contradict designs
Was quintessentially Frank.The forests of Africa's west
Put human wits to the test,
The perpetual shade
Of the openest glade
Made farming a problem at best.Now everyone fully agrees,
When farmers cut down the trees,
The puddles allowed
Bred bugs by the cloud
Which spread the lethal diesase.As Livingstone had said,
Those consequences led
The gene for S
To answer the stress
And follow malaria's spread.But the gene for S is just one,
And each other trait will run
On a separate course
To provide the source
Of the patternless picture that's done.Unrelated pressures call
Each adaptive trait to fall
In the separate clines
That selection defines;
So there are no races at all.
from C. Loring Brace
University of Michigan
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