But Iran (nor China for that matter) is not a low-technology country. At the Robocup, for example, they always had good scores, especially in the Robocup rescue contest. Embargoes harm their technology more than religion (to say the truth they're embargoed for that very purpose...). Curiously enough, none ever speaks about Saudi Arabia, that would be a much more fitting example.

T lst Grks nvntd vwls...

but they forgot the vowels!

As for East Africa, that is Ethiopia, their writing system is not older than Linear A, for sure.

Why do we need to rate researcher quality in the first place? To label a scientist as first grade, second grade, third grade? Can't we just rate every single research instead, we've got a lot of example of (so called) mediocre researchers that had a brilliant idea later in their life, while many young promising scientists produced very little after a good start.

I would not be so sure about this very subject. The European slave afflux was as much, if not more, consistent and surely more prolonged in Northern Africa than in Syria/Lebanon/Palestine, yet the usual modern Libyan or Tunisian is not whiter than a modern Syrian.

This is probably an Egyptian Jew of the I/II century AD from Fayum, he's not significantly darker than a typical Palestinian Arab, he is not even darker than a typical modern Egyptian Arab for that matter...

We can't know for sure. Judes are pretty white, many Levantines are pretty white, by the time Jesus was born there was a lot of Greek, Roman, Hittite and Galatian blood in the area. Arab and turkish invasions happened a few centuries later...

Brazil +India + Taiwan + Thailand = 1.5 billion population 1.5 billion population - Brazil - India - Taiwan = 70 million population That's correct for Thailand population.

Because that kind of theory is somewhat linked to racism, it's an offspring of the polygenist theory which was used by 19th century racists as a basis for their ideas. And as every reader of this thread now knows, just being a suspected racist is a capital crime. So better be not, that is the definition of political* correctness.

*politics is the art of keeping good social relations.

Stop with this non-sense, first of all single genesis is not more popular than multiple genesis, it all depends on the scientific field: e.g. in linguistic the majority favor the multiple genesis of the human language (though its evidence is scarce). Second, we were talking about origins, not genesis, those are different things: the first refers to the polygenist theory, the second to the multiregional theory (which is what challenges the out of africa theory today). Third, isn't this the best demonstration of what I was trying to say?

"He seems to challenge our established thought, God forbid, to the stake, to the stake that rabid unbeliever!"
That's not the best way to spread ideas and scientific reasoning, though it works (and that's what I was saying).

I'm not racist, nor paranoid, nor I think that there is some kind of big secret conspiracy. It's thanks to profound, intelligent, scientific rebuttals like yours that there are racists in this world.

That's obvious, however you might concur that:

*the vast majority of biologists believes in the Out of Africa theory, so trying to disprove that might reduce the budgets of those who review your articles, award you with a doctorate and so on...
*that kind of theory is more likely to spur those who think there are different human races or species, as you can deduce from this very thread.

Because it's the more politically correct theory about the human evolution. Politics matter.

Even Serbians with 30 years old soviet technology were able to detect US "stealth" bombers. Probably Russians by now could detect stealth fighters from the generation to come.

Fixed for ya and I agree: it's horseshit, XP and Win2000 basically shared the same kernel, Vista and 7 do the same. Then, the new features of Windows 6.1 were so groundbreaking that they were rightfully backported to Windows 6.0, through Platform Update and Platform Update Supplement. However i might concede that some drastic improvements like the "10px taller taskbar" or the "fade-in highlight effect when the user moves the mouse over" the start orb are still Windows 6.1 exclusive.

LOL what?

Quantum entanglement is the equivalent of magic.