I find it amusing that people are negativly commenting about science on their computors, laptops and cell phones...devices created by scientists. Oh, the irony.

Do these dark personality traits also wear a lot of orange makeup and wear ridiculously long red ties? Just wondering.

> their research was focused on the animal reservoirs in Europe and the fact that rats are slow-moving mammals

Huh? The rats around these parts are very quick. Maybe American rats are much quicker than European rats.

Sadly, slavery is ancient. Slavery has been know in every century in which the conquest and invasion of one nation has overtaken another.

The horrors of slavery are quite acceptable to the Biblical god. American slave owners used Leviticus 25:44-46 to justify owning other human beings.

>“‘Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly."

Dr. Henry Louis Gates discussed slavery among African tribes in his documentary on Africa and was highly criticized for mentioning it. It shouldn't suprise anyone though. It seems no culture is immune to this disgusting practice. American Indigenous tribes also held captured enemy war slaves long before the Europeans showed up. Humans are horrible to each other sometimes.

I haven't read the study yet but I can tell you one thing, my daughter is transgender and she's happy as hell that she lives in Portland Oregon and not Florida or Missouri.

I think it was a typo....he meant to say "floundered" America.

Would you expect their hands to be down at their toes? It's a simple matter human anatomy.

I have often wondered this very thing when reading some of the population numbers in the Bible. For instance, the enslaved Hebrew Exodus population was supposedly 600,000 men plus their families. This takes the number upwards of over a million and a half people to almost 2 million people. It's been estimated that Egypt's population was around 5 million people (I can't remember where I read this, sorry) so this means that the population of the slaves was around 1/3 of the population.

There is zero evidence of the Exodus, it's a national foundation myth written centuries later but the number of people the Bible alledges were killed in battles or living in cities seems to be highly embellished. Population studies are hard to come by when trying to compare these old stories to realistic population numbers.