Guyanese OnlineBarbados Consul Norman Faria passes
GUYANA’S HONORARY CONSUL to Barbados, Norman Faria, has died.
He was a patient at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) in Barbados over the last week in serious but stable condition. He died early this morning (May 25, 2010), reportedly from a “terminal illness”.
On behalf of all Guyanese living in Barbados, we wish to extend our deepest sympathy to Mr. Faria’s family.
A Distinguished Race – Episode 1 – What’s In a Race? Listen now (28 minutes)
Professor Steve Jones examines what race has meant in the past, and what it means today, delving into both the science and the sociology. Steve asks whether we have changed enough since humans first left Africa 60,000 years ago to create new races.
He explores how scientists have tried to split the human population into different categories, in the past, and now. What we view as different races is visible all around us. But when people who think they are of a certain ‘race’ have their DNA examined – they often have a shock.
Steve hears how science is using genealogy to combat racism.
With so much movement around the world and mingling of genes, Steve discusses whether the idea of race will finally disappear altogether.
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Professor Steve Jones steps boldly into the racial ring to discover whether the concept of race is relevant at all.
Our own faces give us hints of past lives who have shaped our early family tree.
Steve Jones goes on a trail to discover what genetics has to say about the common traits that allow racial groupings.
He talks to Professor Nina Jablonski of Penn State University, an expert on skin – particularly its colour; Professor Rick Sturm of Queensland University about eye colour; and he discovers how genetics determined the different hair types found around the world.
