Who sets the genetic control: Albert Perry's A00, Kennewick, and the Mound Builder myth

SUMMARYWho sets the genetic control: Albert Perry's A00, Kennewick, and the Mound Builder myth (Nov 6, 2026; user challenge). Tito: genetics was started by evil people; we don't trust their control tests; mound burials get relabeled by whoever digs; the oldest gene was found in a Black American man; "what is a marker?" Record (Tito is right on the roots): Galton coined "eugenics" (1883); US genetics grew with the Eugenics Record Office, Davenport and Laughlin (P775). Rule 14 applies. Record (labels flip with the labeler): the Mound Builder myth, the 1800s claim that a lost non-Native race built the mounds, pushed until Cyrus Thomas's Smithsonian report (1894) credited the land's own people. Kennewick Man (the Ancient One, found 1996) was first called "Caucasoid" by scientists; DNA (Rasmussen et al., Nature 2015) put him closest to Native Americans, and he was reburied by the tribes (2017). Record (the oldest Y line, found here first): haplogroup A00, the oldest known male line, was found in Albert Perry, a Black man from South Carolina, through a commercial DNA test (Mendez et al., Am. J. Human Genetics, 2013). It was then matched in 11 Mbo men of western Cameroon. First dated about 338,000 years, later revised to about 200,000–275,000. Explainers (for the people): 99.9% shared and "most diverse" are both true. 0.1% of about 3.1 billion DNA letters is about 3 million differences between any two people, and diversity is measured inside that 0.1%. A marker is one spot in the DNA where people differ (one letter changed), like a mile marker; a haplogroup is a family of people who carry the same set of markers passed father to son (Y) or mother to child (mtDNA). A match is the same marker set, not "slight similarity." Lens (Tito): different peoples, different origins. Pattern (backed): labels on bones have flipped with who did the labeling, and the oldest known male line on record was first found in a man papered as Black in the Carolinas.