I am an O- and come from a Mom B - and my dad O-.
My brother and I have the same blood type. We are Russian ( born there and so were our parents)
I don't know but i get bit by mosquitoes, wish i was lucky as you guys.
Never had any major complication health wise ( other than seasonal flu). Dark hair, light green eyes and pale skin.

I was wondering - are there any asian people with negative blood? African?

Originally posted by Anonymous ATS

I was wondering - are there any asian people with negative blood? African?

Well, interestingly enough, Asians and Africans count for a very small percent for RH-negatives in comparition to for instance Europeans, so there is indeed a clear difference between ethnicities.

As someone else mentioned earlier, if the Rh negative factor in blood is evolutionary, yes it does affect life span.
In America, the average life span is 75 years. The key word being "average". In studies done on blood type and life span, people with type "O" blood tend to live into their 90's whereas people with type "AB" blood tend to die off in their 40's to 50's.

Dr Peter D'Adamo has carried on his father's 40 years of research into the subject of blood types and written several books regarding diets designed according to blood type specificity.

Having been on this diet for over 5 years (I'm AB-) I can attest to the drastic improvement in my overall health.

RHD-/+ is definitely a Hereditary Genetic Antigen (or lack thereof). My father is O-, my mother is O-, and I am O-, yet I am RHD--. As RHD- is recessive, that means both sides of my family passed on this recessive gene (my parents could have been +- and +- or +- and -- or -- and --.

(My daughter inherited our O- blood type, but she hasn't been tested for the presence of D antigens yet to determine if she is RHD- or RHD+.)

I guess I'm really at a loss as to why RHD- may be considered the next step in evolution. In all honesty it looks to be a genetic weakness if anything.

The poster who mentioned a possibility of a tie-in between RH- and Northern European Neanderthaloids cross-breeding with Neanderthals tens of thousands of years ago may not be espousing an entirely a far-fetched idea. Recent studies have shown a peaceful co-existence of our ancestors with our Neanderthal cousins contrary to the previous belief that our more diminutive Neanderthaloid ancestors wiped the Neanderthals out by war. It seems that the extinction of the Neanderthals was because the Agrarian based Neanderthaloids kept turning the Hunting Grounds of Neanderthals into farmland, driving them further and further north until they became extinct. However, it's not entirely out of the question that the two species, having peaceful relations, could have intermingled and reproduced offspring.

Such a theory would certainly explain a lot of things beyond just RHD- and the origin of the O blood-type.

As to lifespan based on blood-type, that is the first I've ever heard of such a thing, but I am highly interested as both sides of my family, going back over 15 generations have an average life span of 93 years.

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Im rh neg o as was my mother, i have a sister and a niece who are also neg. Does this only happen in generations? Why is there not more research done on this? I like to know where my blood type comes from. I have dark hair and hazel green eyes and have knowlege of whats coming how can this be? HELP!!