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White Europeans evolved only ‘5,500 years ago’
The Sunday Times ^ | August 30, 2009 | Jonathan Leake

Posted on 08/30/2009 10:40:35 AM PDT by decimon

White Europeans could have evolved as recently as 5,500 years ago, according to research which suggests that the early humans who populated Britain and Scandinavia had dark skins for millenniums.

It was only when early humans gave up hunter-gathering and switched to farming about 5,500 years ago that white skin began to be favoured, say the researchers.

This is because farmed food was deficient in vitamin D, a vital nutrient. Humans can make this in their skin when exposed to sunlight, but dark skin is much less efficient at it.

In places such as northern Europe, where sunlight levels are low, the ability to make vitamin D more efficiently could have been crucial to survival.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Agriculture; Food; Health/Medicine; History; Science
KEYWORDS: agriculture; animalhusbandry; aryaninvasion; aryans; europe; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; huntergatherers; indusvalley; indusvalleyscript; savedthebestforlast; vitamind; worldhistory
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To: John S Mosby
Well a fight IS what you should get.

Why should I get a fight?

81 posted on 08/30/2009 12:08:33 PM PDT by decimon
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To: squarebarb

That’s a goofy theory. Mine’s better.

Somewhere a mutant blond baby girl was born. When she grew to womanhood, men preferred her over all the brunettes. She had lots of babies. The rest is history.


82 posted on 08/30/2009 12:14:12 PM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: decimon

I don’t see much point in publishing such an article other than to promote some kind of racist tin foil hat guilt trip.

However, their facts are rather suspect since farming and domestication of plants began 8500 b.c. and it is known that there were already lighter skinned people in the Fertile Crescent and in the Sahel (Saharan) region at that time already and there were much darker skinned peoples in sub-Saharan Africa. And there were lighter skinned people in Southwest Asia and that was 10,500 years ago.

I don’t mean to poo poo these guys physiology or physics findings, but my sociological studies just don’t seem to somehow mesh with theirs. I suspect the ‘journalist’ who wrote this article took a huge dose of ‘journalist liberty’ (aka spin) with their findings for whatever purpose.

If you are interested in ‘sich’, a good quick read that was part of our studies is Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond.


83 posted on 08/30/2009 12:15:12 PM PDT by RowdyFFC (Nancy Pelosi...please deny her any health care....)
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To: decimon
Really?Many tribes through out all of North America used agriculture as a primary source of food.The Anglo settlers were taught to plant corn, beans, and squash by natives who used them as staple food crops,how far north was Jamestown?
84 posted on 08/30/2009 12:19:59 PM PDT by nomad
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To: RowdyFFC
I don’t see much point in publishing such an article other than to promote some kind of racist tin foil hat guilt trip.

I don't see any guilt in the article.

85 posted on 08/30/2009 12:21:09 PM PDT by decimon
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To: La Lydia

Fatty fish is one of the few food sources for vitamin D. I suppose the Inuits don’t need as much vitamin D from sunlight.


86 posted on 08/30/2009 12:28:27 PM PDT by LiberConservative (OneBigAssMistakeAmerica)
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To: decimon; All; Everybody; everyone
This should clear up EVERYTHING for EVERYONE

The Secret Doctrine

87 posted on 08/30/2009 12:31:44 PM PDT by bigheadfred (NEGROMANCER!!!! Run for your LIVES!!!)
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To: La Lydia

Perhaps they are currently undergoing that process


88 posted on 08/30/2009 12:32:43 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . fasl el-khitab)
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To: RegulatorCountry

.....are more “evolved” ....

that implies the creo canard that evolution trends toward perfection. The evolution in question is not more, it is instead the result of rather specific adaptations.


89 posted on 08/30/2009 12:36:31 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . fasl el-khitab)
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To: decimon

There were light skinned peoples in India long prior to 3500 BC. So the whole premise that light skinned peoples went back and forth from Africa to Europe (evolving light skin genes and losing vitamin D along the way) is severly flawed.


90 posted on 08/30/2009 12:37:35 PM PDT by PIF
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To: bigheadfred

Thanks. I didn’t know Blavatsky was fat.


91 posted on 08/30/2009 12:38:51 PM PDT by decimon
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To: squarebarb
Apparently the epicenter of blondes is the area around southern Denmark/southern Baltic shores.

Why there? Nobody as yet has an answer.

That's where the Mother Ship crashed. Geez, I can hardly believe you didn't know that.

92 posted on 08/30/2009 12:39:26 PM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: decimon

“Sod off you limpy git.”

/sarc


93 posted on 08/30/2009 12:42:04 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: This I Wonder32460

One way to justify the minorities taking over Britain. Only fair. They were there first.


94 posted on 08/30/2009 12:42:51 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: decimon

Correction- what you WILL get, because there are a number of facts, some which I cite, that get in the way of the article’s conclusions. I do wish what passes for “science” would at least stand the rigors of tested hypothesis. “Consensus” does not exist in science, but it is often used to justify other proveably incorrect hypotheses, like anthropogenic global warming. When confronted, they just change the terminology to “climate change” ‘cause who could argue with that?


95 posted on 08/30/2009 1:04:04 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: decimon
I didn’t know Blavatsky was fat.

Really? It's in the dictionary... :-))

96 posted on 08/30/2009 1:07:47 PM PDT by bigheadfred (NEGROMANCER!!!! Run for your LIVES!!!)
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To: John S Mosby

Really? I thought the CIA created sickle-cell anemia, right before it created AIDS.


97 posted on 08/30/2009 1:12:46 PM PDT by Scanian
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To: bigheadfred

Heck, I’d say Hillary was deluded into thinking she’d channelled Eleanor Roosevelt back in her wild White House seance days, lol. It was Mme. Blavatsky instead. Still looks like her. Maybe she’s just possessed.


98 posted on 08/30/2009 1:13:14 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: John S Mosby
terminology

I thought they changed it to 'terminalogy', but what do I know?

99 posted on 08/30/2009 1:19:41 PM PDT by bigheadfred (NEGROMANCER!!!! Run for your LIVES!!!)
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To: decimon

“That’s so of all words derived from Latin?”

No, it is not true of all words DERIVED FROM Latin. It is true for all Latin words, tho more often than not observed in the breach. I.e., forum should be fora, stadium/stadia, etc.


100 posted on 08/30/2009 1:20:52 PM PDT by EDINVA (A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul -- G. B. Shaw)
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