Europeans drawn from three ancient 'tribes'

BBC ^ | 17 September 2014 | Paul Rincon

[Berlin_Freeper]

... Pigmentation genes carried by the hunters and farmers showed that, while the dark hair, brown eyes and pale skin of the early farmer would look familiar to us, the hunter-gatherers would stand out if we saw them on a street today.

"It really does look like the indigenous West European hunter gatherers had this striking combination of dark skin and blue eyes that doesn't exist any more," Prof Reich told BBC News.

[blam]

DNA Reveals Neanderthal Redheads

[Verginius Rufus]

I don't know how accurate the chart and map are (and all such things are subject to modification if later discoveries change what we think we know) but it should be Homo heidelbergensis ("ei" not "ie" -- as in the city of Heidelberg).

[Mother Mary]

Europeans drawn from three ancient ‘tribes’

Perhaps the 3 sons of Noah?