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Europeans drawn from three ancient 'tribes'
BBC ^ | 17 September 2014 | Paul Rincon

Posted on 09/21/2014 1:32:49 PM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; blueeyes; dmanisi; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; homoerectus; mutation; origin; origins; paulrincon
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To: Little Bill
DNA Reveals Neanderthal Redheads
21 posted on 09/21/2014 3:12:34 PM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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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).
22 posted on 09/21/2014 3:22:36 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Europeans drawn from three ancient ‘tribes’

Perhaps the 3 sons of Noah?


23 posted on 09/21/2014 3:56:19 PM PDT by Mother Mary
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