Posted on 03/03/2016 9:40:50 AM PST by sparklite2
Some of Europe's earliest inhabitants mysteriously vanished toward the end of the last ice age and were largely replaced by others, a new genetic analysis finds.
The genetic turnover was likely the result of a rapidly changing climate, which the earlier inhabitants of Europe couldn't adapt to quickly enough, said the study's co-author, Cosimo Posth, an archaeogenetics doctoral candidate at the University of Tübingen in Germany.
The temperature change around that time was "enormous compared to the climactic changes that are happening in our century," Posth told Live Science. "You have to imagine that also the environment changed pretty drastically."
Europe has a long and tangled genetic legacy. Genetic studies have revealed that the first modern humans who poured out of Africa, somewhere between 40,000 and 70,000 years ago, soon got busy mating with local Neanderthals. At the beginning of the agricultural revolution, between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago, farmers from the Middle East swept across Europe, gradually replacing the native hunter-gatherers. Around 5,000 years ago, nomadic horsemen called the Yamnaya emerged from the steppes of Ukraine and intermingled with the native population. In addition, another lost group of ancient Europeans mysteriously vanished about 4,500 years ago, a 2013 study in the journal Nature Communications found.
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Climate change forced the polar bears south and they ate all the ancient Europeans.
Because it didn't happen? Thanks, I'll be here all week.
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He has, however, already learned you are more likely to get funding if you can think of some kind of climate change angle.
The geologic record is one of frequent climate change which is often dramatic and brings major localized changes in addition to global effects. The unanswered question is what combination of changes (atmosphere, ocean currents, volcanic activity, sun activity and relationship to earth, etc. ) is responsible and how they came about. The answer to bad science which much of the highly politicized studies often are, is more science and good science.
Cause they were drowned!
Moses and the Red Sea
Because the ice melted allowing more modern humans to move into the area. We’re 3 million years into the current ice age. The last glaciation ended about 15,000 to 10,000 years ago. The next glaciation is due in the next few thousand years.
Thank you Al. :)
/bingo
...by reconstructing the mitochondrial genomes of 35 hunter-gatherer individuals who lived in Italy, Germany, Belgium, France, the Czech Republic, and Romania from 35,000 to 7,000 years ago... three individuals who lived in present-day Belgium and France before the coldest period in the last Ice Age -- the Last Glacial Maximum -- belonged to haplogroup M. This is remarkable because the M haplogroup is effectively absent in modern Europeans but is extremely common in modern Asian, Australasian, and Native American populations... The researchers say the discovery of this maternal lineage in Europe in the ancient past now suggests instead that all non-Africans dispersed rapidly from a single population, at a time they place around 50,000 years ago. Then, at some later stage, the M haplogroup was apparently lost from Europe.
This diagram works for most people, but not for folks with Down's Syndrome and a few other conditions. F is for father, M for mother; each of us has up to 64 great-great-great-great-grandcestors; no more than 46 of them has had even one chromosome pair reach you; even with the occasional crossing stream, there's no more than 46, and with crossing streams, could be less.
For those who don't know, this doesn't mean the other 18 (and all of their ancestors, plus half of the ancestors of the 46) are not your ancestors -- DUH! IOW, just because the chromosomes don't make it through, doesn't mean that Oetzi (for example) has no living descendants.
One of my grandmas had no daughters (that lived), hence her mtDNA died out, and for the same reason so did her mom's -- her brother was her only sibling; on her mother's side, I know only of a brother; etc etc...
ggggGrand gggGrand ggGrand gGrand Grand parents YOU
The residents were killed and their property was taken by better organized and warlike invaders
it happens all the time and is the reason we have cowboy and indian movies
>>The Sweet Comet of Death.
You’ll be receiving my bill for a new keyboard.
http://cosmictusk.com/clovis-population-decline-at-younger-dryas
http://sites.google.com/site/dragonstormproject/
http://craterhunter.wordpress.com/
http://anthropology.net/2009/12/16/more-clovis-comet-debate-and-a-response-from-dr-richard-firestone-2/
http://www-th.bo.infn.it/tunguska/
http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/media-entertainment/increasing-rate-asteroid-discovery/
“Neanderthal lives matter.”
First time I’ve seen that, quote of the day!
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