Posted on 04/27/2007 10:23:12 AM PDT by SirLinksalot
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS MEETING:
European Skin Turned Pale Only Recently, Gene Suggests Ann Gibbons
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA--At the American Association of Physical Anthropologists meeting, held here from 28 to 31 March, a new report on the evolution of a gene for skin color suggested that Europeans acquired pale skin quite recently, perhaps only 6000 to 12,000 years ago
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Descendant Of Stone Age Skeleton Found (Cheddar Man - 9,000 Years Old)
"In an astonishing piece of detective work, they matched mitochondrial DNA material extracted from the tooth cavity of Britain's oldest complete skeleton with that of a 42-year-old history teacher, Adrian Targett. The genetic material showed without doubt that Targett is a direct descendant through his mother's line of the skeleton known as Cheddar Man, which was found in 1903 in caves in Cheddar Gorge in southwest England."
"It is extraordinary that the DNA survives at all, but we were able to extract it and sequence it," said Bryan Sykes of Oxford University's Institute of Molecular Medicine. "They would have shared a common ancestor about 10,000 years ago, so they are related."
"Targett lives about a kilometer from the caves where Cheddar Man was found. Previous tests have shown that Cheddar Man suffered a violent death at the age of about 23 in 7150 B.C."
Targett today lives less than a mile from where his mother's relatives lived 9,000 years ago. (...and, my ex-wife accused me of never wanting to go anywhere, lol)
BTW, there is a 26,000 year old Cheddar Man too but, I can't find any study done on him.
INteresting.
I’ll try to get those books.
Thank you for the references.
Maybe it was exceedingly "dark" throughout Europe in that period.
The Brits were in India for several hundred years. No doubt things happened.
No doubt it was difficult finding dates back then.
Only the Germans and Slavs believe there are any serious differences between Germans and Slavs.
In fact, there are two different colors of pigment present in human beings. One is brown/black and the other is red/brown. There are all sorts of combinations possible.
You are speaking only of degrees of pigmentation with some folks having a darker appearance due to a higher pigment content in the upper layers of skin.
Many factors control the amount of pigment in the skin and some may or may not be as "dominant" as you might imagine.
If you were lactose intolerant, and had darker skin, life in a Northern city such as Chicago might well leave you somewhat incapacitated as compared to your lighter brethren who were not lactose intolerant.
Not that this couldn't be overcome in these modern times, but unless your mother was fully cognizant of what was happening, she could end up with many fewer grandchildren than she might have had in Mississippi for example.
Delection of certain genetic combinations can happen in a single generation if they prove fatal, or nearly so.
Other way around ~ their are Yemen populations with blondism ~ they didn’t move in with Alexander. They were there thousands of years earlier.
The first known invasion (record in history) was about 700 BC. That's when the three brothers (sons of Ir) sailed their ships to a new land they called Scota.
Through time Scota became known as Irland (after Ir) and Alba became Scotia or Scotland.
The earlier population had all the black hair. The new invaders from Ireland had the red hair. The titled nobles had originally come from the Volga. They took over the Westernmost Basque region. Undoubtedly they took a lot of Basque slaves with them because today's Irish population cannot be differentiated from the Basque people on the Continent.
Many, probably most Scots Irish descend from Scots who themselves descend from Irish and Viking forebears who met and mixed in the 900s.
Here is an explanation:
http://www.indhistory.com/aryan.html
Central Asia and Persia have been taking in migrations of fair-featured Indo-European types since 2000 BC or so. “Alexander’s army” is most likely responsible for a small fraction of the Caucasian traits found there.
Read this May 2006 study and this December 2006 study.
Plenty of light skinned Asiatics in Korea, China & Japan, etc. What is suggested wrt them?
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