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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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The fight potential of this thread is exquisite.
1 posted on 08/30/2009 10:40:36 AM PDT by decimon
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To: SunkenCiv

Neubie ping.


2 posted on 08/30/2009 10:41:15 AM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

So what’s the theory on Asians?

And evolved from what?


3 posted on 08/30/2009 10:43:01 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (Is /sarc really necessary?)
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To: decimon

fascinating.


4 posted on 08/30/2009 10:43:09 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: decimon

I guess that this means that vitamin D is “racist”!


5 posted on 08/30/2009 10:44:22 AM PDT by reg45 (Be calm everyone. The idiot children are in charge!)
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To: decimon

If this is case, what about the Inuit in Alaska? Should they not have evolved into light-skinned blonds as well?


6 posted on 08/30/2009 10:47:10 AM PDT by La Lydia
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Britain and Scandinavia had dark skins for millenniums

Nice use of the lingo.
7 posted on 08/30/2009 10:48:10 AM PDT by Rodebrecht (Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.)
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To: decimon

No serious scientist actually believes this


8 posted on 08/30/2009 10:48:29 AM PDT by AzaleaCity5691
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To: La Lydia

They’re not agrarian.


9 posted on 08/30/2009 10:48:38 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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If this is case, what about the Inuit in Alaska? Should they not have evolved into light-skinned blonds as well?

If they turned to agriculture. Don't think they did.

10 posted on 08/30/2009 10:49:47 AM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

Hogwash, my ancestors arrived in the Great Ice Ship. No one has proven otherwise. ;o)


11 posted on 08/30/2009 10:50:22 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (DON'T BLAME ME I VOTED FOR PALIN!)
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To: decimon
Whitey stole Europe, too?

(Whitey's fault.)

12 posted on 08/30/2009 10:50:40 AM PDT by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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If this is case, what about the Inuit in Alaska? Should they not have evolved into light-skinned blonds as well?

No, because they were never farmers, but remained primaryily hunters. Lots of vit D in animal flesh. ( According to the theory)

I remember seeing a food channel episode a while beack where the host ate a seal with an Inuit family. One delicacy- the eyeballs- incredibly rich in vit D.

13 posted on 08/30/2009 10:50:51 AM PDT by Red Boots
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Britain and Scandinavia had dark skins for millenniums

Nice use of the lingo.

The British don't always handle plurals as Americans do but you're probably right.

14 posted on 08/30/2009 10:52:54 AM PDT by decimon
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Funny how this non-intelligent evolution somehow found a way to compensate for a deficient vitamin. I guess the same manner in which evolution always seems to stumble its way into intricate complexities and problem solving. This crap is comedic. But researchers funded by grants are well paid comedians.


15 posted on 08/30/2009 10:52:59 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: decimon

Skin color is the most visible but not the only physical difference between races. For example, forensic examiners can tell the race of an individual by a single tooth or bone. I wonder how they explain those differences?


16 posted on 08/30/2009 10:53:41 AM PDT by Fingolfin
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The fight potential of this thread is exquisite.

You posted this just to see the usual fight erupt didn't you?

17 posted on 08/30/2009 10:54:58 AM PDT by calex59
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To: decimon

Whitey done stole all the Vitamin D.......bastards!!!!


18 posted on 08/30/2009 10:56:36 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: decimon

Isn’t it rather racist, to say that white Europeans are more “evolved” in any way, shape or form?

Of course, when you get right down to it, the whole “Out Of Africa” thing is racist, too, implying that the smart ones got out as it does, when you get right down to brass tacks.

Those infernal skull calipers are never far removed from this whole charade, whatever the intended political impact of the latest news in human “evolution” might be at any given moment.

I’m left to ponder the cranial capacity of the author, as a result. His having written “millenniums” doesn’t help, either.


19 posted on 08/30/2009 10:56:52 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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You posted this just to see the usual fight erupt didn't you?

Nope. But when you have evolution and race in one thread...

20 posted on 08/30/2009 10:57:07 AM PDT by decimon
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