Ice Age Men Had Dark Skin and Blue Eyes, New Study Says

Greek Reporter ^ | October 25, 2024 | Abdul Moeed

[nickcarraway]

[nickcarraway]

Ping

[monkeyshine]

Did he play guitar?

[Larry Lucido]

[NoLibZone]

How do scientists know he was male?

Isn’t biology now under art and philosophy?

[Larry Lucido]

it was the only grave in the cave.

"I will not eat them in a grave
I will not eat them in a cave

[SamuraiScot]

How do scientists know he was male?

I assume you're "Joe King," since they found somatic cells. As far as determining sex goes--as you know--"the Y is why."

If you find Y chromosomes in a body's cells, it's a guy. Females don't have them, no matter how much addadictomy surgery they may have endured.

[SauronOfMordor]

“ According to Modi, the boy likely had darker skin than most modern Europeans, though not as dark as someone adapted to tropical climates. ”

In other words, his complexion was not sub-Saharan African, but more like Middle Eastern, unlike what the headline implied.

In Europe, humans needed lighter skin to get enough Vitamin D from sunlight. Lighter skinned people survived better.

[maro]

Skin color correlates with latitude. Over time, people living in northern latitudes develop light skin. It’s a battle between skin cancer and Vitamin D deficiency. In northern climes, the vitamin issue wins out.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Yes and he had an airplane and used to join the Negro pilots for flights around the pyramids.

[FlingWingFlyer]

So they looked like they looked like Terence Hill who played “Nobody” in “My Name Is Nobody.”

[nickcarraway]

They looked more like Henry Fonda.

[Alas Babylon!]

Southern Italy is not at a high latitude like Norway or Sweden.

Also, the adult lactose tolerance gene highly correlates to light skin.

How Europeans Developed Light Skin And Lactose Tolerance

[butlerweave]

They love to MAKE THINGS UP

[SunkenCiv]

[snip] A closer look at the teeth revealed the baby was likely between 7.5 and 18 months old at the time of death... The child also seems to be an early ancestor of the Villabruna cluster... [/snip]

Whoopsie. :^) Time machine.

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[Red6]

I identify as a lesbian, in a male body.

[SisterK]

or looked like Franco Nero
hot

[IWONDR]

If he lived 17000 years ago how would they be able to tell his eye color was blue? So his eye tissue would be present after 17 thousand years had passed ?!

[Tucker39]

Only 18 mo. old and already 30” tall?! Something doesn’t fit.

[Texas resident]

Did he die from climate change?