Posted on 02/06/2018 11:31:05 PM PST by blam
The first modern Britons, who lived about 10,000 years ago, had “dark to black” skin, a groundbreaking DNA analysis of Britain’s oldest complete skeleton has revealed.
The fossil, known as Cheddar Man, was unearthed more than a century ago in Gough’s Cave in Somerset. Intense speculation has built up around Cheddar Man’s origins and appearance because he lived shortly after the first settlers crossed from continental Europe to Britain at the end of the last ice age. People of white British ancestry alive today are descendants of this population.
It was initially assumed that Cheddar Man had pale skin and fair hair, but his DNA paints a different picture, strongly suggesting he had blue eyes, a very dark brown to black complexion and dark curly hair.
The discovery shows that the genes for lighter skin became widespread in European populations far later than originally thought – and that skin colour was not always a proxy for geographic origin in the way it is often seen to be today.
Tom Booth, an archaeologist at the Natural History Museum who worked on the project, said: “It really shows up that these imaginary racial categories that we have are really very modern constructions, or very recent constructions, that really are not applicable to the past at all.”
Yoan Diekmann, a computational biologist at University College London and another member of the project’s team, agreed, saying the connection often drawn between Britishness and whiteness was “not an immutable truth. It has always changed and will change”.
The findings were revealed ahead of a Channel 4 documentary, which tracked the ancient DNA project at the Natural History Museum in London as well as creating a new forensic reconstruction of Cheddar Man’s head.
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So you are saying that European migrants continued to evolve while their African ancestors did not?
Black Irish? ;-)
Black Irish? ;-)
The Left has thoroughly corrupted every once-respected institution. Having worked so hard for decades to wreck the family, society and free government, I wonder what remains after they’ve soiled science?
Fudge factor.
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I was thinking the same thing, just as with
Global warming they are not satisfied with
just facts
By the time we get the lies sorted out there
is no story left.
The article agrees with what you are saying.
No. Of course it doesn't.
I have red hair and green eyes, my brother has blonde hair and blue eyes. My father was born in Norway, had blue eyes and blonde hair that turned dark as he got older. My mom came from German, English and or Welsh stock and was fair skinned and a redhead like me but had hazel eyes.
My brother married a woman who is part Irish, perhaps a bit Welsh and German but a quarter American Indian. She has very dark/black hair and dark brown eyes and what I would call an olive complexion.
Two of their children have similar looks, hair, eyes and complexion to their mother but their one daughters has blonde hair and blue eyes. And my SIL used to point that out to my mother who told her she’d never have any blonde blue eyed children because it a recessive trait.
Of course just because some genetic traits are dominant, that doesn’t mean they always push out recessive traits.
And that was before PC Principal received his PhD.
My own guess is that 10,000 years ago, people who lived in the British Isles had darker skin than they have today, and people who lived in Equatorial Africa had lighter skin than they have today. If it had been very common 10,000 years ago, the combination of coal-black skin, curly hair and blue eyes would not be uncommon today.
“Science” in the hands of the left wing.
Promoting the longtime black agenda.
To my way of seeing things, race is manifest more in body morphology than anything else. Tall, angular and with lots of surface area for hot climates, squat and much less surface for cold climates, and in-between for temperate. Of course since human beings migrate and interbreed, you can get quite a bit of overlap.
Don’t need to guess.
This is garbage.
Was probably a slave.
It's one of my all-time favorite books.
Yes. Must be why I always marvel at the machetes in Home Depot when I’m in that section.
I wouldn’t put too much importance on the data about a population from one sample.
The Brits should sue the rest of the world for “reparations”.
Pretty good chance I mean black skin and blue eyes? I don’t know.
He’s Nacho Daddy.
Well that's not unusual.
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