Article: Dark-skinned and blue eyes

The DNA of a hunter-gatherer who lived in Spain some 7,000 years ago suggests that Europeans were dark-skinned until much more recently than previously thought, researchers said Sunday.

Genetic material recovered from a tooth of La Brana 1, an ancient man whose skeleton was dug up in a deep cave system in Spain in 2006, revealed a strange combination of dark skin and blue eyes, according to a study in the journal Nature.
 
Given that Morocco and Spain were joined at one point, it makes sense that this would be where man's adventure north began.
 
Europeans were once black: study

The DNA of a hunter-gatherer who lived in Spain some 7 000 years ago suggests that Europeans were dark-skinned until much more recently than previously thought, researchers said Sunday.

Genetic material recovered from a tooth of La Brana 1, an ancient man whose skeleton was dug up in a deep cave system in Spain in 2006, revealed a strange combination of dark skin and blue eyes, according to a study in the journal Nature.

Europeans from the Mesolithic Period between 10 000 and 5 000 years ago, when La Brana lived, were thought to have already been fair-skinned due to low ultraviolet radiation levels at these high latitudes.

"Until now, it was assumed that light skin colour evolved quite early in Europe, (during) the Upper Palaeolithic... But this is clearly not the case," study co-author Carles Lalueza-Fox from Spain's Evolutionary Biology Institute, told AFP.

"This individual had the African variants for the pigmentation genes."

The Upper Palaeolithic or Late Stone Age stretched from 50 000-10 000 years ago, followed by the Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age that lasted until about 5 000 years ago, when it was followed in Europe by the Neolithic or New Stone Age.

Lalueza-Fox said light-skinned Europeans emerged "much later" than once believed - possibly only in the Neolithic era when erstwhile hunter-gatherers became farmers.

The cause, he said, may have been a change in diet and lower vitamin D intake associated with this lifestyle change.

In the absence of natural vitamin D, the human skin can produce its own in contact with the Sun - but dark skins synthesise much less than fair ones - creating an evolutionary incentive for change.
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More.
 
It sounds like this archaeological article is trying to say something political.
 
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Redeemed, you need to check that these articles haven't already been posted please.
It's not that difficult.
 
The original article title didn't really indicate what the article is about. I see you merrily merging a lot of threads without this little admonishment, please be consistent.
 
Redeemed said:
The original article title didn't really indicate what the article is about. I see you merrily merging a lot of threads without this little admonishment, please be consistent.
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I do merge a lot of reposts. Yours account for about 80% of them. I'll admonish the others when they hit the same score as you.

I do also still take notice that 100% of your threads are about racial issues.... ;)
 
Garyvdh said:
I do merge a lot of reposts. Yours account for about 80% of them. I'll admonish the others when they hit the same score as you.

I do also still take notice that 100% of your threads are about racial issues.... ;)
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I often heard the word but have never used "admonish" in any sentence of mine. Maybe I should, because that's what I do multiple times on a daily basis.

This is what I like about this forum, I have learnt so much here ...

I would have been a much poorer man if I had never discovered internet discussion boards.
 
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Garyvdh said:
I do merge a lot of reposts. Yours account for about 80% of them. I'll admonish the others when they hit the same score as you.

I do also still take notice that 100% of your threads are about racial issues.... ;)
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Are you on a BS spewing spree? You are pulling figures from where the sun don't shine there.
 
Redeemed said:
Are you on a BS spewing spree? You are pulling figures from where the sun don't shine there.
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Just a quick question ... and this has no bearing on this thread whatsoever nor on any other thread you may have posted in the past. This is just an opportune moment to pose this question since I can see you're online now ...

Have you ever been a member of the predominantly American forum NVNEWS??? For those who don't know it's just a NVIDIA graphics card technical forum.
 
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Picard said:
Just a quick question ... and this has no bearing on this thread whatsoever nor on any other thread you may have posted in the past. This is just an opportune moment to pose this question since I can see you're online now ...

Have you ever been a member of the predominantly American forum NVNEWS??? For those who don't know it's just a NVIDIA graphics card technical forum.
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No.
 
Fudzy said:
Given that Morocco and Spain were joined at one point, it makes sense that this would be where man's adventure north began.
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Genetically proven that Europeans arrived in Europe via the Caucuses and Russian Steppe. Scientist although believe that Neanderthal took the route via Morocco into Europe though.
 
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