Origins of the pale skin color in Europeans
September 20, 2012 at 11:16 pm
(This post was last modified: September 20, 2012 at 11:17 pm by Justtristo.)
I have been recently reading research that the genes responsible for the light skin colors in Europeans, became only dominant between 5000-6000 years ago when agriculture was firmly established in Europe.
The reasoning about the genetic evidence, is that agricultural people did not have access to vitamin d rich foods such as fish as their hunter gather precessors did.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/a...anged.html
These discoveries would piss of those various "Aryan pride" people, because until only a few thousand years ago Northern Europeans had very likely medium colored skin and dark hair, similar to what people in the Middle East or North-East Asia have.
The reasoning about the genetic evidence, is that agricultural people did not have access to vitamin d rich foods such as fish as their hunter gather precessors did.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/a...anged.html
These discoveries would piss of those various "Aryan pride" people, because until only a few thousand years ago Northern Europeans had very likely medium colored skin and dark hair, similar to what people in the Middle East or North-East Asia have.
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