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Europeans drawn from three 'tribes'
BBC ^ | 09/17/2014 | Paul Rincon

Posted on 09/17/2014 11:17:18 AM PDT by Natufian

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1 posted on 09/17/2014 11:17:18 AM PDT by Natufian
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To: Natufian; SunkenCiv; blam

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2 posted on 09/17/2014 11:18:35 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Natufian

Shem, Ham, and Japheth


3 posted on 09/17/2014 12:00:47 PM PDT by Azeem (There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo.)
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To: Natufian

I miss science. I am pretty sure you can’t identify whether someone is a hunter or a farmer from DNA.


4 posted on 09/17/2014 1:52:23 PM PDT by Nota particle
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They didn’t even try. The hunter-gatherer bones were identified as such by the contest they were found in


5 posted on 09/17/2014 2:02:46 PM PDT by Natufian (t)
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Well, really... if you found someone with a hoe, you still have a couple of occupations to choose from.


6 posted on 09/17/2014 2:03:59 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Nota particle

They didn’t even try. The hunter-gatherer bones were identified as such by the contest they were found in


7 posted on 09/17/2014 2:08:05 PM PDT by Natufian (t)
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To: Nota particle

Contest = context grrr


8 posted on 09/17/2014 2:08:57 PM PDT by Natufian (t)
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To: MrB

If it was just a hoe, you’d be right.


9 posted on 09/17/2014 2:10:17 PM PDT by Natufian (t)
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“Hunters and gatherers get vitamin D through their food - because animals have a lot of it. But once you’re farming, you don’t get a lot of it, and once you switch to agriculture, there’s strong natural selection to lighten your skin so that when it’s hit by sunlight you can synthesise (sic) vitamin D.”

My grandfather was a farmer. He had a smokehouse full of bacon and sausage. He raised chickens, hogs and cattle. He had two ponds stocked with fish and a creek running through the property. Farmer does not equal vegetarian. I miss science.


10 posted on 09/17/2014 2:44:51 PM PDT by Nota particle
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And your grandfather would be in a minority relative to the average farmer both today and throughout history.


11 posted on 09/17/2014 2:50:51 PM PDT by Natufian (t)
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To: Natufian

Proof vs. opinion. I miss science.


12 posted on 09/17/2014 2:58:23 PM PDT by Nota particle
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LOL. You don’t miss science, you’ve got issues with science.


13 posted on 09/17/2014 3:08:41 PM PDT by Natufian (t)
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Please show that contest (sic) was used for determining farmer vs hunter gatherer in the article. Please provide a reference for hunter gatherers eating more meat than farmers. I miss science.


14 posted on 09/17/2014 3:41:12 PM PDT by Nota particle
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To: Nota particle

If you don’t know that context is used in archaeology then it’s not so much that you miss science, it’s more that you don’t understand it.

You wanted a reference, here’s one.

http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/low-carb-diets/nutrition-and-health-in-agriculturalists-and-hunter-gatherers/


15 posted on 09/18/2014 4:00:43 AM PDT by Natufian (t)
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http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/timelines/topics/domesticated_animals.htm


16 posted on 09/18/2014 6:46:35 AM PDT by Nota particle
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You’re posting an article supposedly to support an assertion that farmers ate as much meat as hunter gatherers which contains the phrase “Ancient Egyptians consumed only little meat...”.

Are you sure you have a basic understanding of what you’re talking about? I reckon science doesn’t miss you in the least.


17 posted on 09/18/2014 7:24:28 AM PDT by Natufian (t)
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Thanks afraidfortherepublic.

18 posted on 09/18/2014 8:45:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Salamander

Us Blue-Eyed Swarthy Hunters are *everywhere*!


19 posted on 09/19/2014 1:20:40 AM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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20 posted on 09/19/2014 3:15:00 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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