a member of the ancient Saqqaq culture ?
Posted on 02/10/2010 12:57:13 PM PST by decimon
A few tufts of hair frozen in the permafrost of Greenland for more than 4,000 years have allowed scientists to sequence the genome of an ancient human for the first time.
The hairs belonged to a member of the ancient Saqqaq culture of Greenland, the first humans known to inhabit the icy island. Scientists have long wondered where the Saqqaq came from and whether or not they were the ancestors of today's modern Inuit and Greenlanders. The new findings, detailed in the Feb. 11 issue of the journal Nature, have helped to settle that question.
The hairs also tell about the individual, which scientist have dubbed "Inuk," meaning "human" or "man" in the Greenlandic language, giving us insight into what our ancient human ancestors looked like.
The results suggested Inuk was a male with brown eyes, dark skin, type A+ blood, shovel-shaped front teeth and was genetically predisposed to baldness and dry earwax. (Because Inuk clearly still had hair when he died, the scientists think he must have died young.) He also likely had a metabolism that was well-adapted to a cold climate.
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Waxing and waning ping.
Very interesting and amazing. I can’t even imagine what it would be like 4,000 years ago....also makes me wonder how long man will live and if there is a heaven and will I have to wait thousands of years before the second coming and if there is other life in the universe and will I see my pets in heaven. I could go on....lol
Just W@W *ping* - how exciting....
Dry earwax is a Mongoloid feature. Indo-Europeans have “wet” or soft earwax.
4,000 years is but the blink of an eye.
Won’t it be interesting if it fails to reveal any evolutionary changes
He’d have been the first Khan if he’d gone in the right direction.
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There would be little or no evolutionary changes in a mere 4000 years according to the Darwinian theory.
Is that your contention?
NONE ?? so how long would a change in ONE gene take?
I don’t know, you are the one pushing Darwinian theory (whether you know it or not).
Meanwhile, they committed a heinous offense, PC-wise: they called Kalaallit Nunaat "Greenland" (Erik the Red's name for the place).
Not me.. I would think that no change over a 4000 year period.. would indicate maybe man is its own species and not a monkey redux
Some paleo Americans had more common sense.
http://www.nbbd.com/godo/history/windover/
Florida - warm and sunny today
whats the alternative to “Darwinian Theory”?
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