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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I agree 100% with this statement.
They've begun on science via the theory/concept that human activity has begun to alter the climate of the earth. The earth is changing, it always has, but we're not doing it. Global Warming.
Remember a few years back when the CDC (Center For Disease Control). Why Congress Stopped Gun Control Activism At The CDC wanted to brgin controlling guns, etc?
Obviously there is some PC benefit to revealing this jaw-dropping news item. Did those evil Whites kill all the dark-skinned people and take all their arrowheads? Am I supposed to bump my White Guilt up a notch?
By country (not race or any other factor) the Dutch are the tallest people on earth and the Japanese are the shortest.
BTW, Bryan admits in later books that he made a mistake and that there were/are EIGHT Daughters Of Eve.
hahaha
He was a real piece of work. Never seen someone with so much of his self-worth tied up in a children's game played by allegedly grown men before. Many folks had run-ins with the dirtbag, myself included. I didn't think he'd last long. He'll be really easy to target as a retread though.
Well played.
#MyPinkAss
Wasn’t Cheddar Man the guy who shot himself in Eminem’s movie?
At Least 20% Of Neanderthal DNA Is In Humans
My niece has red hair and blue eyes which my sister tells me is rare. Red heads usually have green eyes, she says.
However there is a significant group that shows this trait
with much more frequency - 39% to be exact.
~Alien Abductees.~
And in total, when combined with people who have blue eyes
the blue/green group comprises 82% of Alien Abductees.
;)
I guess that explains the rectal itch. Stupid probing jerks!
Sirius Lee though, I've seen two rather close UFOs. Once, a silver disc shaped object in broad daylight and another, silent, low altitude lighted disc shaped object with distinct edges. Didn't get abducted either time.
Good grief I’m glad I was just a kid in the 70’s, that looks painful.
I thank God I was a teenage girl in the 70s.
;D
So now we have learned that the white privileged Britons are not the indigenous peoples we thought they were, GIVE BACK ENGLAND TO ITS RIGHTFUL OWNERS, THE BLACK RACE! Man do they have problems over there
Part of my mixed family is from Britain.
While I think they were Saxon, I suspect they had some local flavor also.
No pirates in the mix so far.
The U5a haplogroup is one of the oldest. This DNA group 'holed up' in the Iberian refuge during the Ice Age and are believed to have followed the retreating glaciers north as the Ice Age ended, these are the Sami People.
Another old one is haplogroup 'V' also big amoungst the Sami. My mother is 'V'.
52% of the Skolt Sami are haplogroup 'V'.
Renée Zellweger is a Sami.
WE WUZ KANGS!
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