Re: The Joy of *small* business

On 12/18/24 5:00 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 18/12/2024 05:05, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

On 12/17/24 4:41 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:28:01 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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Danes are Germans with a seasick accent.
Did you know they are so socialist that every baby has a line tattooed
on its head at birth "This way up"

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The Danes improved the British gene pool.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danelaw
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   Agreed there ... the old Brits were an ugly lot  :-)
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   Actually, hard to tell what a "Brit" actually IS.
   It's one of those countries occupied/invaded by
   SO many entities over the ages that nobody really
   has a claim.
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   The first known human on the island - a cave fossil
   named 'Cheddar Man' - turned out to be a 'black'
   African who apparently sailed up the Spanish and
   finally English coast about 10,000 years ago just
   as the ice age was starting to thaw.
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   Oldest living lines ... probably somewhere in Wales.

 I think the red woman is the oldest - pre ice age.
 1." Dating to around 480,000 years ago during the Middle Pleistocene, the Boxgrove fossils are the oldest human remains discovered in the UK and were identified as most likely belonging to the ancient human species Homo heidelbergensis."
 But not homo sap.

   Details ....  :-)
   HH was surely as smart as we are - maybe a bit more.
   But, strictly, not 'human' (whatever THAT means).
   Some extra-large-brain subsubspecies has also recently
   been found in China (unless they made it all up for
   propaganda reasons).
   STILL very curious about Erectus. They fit in
   SOMEWHERE - were contemporary with HSS and HSN.
   Saw an article very recently in one of the science
   pages ... sez that Euro Neanderthals, near the end,
   had become a very distinct species and could no longer
   interbreed with HSS. We'll see. Oh well, HSN still
   kinda lives on .....
   I think they DO have enough DNA to reconstruct
   Neanderthals now ... but the method would be
   ethically questionable (ergo the Chinese will
   probably be the ones to do it - their view of
   ethics is, well, a little different).

2." Our own species is a relative newcomer to Britain. The earliest direct evidence is a jaw fragment found in Kent's Cavern, Devon. Scientific analysis estimated it to be at least 40,000 years old."
 No mention of skin colours or ethnicity is made and none are available. Fair skin and blue eyes are simply adaptation to low levels of sunlight.

   Light skin/eyes were apparently acquired from the Neanderthals
   and then amplified by both environmental and sexual selection.

For thousands of years the presence of modern humans in Britain remained brief and sporadic. It has only been continuous since about 12,000 years ago.

   Probably rates as one of the worlds "Most Invaded" places.
   Don't think anybody can make a really solid "historical
   claim" on England.