Re: The Joy of *small* business

On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 10:01:12 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 18/12/2024 07:09, rbowman wrote:

On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:05:27 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

    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.

 
Depending on the exact timing he may have hiked across Doggerland.

 
Well its false anyway, and if coming from Africa Doggerland would not
have been a useful route

Exactly why do you think he sailed from Africa? The DNA matches the
western European hunter gatherers who had be in Europe as long ago as
17,000 years BP.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2161867-ancient-dark-skinned-briton-
cheddar-man-find-may-not-be-true/

The rest of the article is pay walled but if you read other sources there
is waffling on the skin color although 'black' generates better headlines.
Even Wikipedia is more balanced.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_hunter-gatherer#Physical_appearance

When you're looking for specific alleles of SLC24A5 and SLC45A2 in ancient
DNA there is room for interpretation.

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-ancient-ape-trkiye-story-human.html

Chris Stringer's Just So stories may become yesterday's news. Wolpoff and
Caspari challenged that theory about 30 years ago, partially because
Stringer's time line wasn't realistic.

Perhaps they will revisit the M haplogroup which has long been an anomaly.
The Just So story says L3 left Africa and mutated to M subclades of which
are common in Asia, including the Indian subcontinent.  Except M1, which
is found in North Africa. Did some M people on their way to Japan get
homesick and go back to Africa?