Re: Could there be a Gnarly Man in current times?

On 2024-05-10, Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

Note the distinction between the total percent survivng in modern
humans as a whole and the amounts in a given individual. One might
regard this as a Neanderthal DNA survival strategy.
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Ironically, it is Northern Europeans who tend to have more. So much
for White people even existing in the "not one drop" sense. And that's
ignoring Ghenghis Khan!

Oh, it gets better.  Mesolithic European hunter gatherers were dark
skinned.  Light skin came with agriculture, both the immigration
of farmers from the Middle East and, presumably, the practice as
such also providing selection pressure.  And for a decade or so
we've finally had genetic confirmation of the common sense assumption
that the spread of the Indo-European languages into Europe was
accompanied by a significant migration from the Eurasian steppe.


ObSF:
The temporally transplanted stone age humans in the Norwegian TV
show _Beforeigners_ should not be pasty white.  I don't know if the
makers of the show were aware, but presumably the pool of available
actors sets practical limits there.

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