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Most ancient Europeans had dark skin, eyes and hair up until 3,000 years ago, new research finds
A new study charts the genetics of skin, hair and eye color in Europe over 45,000 years.
"...Most prehistoric Europeans had dark skin, hair and eyes well into the Iron Age, about 3,000 years ago, new research finds.
Scientists found that the genes that cause lighter skin, hair and eyes emerged among early Europeans only about 14,000 years ago, during the late stages of the Paleolithic period — also known as the "Old Stone Age." But these light features were only sporadic until relatively recently, said study senior author Silvia Ghirotto, a geneticist at the University of Ferrara in Italy.
Lighter skin may have carried an evolutionary advantage for Europeans because it enabled people to synthesize more vitamin D — needed for healthy bones, teeth and muscles — in Europe's weaker sunlight. But lighter eye color — blue or green, for example — does not seem to have had major evolutionary advantages, and so its emergence may have been driven by chance or sexual selection, Ghirotto told Live Science in an email.
Ghirotto and her colleagues analyzed 348 samples of ancient DNA from archaeological sites in 34 countries in Western Europe and Asia, according to research published Feb. 12 on the preprint server bioRxiv, which hasn't been peer-reviewed.
The oldest, from 45,000 years ago, was from the Ust'-Ishim individual discovered in 2008 in the Irtysh River region of western Siberia; and another high-quality DNA sample came from the roughly 9,000-year-old SF12 individual from Sweden..."
It'll likely pass through the peer review process. There have been similar studies showing how common dark skin was in Europe. These people cling desperately against all science and even visual evidence left behind by their own ancestors to the delusion that by through no effort of their own they are AUTOMATICALLY better than other people. That has to be one of the most resilient low IQ beliefs that continues to persist and cause real harm.
