Path: ...!news.nobody.at!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.szaf.org!inka.de!mips.inka.de!.POSTED.localhost!not-for-mail From: Christian Weisgerber Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Could there be a Gnarly Man in current times? Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 21:30:27 -0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 21:30:27 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: lorvorc.mips.inka.de; posting-host="localhost:::1"; logging-data="19811"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@mips.inka.de" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (FreeBSD) Bytes: 2071 Lines: 26 On 2024-05-10, Paul S Person 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. > > 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. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de