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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The Joy of *small* business
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 20:15:04 +0000
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On 18/12/2024 19:11, rbowman wrote:
> 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.
> 

Then why call him a black African...

> https://www.newscientist.com/article/2161867-ancient-dark-skinned-briton-
> cheddar-man-find-may-not-be-true/
> 
New scientist is a political magazine. It has no real scientific 
content. Its har left antd this is probably part of some 'critical race 
theory' bullshit



> 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.
> 
Exactly

>   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?
> 
Every body wandered around and banged anything that moved.

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