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originally posted by: Painterz
Fascinating. Perhaps not surprising as we know the early humans in Europe had dark skin.
Interesting how relatively quickly living in the northern climates evolved out dark skin and replaced it with light skin eh.
(At a side note, I'm glad the other very racist thread on this topic got closed.)
The First People to Settle Across North America’s Arctic Regions Were Isolated for 4,000 Years New research shows that the first humans in the Arctic lived there for nearly 4,000 years
Previous research has indicated that there were three waves of migration from Asia to the New World; this new study adds a fourth. The first humans are thought to have crossed over the Bering Strait more than 15,000 years ago; this new wave of Paleo-Eskimos, which brought the first people to spread across the northern reaches of Alaska, Canada and Greenland, would have come after the first two waves, but before the Neo-Eskimo or Thule made the journey between continents.
“It really shows up that these imaginary racial categories that we have are really very modern constructions,” said Tom Booth, an archaeologist at the Natural History Museum who worked on the project.
Yoan Diekmann, a computational biologist at University College London and another member of the project’s team, agreed with Booth and called into question the link between Britishness and whiteness. >that people who feel British should have white skin, through time is not at all something that is an immutable truth,”
“The historical perspective that you get just tells you that things change, things are in flux, and what may seem as a cemented truth that people who feel British should have white skin, through time is not at all something that is an immutable truth.
>“It has always changed and will change.
But the roughly 12,000 humans in Britain at the time of Cheddar Ma thrived and their DNA now comprises roughly 10 per cent of the genetic make-up of most white people currently living in the UK.
originally posted by: AngryCymraeg
The first settlers actually came to Britain about 20,000 years ago, but were forced away or died off due to the advance of the glaciers in the last Ice Age. The next wave of settlers came around 10,000 years ago
originally posted by: Sigrun
a reply to: AngryCymraeg
“It really shows up that these imaginary racial categories that we have are really very modern constructions,” said Tom Booth, an archaeologist at the Natural History Museum who worked on the project.
Yoan Diekmann, a computational biologist at University College London and another member of the project’s team, agreed with Booth and called into question the link between Britishness and whiteness. >that people who feel British should have white skin, through time is not at all something that is an immutable truth,”
“The historical perspective that you get just tells you that things change, things are in flux, and what may seem as a cemented truth that people who feel British should have white skin, through time is not at all something that is an immutable truth.
>“It has always changed and will change.
But the roughly 12,000 humans in Britain at the time of Cheddar Ma thrived and their DNA now comprises roughly 10 per cent of the genetic make-up of most white people currently living in the UK.
We probably also share 10 per cent of our genetic makeup with Clown Fish, in the case of those responsible for this disinformation and those endorsing it probably more.
First humans arrived in Britain 250,000 years earlier than thought Archaeologists digging on a Norfolk beach found stone tools that show the first humans were living in Britain much earlier than previously thought Ian Sample, science correspondent @iansample Wed 7 Jul 2010 18.04 BST First published on Wed 7 Jul 2010 18.04 BST This article is 7 years old Shares 495 Comments 131
The stone tools were unearthed from sediments that are thought to have been laid down either 840,000 or 950,000 years ago, making them the oldest human artefacts ever found in Britain.