New findings from “The Iceman Otzi’s genome:
New findings from “The Iceman Otzi’s genome:
He had male-pattern baldness and much darker skin. The skin color genetic changes took thousands of years to become commonplace in Europe. “We have always imagined that [Europeans] became light-skinned much faster. But now it seems that this happened actually quite late in human history.”
“People that lived in Europe between 40,000 years ago and 8,000 years ago were as dark as people in Africa, which makes a lot of sense because [Africa is] where humans came from.” Genes conferring light skin tones didn’t become prevalent until 4,000 to 3,000 years ago when early farmers started eating plant-based diets and didn’t get as much vitamin D from fish and meat as hunter-gathers did.
Photo: Daily Mail, London UK.
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