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Present day Europeans owe their blue eyes to hunter gatherers, their height to Asian nomads and their blonde hair to Anatolian Neolithic farmers, a new study suggests.
Scientists looked at how the ancient mixing of ancestries has helped shape our bodies today, including which historical groups have contributed to higher or lower heart rates, cholesterol and body mass index (BMI).
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"Asian nomads" yes these indo-europeans who looked pretty much like modern europeans and I'm surprised for blonde hair being associated with neolithic farmers ; this type of ancestry peaks in modern south europeans and yet blonde hair is mostly found in Northern europe so either a strong sexual selection or a second source might be involved (or both) I heard about blonde hair being first found among ANE which was mostly brought in europe by proto indo-europeans.
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quote:Originally posted by Muhommed Abed: Present day Europeans owe their blue eyes to hunter gatherers, their height to Asian nomads and their blonde hair to Anatolian Neolithic farmers, a new study suggests.
Scientists looked at how the ancient mixing of ancestries has helped shape our bodies today, including which historical groups have contributed to higher or lower heart rates, cholesterol and body mass index (BMI).
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In Scandinavia some may have looked like this
Reconstruction of two Scandinavian Hunter Gatherers (who where a mix between Eastern Hunter Gatherers and Western Hunter Gatherers). These reconstruction are from about 8000 years old skulls found in Sweden. Skin complexion and hair color are based on their DNA.
(Reconstructions made by Oscar Nilsson)
But some may have looked like this image of a Western Hunter Gatherer girl from Lolland in Denmark. The picture is partly based from analyzes of her DNA which was preserved in a chewing gum made of birch tar. Her age was determined by the tooth marks in the chewing gum. The artifacts and animals are based on archaeological finds and animal bones from the same period
(Painting by Tom Björklund)
Both these groups were in much replaced by the neolithic farmers with roots in Anatolia and the later steppe peoples with roots north of the Black Sea.
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