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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Truthcentric: [QB] I was reading [URL=http://wysinger.homestead.com/hair_semma.pdf]this old study[/URL] which concludes that ancient Nubians had less tightly curled hair than what we normally associate with sub-Saharan Africans. I know some people here will claim that tropically adapted Africans have diverse hair textures, but according to [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-textured_hair]Wikipedia[/URL], Afro-type hair is a tropical adaptation whereas straighter hair is more adaptive to a cold/low-UV environment, which makes me wonder if less curly hair in Africans does indicate some admixture with cold-adapted populations. The problem is that we all know that these people still had very tropical limb proportions, which would preclude the Eurasian admixture hypothesis. And how come I can't find photos of these Nubian mummies? Maybe their hair isn't as straight as the study authors seem to imply here? I wonder if these guys have looked at mummies like [URL=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SshJyvXjN4U/TfBzHwF0unI/AAAAAAAACtg/wQyTu18woXU/s1600/nubian-mummy.jpg]this[/URL]? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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