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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Somner: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [qb] [/qb][/QUOTE]For the record, I don't believe European hunter-gatherers were black and all of a sudden became 'white'. Obviously there was a process of *gradual lightening* that first began even before they entered Europe. Dr. Jablonski made this clear in her works on the evolution of human skin. During the late Pleistocene much of Central Asia and Anatolia which are already at higher latitudes were cloudy regions at that time receiving less sun-light. The hypothesis was that European hunter-gatherers were at least 'brown' in color if not lighter and of course we have Khoisan of southern Africa as an example of less than the typical black complexion of Sub-Saharans so obviously the selective pressures for lighter color were already active. [/QB][/QUOTE] Hello, It seems that pale skin may have evolved in Europeans as recently as 6,000 years ago. Since genetic mutations for lighter skin only occurred ( separately) in two populations, East Asians and Europeans, as recently as 6,000 years ago ( at least in Europeans), when and how did ( some) Middle Easterners become lighter skinned? I'd have to assume that it occurred very, very recently but I'm hoping that someone here has a more definite answer. I don't mean to derail this thread. If my question is too far off from the original subject of this thread please feel free to move it to a more appropriate thread. European Skin Turned Pale Only Recently, Gene Suggests http://galsatia.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/blanche_paleur.pdf Derived immune and ancestral pigmentation alleles in a 7,000-year-old Mesolithic European http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v507/n7491/full/nature12960.html [/QB][/QUOTE]
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