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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nodnarb: [QB] Let's not forget that some Southern Europeans did retain ancestral alleles for darker skin even as recently as the Mesolithic. [QUOTE]Here we sequence an approximately 7,000-year-old Mesolithic skeleton discovered at the La Braña-Arintero site in León, Spain, to retrieve a complete pre-agricultural European human genome. Analysis of this genome in the context of other ancient samples suggests the existence of a common ancient genomic signature across western and central Eurasia from the Upper Paleolithic to the Mesolithic. [qb]The La Braña individual carries ancestral alleles in several skin pigmentation genes, suggesting that the light skin of modern Europeans was not yet ubiquitous in Mesolithic times.[/qb] Moreover, we provide evidence that a significant number of derived, putatively adaptive variants associated with pathogen resistance in modern Europeans were already present in this hunter-gatherer.[/QUOTE]---[URL=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v507/n7491/full/nature12960.html]Source[/URL] I don't know how this particular individual would compare to southern Khoisan, let alone equatorial Africans. But it is one line of evidence that makes me think living a "Mediterranean" latitude isn't [i]always[/i] sufficient to prompt a population into evolving lower pigmentation. And then there are the Tasmanian Aborigines who lived even further from the Equator than any Khoisan peoples. While color photographs aren't easy to come by for this population, as far as I can tell from the black-and-white photos and European paintings of them, they were mostly dark rather than light brown. [IMG]https://cdn.theconversation.com/files/46901/width926/7nbsqxgw-1398232607.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Trugannini_1866.jpg[/IMG] As an aside, the southernmost area of Africa (where light-skinned Khoisan would have presumably evolved) actually [i]does[/i] extend a bit further from the Equator than Lower Egypt. The northern shore of Lower Egypt barely extends above 30 degrees North, but there is a sizable chunk of South Africa that runs south of 30 degrees South. Cape Agulhas in South Africa is almost 35 degrees South, whereas Baltim on the northernmost Egyptian coast is less than 32 degrees. [IMG]http://www.skyandtelescope.com/wp-content/uploads/latitude_chart_l.gif[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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