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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cass/: [QB] Egypt (or a significant portion of it) isn't in a high-UV radiation zone (see the map in Jablonki & Chaplin, 2000 - "The evolution of human skin coloration") therefore (like the northern Maghreb) light[er] skin pigmentation was selected there. This is a problem for Afrocentrists who want all autochthonous African populations to be "black" (i.e. dark brown skinned) to fit their politics. But what if there were native non-blacks of northernmost Africa? This was actually hypothesized by Carleton Coon. I predict with ancient DNA in the next few years that ancient Egyptians will be proven to carry 2 or 3 of the 5 derived light skin alleles (rs1426654, rs16891982, rs1042602, rs642742, rs2424984, are there even more?) to explain their pigmentation as roughly intermediate between Europeans and Sub-Saharan Africans. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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