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When did North Africans acquire light skin color?
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by BrandonP: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [qb] Again, the arrival of light skin in North Africa predates the arrival of Europeans. There have likely always been a Northern "San like" population in Northern Africa that was relatively lighter than those in other areas.[/qb][/QUOTE]That's not necessarily impossible, since skin color is a polygenic trait and we may not have identified all mutations for lighter skin. However, I don't think there's evidence for such mutations in pre-Neolithic North African aDNA either. So the prevalence of any skin-lightening alleles in North Africa prior to late Neolithic and later admixture with Europeans and West Asians will have to remain speculative for the time being. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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