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2016-07-15 22:13:56 Post No. 62147126
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2016-07-15 22:13:56
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Today's your lesson about history and genetics, /int/.
Europeans are descended from three main ancestral groups. They are:
1) Indigenous European hunter-gatherers
2) Neolithic farmers from the Near East and the Caucasus
3) Indo-Aryans from the Pontic–Caspian steppe
>What were the hunter gatherers like?
They had broad faces, flat noses, epicanthic or median folds, dark skin, light hair and eyes. There was of course, some variation in their phenotypes, but in general they looked like that due to being partly descended from Siberians. The chinky look in Finns and some other northern Euros with high amounts of admixture from them is mostly due to that. Best modern example of a hunter gatherer: a Finnish/Uralic person but with dark skin instead of light since they didn't posses the genes for light skin. Dating of the ancestry: indigenous to the continent.
>What were the neolithic farmers like?
They had long faces, convex or straight noses thin noses, dark hair and eyes and light skin. Best modern example of a neolithic farmer from the Caucasus: a Sardinian. Best modern example of a neolithic farmer from the Near East: a central Italian. Dating of the ancestry: 6000-8000 years ago.
>What were the Indo-Aryans like?
Their clear phenotype is mostly unknown, but they weren't as light as previously thought and the theory of the mutation for light eyes appearing first in the area around the Black Sea has already been debunked since the indigenous European hunter gatherers had light eyes too. One theory is that there were two groups of Indo-Aryans: one of them was light in pigmentation and the other one was dark despite both of them being closely related genetically and culturally. I cannot give you an accurate modern example for this one due to this, but northern Europeans have the most admixture from them as you can see in my pic. They're probably descended mostly from the lighter branch. Dating of the ancestry: 3000-4000 years ago.
