This is hilarious…Black, Brown Tawny. BTW the researchers said he is black like Africans. The media says he is tawny. The reseearchers said he had non-brown/black eyes. The media says he had blue eyes. Ha!
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2546421/Blue-eyed-caveman-7-000-year-old-DNA-reveals-European-African-traits.html=======
WAS THIS THE FIRST BLUE-EYED MAN? 7,000-YEAR-OLD DNA REVEALS EUROPEAN AND AFRICAN TRAITS
• Remains discovered 5000ft up mountains of north-west Spain
• Findings suggest racial transformation happened later than thought
• Man, dubbed La Brana 1, also shows similarity to Scandinavian
1.0 WAS THIS THE FIRST BLUE-EYED MAN? 7,000-YEAR-OLD DNA REVEALS EUROPEAN AND AFRICAN TRAITS
• Remains discovered 5000ft up mountains of north-west Spain
• Findings suggest racial transformation happened later than thought
• Man, dubbed La Brana 1, also shows similarity to Scandinavian DNA
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His remains were discovered 5,000ft up in the mountains of north-west Spain in 2006.
Experts were astonished to find the ancient hunter-gatherer, given the name La Brana 1, had a combination of African and European genes.(THERE ARE NO EUROPEANS GENES!!!!)
Results from an analysis of DNA taken from a tooth show he had dark – possibly black – hair and skin with deep blue eyes, the online edition of the journal Nature reports.
The mixture of African and European traits implies that the racial transformation of modern humans was still in progress long after they left Africa, with changes in eye colour coming before alterations in skin tone.
Study leader Professor Carles Lalueza-Fox, of the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Barcelona, said: ‘The biggest surprise was to discover that this individual possessed African versions in the genes that determine the light pigmentation of the current Europeans.
'Even more surprising was to find that he possessed the genetic variations that produce blue eyes
His was one of two unusually well preserved male skeletons unearthed from the La Brana-Arintero cave system near Leon.
The scientists focused first on La Brana 1's DNA because it was in better condition. They hope in due course to piece together the genome of the other man, La Brana 2.
He also shared a common ancestor with people who inhabited the Upper Palaeolithic site of Mal'ta, near Lake Baikal, Siberia, more than 20,000 years ago.
DNA from one of the Siberians, a boy, last year revealed links with native Americans.
'These data indicate that there is genetic continuity in the populations of central and western Eurasia,' said Prof Lalueza-Fox.
He would have been unable to digest lactose in milk or to cope with the starchy food that became the mainstay of later Neolithic farmers.
Farming is thought to have driven changes in the human immune system as a result of exposure to bacteria and viruses from animals.
The mixture of African and European traits implies that long after modern humans left Africa their racial transformation was still in progress, with changes in eye colour coming before alterations in skin tone.
XYYMAN COMMENT:
No. Later studies showed that the light skin gene were introduced by EEF/BASAL Eurasian(Saharan Africans).
Malstrom et al – Dinka
Lazaridis eta al – YRI/Yoruba with the Bediouns as proxies
DNATribes – popualtions from the Nile region.
Other studies – Luyha groups of Africa