Comments by "Jack Mac" (@TheEggmaniac) on "Who Were the Hunter-Gatherers of Britain After the Last Ice Age?" video.

Good video. Its amazing to think first inhabitants of Britain after the last ice age had a similar appearance to Cheddar man. Though these hunter gatherers were almost completely replaced by a wave of early farmers from the continent. Why did they disappear from the gene pool ? Nobody knows for sure, it could have been drought , starvation, a pandemic or the new arrivals killed them. These new arrivals would themselves be replaced by another wave of people from the continent, a couple of thousand years later, the Beaker people. It said that 10% of people in Britain are descended from Cheddar man, but this is a misunderstanding. In reality 10% of people in Britain, have some of the same gene markers, like mitochondrial DNA, that hunter gatherers like Cheddar Man and others had. Who were from different parts of Western Europe. They are not descended directly from him.
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@mr.purple1779 Other western hunter gatherers of that time are known to have blue eyes too. Though you cant say all of them did, as we only have a few specimens from different parts of Europe. Perhaps the majority had brown eyes.
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@mr.purple1779 The hunter gatherers of Europe and Britain, of the Mesolithic period were not farmers, and not related to the first farmers, who arrived much later in Britain , about 5000 BCE. The farming people who arrived about 5000 BCE are know to have had brown or darker eyes, and lighter skin. All the examples of early hunter gatherer bodies found in Western Europe from this early period, around 9000 to 6000 BCE, have been found to have the genes for blue eyes. But these hunter gatherers, in Britain, almost completely died out or were replaced by the incoming farmers from the continent of Europe about 5000 BCE.
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@vladimpaler4689 haha how do you know that, have you not seen scientific reports? He had a skin colour which you wouldnt describe as white these days. How dark it was is still debated.
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@vladimpaler4689 Strangely all the scientific experts disagree with you.
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@vladimpaler4689 That is actually quite laughable. So you think white humans are not same species, called homo sapien sapiens, as other humans like people of African or Asian descent? Wow I dont think any scientist in the world would agree with you. Not sure where youre getting your conspiracy theories from.
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