Comments by "Jack Mac" (@TheEggmaniac) on "Western Hunter Gatherers and the Evolution of Blue u0026 Green Eyes…" video.

Im sure Cheddar man did have darker skin than modern northern Europeans. How dark exactly their skin was seems to be debatable. Modern humans had only recently moved into northern Europe from southern Europe and Asia. So their skin tone had yet to evolve under the pressure of living in an environment with much less sunlight. The advantages of individuals with a lighter skin coloured, were only starting have an effect on the gene pool. We dont really know what advantages there are from having paler eye pigmentation like blue or green, but most of the genetic analysis shows that these early northern European hunter gatherers had them. A misleading article was published a few years ago saying that direct descendants of Cheddar Man were found in England, and one of them lived very close to the same area that Cheddar man was found. Infact there have been no direct descendants of his detected in Britain. There are some people who are descended from the same generalised ethnic group of early hunter gatherers, that have been found. But they are descended from other hunter gatherers on the European mainland, like Luxembourg and Spain, that Cheddar Man was distantly related to. Interestingly they also seemed to have pale blue eyes. The fact that there are no known direct survivors of Cheddar man or close relatives of his, found in Britain, means all his descendants must have died out and been replaced by Indo European newcomers. Blue eyes were probably reintroduced from a different source, via people originating near the Black sea.
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