Comments by "Casual Earth" (@casualearth9076) on "BBC News" channel.

  1. No, there isn't. Chris Stringer is a leader in anthropology and has been for decades. Read some of his other work.
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  2. "Blackwashing?" Cheddar Man was British, just with darker skin. It's been the leading theory for a while that paler skin came about after a shift toward grain agriculture. As with modern Inuits, the hunter-gatherers of Western Europe did not yet have vitamin D deficiency due to a fish & meat-rich diet. Only when they shifted toward a porridge and bread based diet was pale skin heavily selected for. And if you're British, I don't really understand why this would offend you. It hasn't changed any of your history at all.
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  3. @Lor Miller I kind of assumed you already knew that sunshine mattered....but it's the combination of low sunshine hours with a predominantly grain-based diet that led to the strong selective pressure for light skin. That's why hunter-gatherers in Northwest Europe stayed dark skinned for millennia. Look it up-----it's all there for you to read. This has been known for a while. Chris Stringer, the expert in the video, has written extensively about it.
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  4. Nope, there's nothing "political" about this. It's been the leading theory for a while that paler skin came about after a shift toward grain agriculture. As with modern Inuits, the hunter-gatherers of Western Europe did not yet have vitamin D deficiency due to a fish & meat-rich diet. Only when they shifted toward a porridge and bread based diet was pale skin heavily selected for. And if you're British, I don't really understand why this would offend you. It hasn't changed any of your history at all.
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  5. Chris Stringer is a leader in his field....he has studied human origins for decades. I don't know why these DNA results offended so many people, as they don't really change British history at all.
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  6. Nope, there's nothing "political" about this. It's been the leading theory for a while that paler skin came about after a shift toward grain agriculture. As with modern Inuits, the hunter-gatherers of Western Europe did not yet have vitamin D deficiency due to a fish & meat-rich diet. Only when they shifted toward a porridge and bread based diet was pale skin heavily selected for. And if you're British, I don't really understand why this would offend you. It hasn't changed any of your history at all...
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  7. @Lor Miller Because Northern Europe has incredible low sunshine hours compared to the Middle East (I'll link a map of that). It is the combination of low sunshine hours AND a grain based diet that caused the vitamin D deficiency, and made pale skin beneficial. Grain became the primary calorie source in Northern Europe, in Scandinavia and elsewhere. http://www.folkecenter.net/mediafiles/folkecenter/rd/solar/Solskinstimer-i-Europa-om-aaret.jpg
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  8. It's the combination of low sunshine hours with diet. You need the combination. That's why dark skin persisted for millennia.
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  9. It's been the leading theory for a while that paler skin came about after a shift toward grain agriculture. As with modern Inuits, the hunter-gatherers of Western Europe did not yet have vitamin D deficiency due to a fish & meat-rich diet. Only when they shifted toward a porridge and bread based diet was pale skin heavily selected for. And if you're British, I don't really understand why this would offend you. It hasn't changed any of your history at all.
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