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Wouldn’t be surprised. A lot of meds and south euros in general still have the gene for darker skin than, for example, Northern Europe.
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Of course... bc anything thats dark is automatically dark dark brown or black . When the researchers say dark they probably mean olive and bronze skin which is still seen in Mediterranean’s, it’s the normal color tbh. I have a bronzish color myself but that would never be confused for SSA skin.
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They had 4 light skin genes, that's enough to be fairly pale, on that standard most Europeans will be dark skinned, it's the same problem with WHG and what not, not every European is dead pale. And DNA doesn't predict skin color very well we know because of 23andme and other companies that often miss on skin color.
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Well, it is a given fact that both Minoans and Mycaeneans were darker in pigmentation than today's Greeks. I mean, it probably is correlated to the fact that during these last 4000 years Greeks have gained more Steppe admixture (which is between 4-16% in the notorious 2017 of Minoans/Mycaeneans), and thus, we got slightly lighter.
But anthropologically speaking, they were classic Meds, nothing unusual, as depicted by the frescoes themselves (the women must have been stunning btw).
"Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not"
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I think evidence shows that Europeans have been getting lighter over time. This includes S. Europe. I don’t know why certain people are married to pigmentation, or dislike the idea of a gradual change in population aesthetics. Evolution (adaptation & sexual selection) doesn’t come to a particular point and then stop.
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EEF have more SNP related to light skin that WHG.
Aegeans have also more "Caucasian farmer" related.
Light pigmentation is also a selection pression trait.
Don't mix up your unscientific old anthropology stupidities for mentally retarded with present-day science
Genetics and appearance is more complex than your old anthropological stupidities, it's not all about "brown mediterranean" and "nordic", and I can't help for those who have an inferiority complex due to their non-European contribution which has no relation with Neolithic and Mesolithic European (I will not mention some Portuguese and Spaniards).
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I find it quite unlikely since both Anatolians and Caucasians were already monozygote for fair skin. women are always represented as white. More likely men tanned and there was some sign of masculinity in it.
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