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Can't you deduce skin colour from chemical analysis of bog bodies, or is melanin unstable in those conditions? Also, can't we deduce skin colour from analysis o
by bloak 9y ago
Can't you deduce skin colour from chemical analysis of bog bodies, or is melanin unstable in those conditions? Also, can't we deduce skin colour from analysis of DNA (and from the climate: sunlight affects skin colour)?
Perhaps the problem is that scientists are not particularly interested in skin colour, for which I wouldn't blame them.
- foldr 9y agoNot sure about bog bodies, but there's so few of them that it's unlikely to be useful information. There is no way to determine skin color via DNA analyses of ancient remains, so far as I'm aware.
- foldr 9y agoLooks like I was wrong about DNA evidence and skin color: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/02/07/first-britons-black-natural-history-museum-dna-study-reveals/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/02/07/first-britons-...