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> Greenlanders haven't existed for millennia. Greenlanders have existed for just under a millennium. I got google-y for fun and every scientific paper title im
by VLM 5y ago
> Greenlanders haven't existed for millennia. Greenlanders have existed for just under a millennium.
I got google-y for fun and every scientific paper title implies its inuit greenlanders whom have the mutation, not the euro greenlanders, and greenland is about 90% inuit. The picture of the prof looks like he's a euro greenlander looks like Denmark heritage to me but who knows (and it doesn't matter much anyway).
wikipedia says the inuit greenlanders have been chillin on the island for near 5000 years now.
I would imagine due to intermarriage, if the euro greenlanders are outnumbered 10 to 1, that quite a few euro greenlanders have the mutation, but the paper titles all seem to imply inuit greenlanders only.
The wikipedia article implies the archeological inuit greenlander diet was mostly carnivore. That's actually pretty healthy as long as they eat enough organ meats but not too much (particularly liver)
- ijlx 5y agoGreenland may have been inhabited for 5000 years, but that does not mean they share a genetic heritage back that long. The Thule people, from whom modern indigenous Greenlanders descend, originated around 1000 CE in Alaska.
- dEnigma 5y agoI'm pretty sure the Inuit diets in Alaska and Greenland are pretty similar though, at least in terms of macronutrients (i.e. a lot of fat).
- podgaj 5y agoThe diets are the same and the Alaskan Inuit also carry the SI deficiency alleles. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25452324/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25452324/
- jeromegv 5y agoI don't know where you're looking on Wikipedia, but Inuit Greenlanders arrived in 1200 AD Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenlandic_Inuit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenlandic_Inuit It's also common knowledge, Inuit/Thule were pretty much the last ones that migrated from Asia across Bering. They displaced previous indigenous people that had been there for few thousand years before (at least in Canada).
- AlotOfReading 5y agoThey arrived in Greenland during the last millennium. Paleo-Inuit peoples have been in the Americas for probably around 5000 years. The previous indigenous people you're talking about were earlier branches of the same "family". Moreover, this particular mutation is known to be common in Arctic peoples as a whole, not just Greenlandic Inuit.