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Africans do too. https://www.science.org/content/article/africans-carry-surprising-amount-neanderthal-dna https://www.science.org/content/article/africans-carry
by graphe 3y ago
Africans do too. https://www.science.org/content/article/africans-carry-surprising-amount-neanderthal-dna https://www.science.org/content/article/africans-carry-surpr... .03%
The first Europeans are thought to be dark skinned and with blue eyes. I think their modern descendants include Estonians.
- Quarrel 3y agoAll Europeans are their modern descendants. (the doubling per generation + population bottlenecks makes this essentially inescapable)
- ch4s3 3y agoThe comment you're replying to is talking about Western Hunter Gatherers[1] who were mostly displaced later by farmers from Anatolia. Outside of the Eastern Baltic states WHG ancestry is pretty rare. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hunter-Gatherer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hunter-Gatherer
- ztrww 3y agoI’m not sure that’s true. The N haplogroup is indeed mainly only extant in the Baltic States, Finland and northern Scandinavia but they are more likely to be descendants of Eastern Hunter-Gatherers rather than West European ones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Hunter-Gatherer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Hunter-Gatherer
- ztrww 3y agoWestern and Eastern hunters gatherers were different groups. Seemingly WHG immigrated from North Africa and spread through Western Europe and Eastern hunter gathered came from northern Asia. Of course the two populations met and mixed in north Eastern Europe. But at least on the male line steppe/Yamnaya/Indo European ancestry is dominant in the region especially compared to Western/Southern Europe where Early Neolithic Farmer ancestry is more prevalent (which is very low specifically in Estonia) so the descendants of hunter gatherer probably survived there much longer (however they weren’t exactly WHG in the first place)