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It wasn’t very rapid. In most of Europe white skin was introduced by famers migrating from the middle east who displaced the hunter gatherer populations at the
by ffhhttt 3y ago
It wasn’t very rapid. In most of Europe white skin was introduced by famers migrating from the middle east who displaced the hunter gatherer populations at the beginning of the neolithic.
- david-gpu 3y agoThousands of years is the blink of an eye in evolutionary terms.
- ffhhttt 3y agoMaybe, but my point is that it initially appeared in the middle east (and probably in northern Eurasia at a similar time) but was likely first introduced throughout most of Europe by migrants/invaders from modern day Turkey. The people who lived in Western Europe for likely longer that it took for white skin to evolve in the middle east/caucasus(?) region were much darker skinned. Also given how long anatomically modern humans have existed several thousands years is not such a short period.