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The discovery of denisovans is really interesting. Now I'm starting to imagine ancient societies were like the classic Planet of the Apes movies, where sub spec
by alphonse23 12y ago
The discovery of denisovans is really interesting. Now I'm starting to imagine ancient societies were like the classic Planet of the Apes movies, where sub species of different humanoids lived together and societies developed political hierarchies/roles based on those sub species, i.e. Orangutans functioned as politicians/state-mens, Gorillas worked in the military, and Chimpanzee were scientist (I think that's how the movies went -- I haven't watched them in awhile).
I wonder which sub species for human were responsible for blonde hair and green/blue eyes -- or maybe it's a sub species yet to be discovered. I bet in order to make that call you'd need a near perfect genome -- which is probably vary hard to come by.
(My Thoughts)
- danieltillett 12y agoBlue eyes are the result of a single mutation in an individual that lived around 5000 years ago. All people with blue eyes are descended from this one person.
- walterbell 12y agoWould you recommend any reading material about that mutation?
- danieltillett 12y agoI will try and dig out the reference. Edit. Here it is http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00439-007-0460-x http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00439-007-0460-x
- walterbell 12y agoThank you very much.
- danieltillett 12y agoNot a problem :)
- Traderpt 12y agoAnd all individuals with 'green' eyes and many people with brown eyes with recessive blue.
- danieltillett 12y agoActual green in a bit more genetically complex, but yes there are lot of people with brown eyes that carry the blue eye variant.