The first Britons were black, Natural History Museum DNA study reveals

[MikkiJayne]

Originally Posted by moltuae

Wow. I think when you find that your ancestors have been living in the same region for over 9,000 years I think it's time to move, if only for the sake of gene pool diversity!

There is a 'local face' round here. You'd swear Wetherspoons is entirely occupied by a single family. Don't want none of that gene diversity in the West Country thank you

[moltuae]

Originally Posted by MikkiJayne

There is a 'local face' round here. You'd swear Wetherspoons is entirely occupied by a single family. Don't want none of that gene diversity in the West Country thank you

Is this the 'local face'?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQyqJIKunRk

[Dezzy]

Originally Posted by MikkiJayne

There is a 'local face' round here. You'd swear Wetherspoons is entirely occupied by a single family. Don't want none of that gene diversity in the West Country thank you

They tried to breed us out MJ but there's no way they could do it with all those OAP's retiring here, they just don't have the stamina.

[Johnmed]

The in-laws need this article projecting on their retinas. Typical small town Litte Britainers.

WE ARE ALL IMIGRANTS. Especially with us being an island, unless humankind originated right here!!

[David's8]

Originally Posted by Johnmed

The in-laws need this article projecting on their retinas. Typical small town Litte Britainers.

WE ARE ALL IMIGRANTS. Especially with us being an island, unless humankind originated right here!!

There are possibly small pockets of the population who believe that they are direct descendants of Adam and Eve who were - of course - white. Evolution of species is, perhaps, something that some people find hard to grasp. And that "race" is a social construct and not a taxonomic definition.

[Regulus]

Originally Posted by David's8

There are possibly small pockets of the population who believe that they are direct descendants of Adam and Eve who were - of course - white. Evolution of species is, perhaps, something that some people find hard to grasp. And that "race" is a social construct and not a taxonomic definition.

I can tell you that Edgar Caye said in trance, also called a Reading. That Adam and Eve lived in Atlantis, and were red. And that Atlantis were located in the Atlantic ocean, between Gibraltar and Bimini

https://www.edgarcayce.org/the-readi...ries/atlantis/

[The_Laird]

Originally Posted by David's8

There are possibly small pockets of the population who believe that they are direct descendants of Adam and Eve who were - of course - white. Evolution of species is, perhaps, something that some people find hard to grasp. And that "race" is a social construct and not a taxonomic definition.

Spot on! In a book on genetics that I read recently, it pointed out that, not only does genetics not recognise ‘race’, but that if you find 3 people in a pub, one white and two ‘black’, then each of the black guys is most likely to be genetically more closely related to the white guy than to each other. Too hard to explain here, but it’s based broadly on the fact that relatively few of the original African humans migrated north and so the white folk interbred a lot and the Africans maintained a much bigger gene pool and so became very genetically diverse.

Oh, and the white folk became white, it’s assumed, to better absorb the lower levels of sunlight to synthesise vitamin D.