Genome sequence of 7000-year-old human remains overturns popular image of light-skinned European hunter-gatherers
• Comment: Why are blue eyes so fascinating?DNA taken from the wisdom tooth of a European hunter-gatherer has given scientists an unprecedented glimpse of contemporary humans before the rise of farming. The Mesolithic man,who lived in Spain around 7000 years ago, had an strange mix of blue eyes, and black or brown hair,and gloomy skin, according to analyses of his genetic make-up.
He was probably lactose intolerant and had more difficulty digesting starchy foods than the farmers who transformed diets and lifestyles when they took up tools in the first agricultural revolution.
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Source: theguardian.com