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Neanderthal Ancestors May Be To Blame For Why You Can't Get a Tan (telegraph.co.uk)
turkeydance shares a report from The Telegraph: If you struggle to get a tan, consider yourself a night owl or are plagued with arthritis, then your Neanderthal ancestors could be to blame, a new genetic study has shown. Although Neanderthals are often portrayed in drawings as swarthy, in fact they arrived in Northern Europe thousands of years before modern humans, giving time for their skin to become paler as their bodies struggled to soak up enough sun. When they interbred with modern humans those pale genes were passed on. Likewise, genetic mutations which predispose people to arthritis also came from our Neanderthal ancestors, as did the propensity to be a night owl rather than a lark, as northern latitudes altered their body clocks. A raft of new papers published in the journals Science and the American Journal of Human Genetics has shed light on just how many traits we owe to our Neanderthal ancestors.
Scientists also now think that differences in hair color, mood and whether someone will smoke or have an eating disorder could all be related to inter-breeding, after comparing ancient DNA to 112,000 British people who took part in the UK Biobank study. The Biobank includes genetic data along with information on many traits related to physical appearance, diet, sun exposure, behavior, and disease and helps scientists pick apart which traits came from Neanderthals. Dr Janet Kelso, of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Germany, said: "We can now show that it is skin tone, and the ease with which one tans, as well as hair color that are affected."
Scientists also now think that differences in hair color, mood and whether someone will smoke or have an eating disorder could all be related to inter-breeding, after comparing ancient DNA to 112,000 British people who took part in the UK Biobank study. The Biobank includes genetic data along with information on many traits related to physical appearance, diet, sun exposure, behavior, and disease and helps scientists pick apart which traits came from Neanderthals. Dr Janet Kelso, of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Germany, said: "We can now show that it is skin tone, and the ease with which one tans, as well as hair color that are affected."
Maybe they should check their white privilege.
Interesting, if only we could read it (without jumping through hoops).
Probably done entirely with public money, but not for the public.
Thank you.
If you struggle to get a tan, consider yourself a night owl or are plagued with arthritis
Stop spying on me, NSA!
Ezekiel 23:20
This is nothing even close to /. material.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
The article indicates that early humans developed strategies to avoid interbreeding, recognizing that there were dangers associated with doing so. Although many people consider religion ridiculous now, it may have provided a survival advantage at one time, promoting an orderly society. It seems like the attempts to avoid interbreeding may have also conferred a survival advantage, and that trait may persist to this day as racism and avoiding diversity. It makes me wonder if racism, awful as it is, may have once provided a very real survival advantage to early humans.
So, we're back to this again? Scientists picking a race (black, white, etc) they don't like, and inventing hypothetical scenarios, loosely based on fashionable models of biology and history, to claim that race is "less evolved"?
It doesn't matter what color a person's skin is, "rich privilege" wins out. People who end up with money love to pretend that it's natural for them to have it.
What does it say about your ancestry if you're kind of orange? Asking for a friend, well not a friend, it's just that he's unlike most human beings and I'm a bit worried about his erratic behaviour. I think he might try to do something (even more) stupid.
> Neanderthal Ancestors May Be To Blame For Why You Can't Get a Tan
They are also blamed for the plight of manga girls:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/13/03/13/1247255/manga-girls-beware-extra-large-eyes-caused-neanderthals-demise
Manga Girls Beware: Extra Large Eyes Caused Neanderthal's Demise
So the Neanderthals are snow whites, and the dark skin Africans came and raped them
We are the product of that rape
If Beau left his mother's basement, that's all he would need. His neanderthal parents, great-grandparents, and so on mean nothing.
All BeauHD needs to do is leave his mother's basement and go outside.
The more study results I see on /. the more I come under the opinion that studies aren't real science. Rather they're a means to prove a point using whatever means possible.
Black people are purebred and white people are impure? What does this mean for those in favor of racial cleansing?
Haha! Told you so! Fucking whities hit cavewomen, news at 11! Putin you!
You have to be African for that.
that's Sin/Cos isn't it ?
I didn't know neanderthals had worked out trigonometry
2.5% Neanderthal, and about 80% European. I tan just fine.
Just do it like the Neanderthal-in-Chief and use Tan-in-Bottle.
I don't understand the claim made by the headline. I don't know a single person that can't tan no matter their skin tone. I'm pretty dark and I still tan.
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We're the real victims of cultural appropriation - we invented the wheel.
So, how does it feel to be a member of the Illuminati?
"Neanderthal Ancestors May Be To Blame For Why You Can't Get a Tan"
I can tan just fine, it's feeling included I have problems with.
... and realize that a tan is nothing more and nothing less that visible evidence of UV damage correlated with an increased risk of malignant melanoma.
Skin cancer is no joke, and no fashion statement.
I got bad hair from my mom. I stink cuz of my grandpa. I have bunions cuz of my great-grandmothers mail man. I highly doubt anyhow that its only because of neaderthal's as almost any creature that can live a long time gets ware and tear.. as in arthritis.
-Arzaboa
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"Respect your Elders!" -- Grandpa.
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