New Discoveries in the Origins of Light Skin

Alekzandra Thoms

  

It was once believe that light skinned people had existed for more than 40, 000 years; that the latitudes and longitudes had to peak to permit such a thing. But new studies have found that light skin originated only about 7, 000 years ago! It turns out that, in 2006, 7, 000 year old skeletons were found in Spain buried in characteristically Paleolithic way. Years after this discovery, technologies were advanced enough that the DNA from a molar could be tested. Consequently, scientist Lalueza-Fox says that the man had genes for blue eyes, but not light skin. This was surprising to people that a fairly modern Spaniard had dark skin.

After many studies, it was tentatively concluded that dietary changes from the dramatic conversion to agriculture during the Neolithic Revolution had a major part in this huge change in pigmentation. It is believed that their sudden lack in Vitamin – D, as well as their need to synthesize it more readily, played a big part in the loss of pigmentation.

This discovery was quite shocking to me. For all of the white people claiming to be elite to dark skinned people, we didn't even exist until 13,999,993,000 years after the universe came into being - that's 569,993,000 years after the first signs of human life, and we only came into being because we weren't eating right. #america

http://www.livescience.com/42838-european-hunter-gatherer-genome-sequenced.html