Yeah I mention this to people all the time. I had to get my genome sequenced once for something health related and as a fun little thing they added that I'm probably related to the ancient human known as the Cheddar Man. He was a particularly well preserved skeleton found in Somerset, England dating from around 10,000 years ago. The DNA found on him suggests he had very dark skin and hair, blue/green eyes, and lactose intolerance, which would have been very standard for western Europeans back then.
Native Australians date from even further back. People got there around 50,000 years ago and ended up nearly isolated for millenia.
White people just see brown skin and immediately start clumping people together
Yeah I mention this to people all the time. I had to get my genome sequenced once for something health related and as a fun little thing they added that I'm probably related to the ancient human known as the Cheddar Man. He was a particularly well preserved skeleton found in Somerset, England dating from around 10,000 years ago. The DNA found on him suggests he had very dark skin and hair, blue/green eyes, and lactose intolerance, which would have been very standard for western Europeans back then.
Native Australians date from even further back. People got there around 50,000 years ago and ended up nearly isolated for millenia.
White people just see brown skin and immediately start clumping people together
What a cruel irony for Cheddar Man to be lactose intolerant.
He would be proud to know that I, as a fellow member of his haplogroup,
Hard cheeses like Cheddar contain very little lactose actually
Race pseudoscience in a nutshell (and also a major reason it isn't actual science)