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Originally Posted by Sun Belt
First Briton from 10,000 years ago:
Side note: isn't it amazing how quickly skin will turn white in a period of 10,000 years! |
To be fair, the original black skinned population of Western Europe was mostly wiped out genetically speaking - first by a population of farmers spreading from the Near East (which took on no more than 30% of their DNA from the hunter gatherers as they spread into Europe) and later by the expansion of a population from the steppe who were almost certainly speakers of Indo-European languages. In Britain in particular it's estimated that when the Indo-Europeans migrated in over 90% of the indigenous population of Britain died out within a few generations, leading to a population shift as dramatic as that involved in the settling of the Americas.