• kristina [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    9 months ago

    its my understanding that the original aboriginal population is ancient and didnt have much admixture from other groups… in fact dravidians share more genetic and linguistic ties with a european than a pre-european contact aboriginal australian would with dravidians

    almost all ‘racial’ adaptations e.g. light skin are all relatively recent too, when the aboriginal australians split off from the mainland pretty much everyone in the world would have been very dark skinned at the time. all those humans back then likely would have looked quite different from ethnicities today

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      9 months ago

      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

  • glimmer_twin [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    9 months ago

    We should post pictures of ugly ass crackers next to conventionally attractive non-white people and ask if people think they’re the same species