Khoisan South Africans acquired light skin gene from admixture with Cushitic pastoralists

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According to science.

“Skin pigmentation is under strong directional selection for reduced melanin density in northern European and Asian populations. Conversely, dark pigmentation is thought to be under stabilizing selection in equatorial populations exposed to intense ultraviolet radiation. We high-throughput sequenced pigmentation genes in over 400 individuals from South Africa and demonstrate that a canonical skin pigmentation gene, SLC24A5, experienced recent adaptive evolution in the KhoeSan populations of far southern Africa. The functionally caustive allele lightens basal skin pigmentation by 4 melanin units, explaining 11.9% variance in pigmentation in these populations. Haplotype analysis and demographic models indicate that the allele was introduced into the KhoeSan only within the past 3,000 years likely by eastern African pastoralists. The most common haplotype is shared among the KhoeSan, eastern Africans and Europeans but has risen to a frequency of 25%, far greater than expected given initial gene flow. The SLC24A5 locus is a rare example of strong, ongoing adaptation in very recent human history.”

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The guy is a xoolo abaayo lol.
How am I a xoolo for posting a peer reviewed study by Harvard?

If you have any problem with these findings then take it up with them:

“Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston”.

Just don’t forget to tell them that you have no background whatsoever in genetics, biology and heck even science.
 
How am I a xoolo for posting a peer reviewed study by Harvard?

If you have any problem with these findings then take it up with them:

“Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston”.

Just don’t forget to tell them that you have no background whatsoever in genetics, biology and heck even science.
Seems like my beautiful comment hit an ugly nerve :banderas:
 

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That's a good question actually. How come they are extremely light skin, but have the quintessential adoon features like large flat noses, and bee nappy hair. Very interesting
 

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That's a good question actually. How come they are extremely light skin, but have the quintessential adoon features like large flat noses, and bee nappy hair. Very interesting
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As you can see, South Africa where the Khoisan live is located quite far from the equator. The weather is really cool and can get really cold down there. So after acquiring the light skin gene from Cushitic pastoralists, local climate pressures which is absent in the the hot and arid Somalia gave them lighter skin.
 
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