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From: "Annie, The WritingTeacher" <>
Subject: [DNA] Y line also covered in Archaegenetics population prehistory of Europe book
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 15:25:08 -0700


I also found several articles on the Y line in Archaeogenetics on the
population prehistory of Europe. For example, Irish Y chromosomes, India,
the Caucasus, and most everything you want to know at least to get started
with excellent bibliographies, on the Y and mtDNA of prehistoric Europe
compared to modern, etc. I enjoyed the article on the skeletons of
Cro-Magnons found in Spain 20,000 years ago or more that resemble the
present population of Sweden today, ancient Basques, and some others, etc.

You can look it over in most any university library and see whether the
articles or the bibliographies at the end of each chapter guide you to want
you want to know. It has the names of the researchers, etc. so you can read
other studies by them. I was most interested to see how far H haplogroup has
traveled in prehistoric times and found it stretched from Spain to the Urals
and from the Med to Scandinavia. It made me wonder whether the diet of fish
and spinach these prehistoric people lived on before they domesticated
animals allowed so many children of H to survive to comprise up to 60% of
Europe today.

My question is if Cro-Magnon humans in Europe and N. Africa were an average
6 feet tall for the men and 5'6-5'10 for the women when they didn't know
farming, just ate fish, shellfish, and low-carb vegetables, and lots of nuts
and seeds/roots, (not potatoes)and grain belt farming brought down their
height to 5 feet for the women and five feet two-four for the men in
neolithic times, as well as degenerative diseases and tooth decay, would the
paleolithic diet--no grains, beans, milk, just fish, fruit, vegetables, and
once in a while lean reindeer meat, wipe out diabetes and similar diseases
such as auto-immune diseases (diabetes)said to be brought on by the
neolithic grain and bread/beans diet? (Exception is lentils)? Or did
paleolithic hunters suffer from protein poisioning versus raisin sugar
poisoning of neolithics?

Any relation between DNA and diet? I was told the African body is tall and
lean and the Ice Age body is short, stocky, and Neanderthaloid--that is
built to conserve heat in a frigid climate. Any opinons?

Anne

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