Sentences with phrase «includes gene hunters»

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First Farmers (Middle East and Europe 3,000 - 14,000 years ago) Analyses of hundreds of genomes show how early Middle Eastern farmers spread to Europe, mixed with hunter - gatherers and adapted to agricultural diets, including through a lactase gene mutation that allowed people to drink milk after childhood.

One surprise in the genetic data is that both populations of Native Americans have a small admixture of genes from East Asians and Australo - Melanesians, including Papuans, Solomon Islanders and Southeast Asian hunter gatherers.

In addition, the data reveal that this was a more genetically diverse population than the central and western European hunter - gatherers living during the same epoch and that they also show pattern of adaptation to high latitude environments, including high frequencies of low pigmentation variants as well as a gene region associated with physical performance, which shows strong continuity into modern - day northern Europeans.

Some scientific problems with modern paleo movement include: 1) dogmatic insistence on the Raymond Dart model of «man the hunter», which has been contested and supplanted in paleoanthropology for decades; 2) ignorance about the speed of evolutionary adaptation, for example our very recent acquisition of lactase persistence and high amylase gene number; 3) focus on the diets of 80 - 10,000 years ago, dismissing the 40 million years when our lineage were predominantly herbivorous forest dwellers.