Dark skin, blue eyes: Genes paint a picture of 7,000-year-old European
Sunday, January 26, 2014 - 13:31
in Biology & Nature
A 7,000-year-old man whose bones were left behind in a Spanish cave had the dark skin of an African, but the blue eyes of a Scandinavian. He was a hunter-gatherer who ate a low-starch diet and couldn't digest milk well — which meshes with the lifestyle that predated the rise of agriculture.