06-16-2004, 03:16 PM
I find difficult to prove that genetic pool wasn´t overall changed, because we don´t know what was like any genetic pool in the first time. For insyance, if you take France<br>
1) Select a territory, and we start having problems, where are the borders of modern France, or ancient Gallia, which as we all know was divided in 3 parts.<br>
2) How do you stablish a set of genetic characters that are patircular to that ancient population?<br>
3) How do you distinguish them from additions?<br>
External look is a very poor guide. Hair and skin colour are subject to variation along the life of people, blue eyes are recessive, so you can have some blue eyes genes and still got brown eyes. I suspect there were always some tall blonde people in Aquitania, even in Caesar´s time, according to Sidonius Apollinaris Burgundians were very tall for instance.<br>
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1) Select a territory, and we start having problems, where are the borders of modern France, or ancient Gallia, which as we all know was divided in 3 parts.<br>
2) How do you stablish a set of genetic characters that are patircular to that ancient population?<br>
3) How do you distinguish them from additions?<br>
External look is a very poor guide. Hair and skin colour are subject to variation along the life of people, blue eyes are recessive, so you can have some blue eyes genes and still got brown eyes. I suspect there were always some tall blonde people in Aquitania, even in Caesar´s time, according to Sidonius Apollinaris Burgundians were very tall for instance.<br>
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