Yes, native European HGs, at least the ones classed as "Western European Hunter-Gatherers" (WHG) lacked the light skin alleles found in modern West Eurasians but had the mutations for light eyes, from what I remember. But the ones further to the east like on the Pontic-Caspian Steppe who had significant Ancient North Eurasian (ANE) / ancient Siberian admixture had some folks with light skin alleles and I believe also some light hair and eyes as well.
This study sounds shifty, though. WHGs across Europe were pretty similar genetically. I don't know if you could reliably differentiate between the ones in Britain and say the ones in Germany or Italy or the Balkans. And the bottomline is that when Anatolian Neolithic Farmers migrated into Europe around 7-8,000 years ago and brought agriculture from the Middle-East to Europe they very gradually intermixed with various WHG groups and became more native-Euro shifted overtime to create what geneticists call "Early European Farmers" and brought features like lighter skin and I believe lighter hair in part as well. So one way or another all Brits have a lot of WHG ancestry. In fact, it's one of the main things that makes them genetically separate from Middle-Easterners in this cluster. If it wasn't for WHG and EHG ancestry, Europeans in general would just overlap with MENAs here:
Because the rest of their ancestry is Anatolian Neolithic and Caucaus-HG-related which are straight out of the Middle-East and cline with modern MENAs. I'd illustrate this better if I could but I'm still laptop hunting.
More likely like the San or light-skin madows, I'd wager. I wouldn't even be surprised if they were comparable to West Africans but the level of dark skin that can occur in Nilotes or Horner nomads; not even close. That took additional mutations. And they could be dark in ice age Europe, as one very knowledgeable anthropologist who passed away a few years ago pointed out, because they got most of their vitamin D via diet. Hunter-Gatherers like them ate a shit ton of things like fish and/or meat depending on where they are. I barely get any sun nowadays but am fine Vitamin D levels wise cos of the absurd amount of fish, eggs and meat I consume.
This study sounds shifty, though. WHGs across Europe were pretty similar genetically. I don't know if you could reliably differentiate between the ones in Britain and say the ones in Germany or Italy or the Balkans. And the bottomline is that when Anatolian Neolithic Farmers migrated into Europe around 7-8,000 years ago and brought agriculture from the Middle-East to Europe they very gradually intermixed with various WHG groups and became more native-Euro shifted overtime to create what geneticists call "Early European Farmers" and brought features like lighter skin and I believe lighter hair in part as well. So one way or another all Brits have a lot of WHG ancestry. In fact, it's one of the main things that makes them genetically separate from Middle-Easterners in this cluster. If it wasn't for WHG and EHG ancestry, Europeans in general would just overlap with MENAs here:
Because the rest of their ancestry is Anatolian Neolithic and Caucaus-HG-related which are straight out of the Middle-East and cline with modern MENAs. I'd illustrate this better if I could but I'm still laptop hunting.
More likely like the San or light-skin madows, I'd wager. I wouldn't even be surprised if they were comparable to West Africans but the level of dark skin that can occur in Nilotes or Horner nomads; not even close. That took additional mutations. And they could be dark in ice age Europe, as one very knowledgeable anthropologist who passed away a few years ago pointed out, because they got most of their vitamin D via diet. Hunter-Gatherers like them ate a shit ton of things like fish and/or meat depending on where they are. I barely get any sun nowadays but am fine Vitamin D levels wise cos of the absurd amount of fish, eggs and meat I consume.
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