Dark-Skinned Europeans?

Fair hair, light skin, and tall people came to Europe 8,000 years ago, according to a team of international scientists, who have studied genes of 83 fossilised ice-age people discovered in excavations throughout Europe.

1Dark-skinned Homo sapiens conquer Europe 40,000 years ago.

2People in Spain, Luxembourg, and Hungary were still darkskinned 8,500 years ago.

3The gene for light skin came to Central and Southern Europe from the east 7,800 years ago.

4The genes for blue eyes and light skin are known from Motala, Sweden, 7,700 years ago.

5The light skin mutation appeared in Central and Southern Europe some 5,500 years ago.

6Genes that boosted height came to Europe with the Yamna culture from the Russian steppes