At 07:08 1998-07-10 -0400, Don wrote:

>but my ancestors are from Northern Europe.

Yes since maximum 10-12 kya. And from middle or southern since
perhaps 40-50 kya. (At that time subarctic grasslands.)
And probably from Afrika until 60-100 kya and that is what counts
in my opinion.
500 generations or so back our ancestors were also black,
or at least dark brown, I think.
I would like to know what has been available for humans to eat
in east Afrika the latest two million years.
There is no guarantee that people have not mistakedly eaten not so
good food, just because it was readily available, in the same way
that junk food is eaten today. If mammoths were easy to hunt, of
course that was what was on the dinner table, although gnus and
tubers might have been better for them.

- Hans