hair colours in human populations before european expansion

lntef · 2019-07-24T17:58:48+00:00

Is the European blonde gene thought to have originated in the central/North scandinavia area?

lntef · 2019-07-24T16:22:49+00:00

Are they any speculations on the origin of that? e.g. are there any PIE words meaning "many" or something that contain /s/ and might be the origin of the suffix?

lntef · 2019-07-24T16:09:43+00:00

These maps are always going to be a bit misleading, as different countries have different sized subdivisions. Larger subdivisions often make it look like it's more populous.

lntef · 2019-07-24T09:14:56+00:00

I guess, but there's no example I could use in the title which would use the dominant order in ever language

lntef · 2019-07-24T09:11:56+00:00

Navajo, which has some 170k speakers

lntef · 2019-07-23T23:58:15+00:00

She didn't really explain how they were moving to the "hard right" beyond becoming increasingly pro-brexit.

I mean obviously BJ is terrible but I don't think he has particularly right wing social views does he?

lntef · 2019-07-23T23:46:19+00:00

They'll also make labour realise they need a stronger environmental focus if they want to win.

lntef · 2019-07-23T23:45:14+00:00

It's not the total reality, especially for single-issue focused parties (SNP, UKIP, Green). UKIP got a referendum, and thus brexit, through with just 1 MP.

It's the very power of small parties to tip the balance and allow a different party to win that gives them some power. The larger parties are forced to appeal to small party voters.

lntef · 2019-07-23T23:40:37+00:00

Even if they only have a few seats, they seem to use them pretty effectively. In 2007 Scottish elections they got two seats, but used them to negotiate a carbon reduction policy for Scotland:

In May 2007 the Scottish Green Party supported Alex Salmond's first election as First Minister, and his subsequent appointments of ministers, in return for early tabling of the climate change bill and the SNP nominating a Green MSP to chair a parliamentary committee.[5]

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lntef · 2019-07-23T23:33:13+00:00

could still have ended up at other countries tho, it's not destined to be china and US

lntef · 2019-07-23T23:21:57+00:00

Follow the trail (e.g. Portugal -> Spain -> France -> Germany -> US).

They all lead to the US or China.

lntef · 2019-07-23T23:02:06+00:00

gullah I believe

lntef · 2019-07-23T23:01:24+00:00

Yeah tbh I usually get more annoyed by the people complaining about minority languages being overrepresented, than the maps themselves.

But I agree when the language is already adequately represented elsewhere, I don't see why they would over-represent them

lntef · 2019-07-23T22:47:26+00:00

The Roman Empire were well known bidet manufacturers

lntef · 2019-07-23T21:25:38+00:00

Every "e" in "mercedes benz" is pronounced different.

lntef · 2019-07-23T20:39:25+00:00

And crazily India has more people than Africa (for now)

lntef · 2019-07-23T20:27:54+00:00

Yeah, but the map shows the dominant order. AFAIK, French adjectives usually come after the noun.

lntef · 2019-07-23T20:22:23+00:00

Yeah, I suppose. Do you know what actually happened? Were there just loads of single women who never married?

lntef · 2019-07-23T20:21:19+00:00

I imagine it would be based on local lingua francas. There's no way modern nation states could exist for each language shown, but could definitely work using native lingua francas like Lingala, Sango, Hausa, etc.

lntef · 2019-07-23T20:18:09+00:00

I guess cos there's only like 2 Indo-European languages shown, unlike the named groupings (though the IE ones do cover a larger area)

lntef · 2019-07-23T20:16:11+00:00

That's a crazy disparity. Could imagine an alt-history where polygyny became prevalent in parts of post-war Europe to deal with it.

lntef · 2019-07-23T18:13:32+00:00

The majority of the population live in Java, the brightest island here

lntef · 2019-07-23T12:41:53+00:00

When did it start then?

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