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[–]GConly 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I know they have that one picture of Cheddar Man on wiki where he is quite ruddy and tan, and you are saying that he would be much darker,

He'd have been an intermediate skin tone, the DNA tests show that. Think heavy tan. Not African black.

and yet not know of the mesolithic Europeans who were primarily coastal and eventually got bred out in most places except for some of the last Berber tribes in North Africa, the Basque, and some pockets in Scotland and Ireland.

The Mesolithic Europeans you are referring too get referred to as Western Hunter Gatherers, or WHG.

And they don't exist intact anywhere, they were replaced by Neolithic farmers about 6k ago.

The Berbers are mainly of Capsian pre Neolithic and Neolithic west Asian ancestry. They aren't at all related to the WHG.

There are no relic populations if the WHG anywhere. Just some mtdna left in modern people.

I'm sorry but your level of misunderstanding of the DNA studies is appalling.

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I basically was trying to say exactly this: "There are no relic populations of the WHG anywhere. Just some mtdna left in modern people.

That is a relic of their population, appearing in the populations of those they mixed with. Basques being one of them. There are other examples, but modern academia is currently disagreeing about their origin, so I won't mention them.

[–]GConly 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

All of Europe has a little WHG ancestry. Basque mitochondrial DNA is mainly of Neolithic origin, same as the rest of us.

They aren't much different.