Fat-Adapted Japanese Hunter-Gatherers

The Jomon Period: The Jōmon period (縄文時代Jōmon jidai) is the time in Japanese prehistory, traditionally dated between c.14,000–300 BCE,[1][2] recently refined to about 1000 BCE,[1][3][4] during which Japan was inhabited by a hunter-gatherer culture, which reached a considerable degree of sedentism and cultural complexity. -Wikipedia.

https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2019051301123/team-decodes-whole-genome-of-woman-in-japan’s-jomon-period.html?fbclid=IwAR2uixJBys2BPYgH-g9Odooy5WasXXDRuJLoqBQsusbtVZzX9vqzi8R7kIs

“Among other discoveries are that the Jomon woman had brown eyes and thin hair as well as high alcohol tolerance, and was genetically adapted to a high-fat diet. At the Funadomari site, many sea lion bones have been dug up.”

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