European Anthropologists Try To Salvage Some Pride Contending They Are Descended From Hunters Not that there's anything wrong with being a farmer. Let me say that up front. But farming ain't where the Cadillacs are, if you know what I mean. If you meet a girl and tell her you can plant a seed and watch it grow for 4 months, it doesn't exactly instill the same kind of old-school, animalistic confidence as it does if you let her know you can gut and skin a buck and have some meat on the table by dinner time. So the news that European DNA in the old skeletons probably didn't come from middle eastern farmers migrating across the continent is likely a welcome relief when middle easterners are rioting across France. More middle eastern migration news seems to be a bad thing these days. And it isn't like anyone thinks the modern French were descended from hunters or farmers anyway. We all know they are descended from cowards and traitors, since pretty much all of the cool French people were killed in World War 2. The article appears in next week's SCIENCE magazine or you can see some news in the link below. Article Here