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Angela said:some people haven't quite absorbed the fact that the WHG were darker than the farmers.
But the WHG lived in Western Europe. Eastern European EHG and Scandinavian SHG were much lighter.
Some people haven't quite absorbed the fact that Eastern Europe - and not Western Europe - was the "cradle of White people".
Also, the WHG contribution to modern European gene pool seems to be very limited, if we look at this:
https://s12.postimg.io/bszjn5fbx/sweeping_migrations.png
Grey component was present in Mesolithic Russia among the EHG, and later in the Pontic Steppe
Blue component was present in Mesolithic Western Europe among the WHG, and in Scandinavia
Bronze Age Europeans had much more of grey component (ultimately derived from the EHG). Also as a matter of fact the EHG and the later Steppe groups (Copper Age and Bronze Age) were generally lighter-pigmented than Anatolian farmers.
So Northern European pigmentation does not come from Anatolia, but from those "Aryans" in the Pontic-Caspian Steppe.
Look at modern Sardinians or Sicilians - their moderately light pigmentation indeed comes from Anatolian farmers.
Some people apparently still haven't quite absorbed the fact that, originally, "White" = "Indo-European".
OK, OK, you are going to respond: "but the Yamnaya were still in fact quite swarthy!". Maybe they were.
But there were other Bronze Age Steppe groups, such as Srubnaya or Sintashta, who were much lighter.