Why have whites been more dominant?

[Barcon]

Hehe. Windburn?

 

[Banned Tosspot]

Hehe. Windburn?

Lol

 

[pee dubya]

Allright, at the risk of sounding stupid, with all this talk of climate affecting skin colour, why are eskimo's dark skinned?

At a guess, because it's exposure to light and UV rays not overall temperature that dictates skin colour and maybe the light relfects strongly off the white ice and snow around them, and water as well?

 

[lloydie]

Allright, at the risk of sounding stupid, with all this talk of climate affecting skin colour, why are eskimo's dark skinned?

covered earlier, high vitamin D content in diet means they do not need to convert it in skin which is inhibited by melatonin (present in high quantities in dark skin)

 

[pee dubya]

A quick search says it's because they eat so much oily fish which is rich in Vitamin D meaning they don't need to convert sunlight to Vit D. People with darker skin convert light to Vit D less effectively, so as Humans moved north, lower sun exposure meant they needed to lighten their skin colour in order to create enough Vit D, the Eskimos originate from further south where darker skin is normal, but because of their diet haven't needed to develop lighter skin.

Oh, sorted already, ah well.

 

[BitterBlue94]

ok i read the first 9 pages then jumped too the last 2, so sorry if this is a repeat of something thats already been said.

Here's my take on it,
As we agree that we (the human race) come from Africa / Euthopia.
It took a certain type of brain to pack up and explore the unknown world taking the risk of venturing into the great unknown without maps and hotels takes great thinking.
Anyway i guess after a few decades as people settled in europe and gradually became paler (perhaps because of lack of vitamins), we passed on the gene to our next generation.
So as the generations went by, the desire to explore was still there and then as White Euros, went back out there and took over other countries
Brought back the knowledge and advanced it by taking it a little futher as we need to inorder to use it better. They also knew that by keeping those countries under controll, by stopping them developing futher, and keeping them back. we could advance much quicker, and charge them for it.. Plundering their natural resorces.

Just thinking about this, what about native Australians? There ancestors had the certain type of brain to get up and leave Africa, yet never developed like the Europeans did.

 

[bluezi]

ok i read the first 9 pages then jumped too the last 2, so sorry if this is a repeat of something thats already been said.

Here's my take on it,
As we agree that we (the human race) come from Africa / Euthopia.
It took a certain type of brain to pack up and explore the unknown world taking the risk of venturing into the great unknown without maps and hotels takes great thinking.
Anyway i guess after a few decades as people settled in europe and gradually became paler (perhaps because of lack of vitamins), we passed on the gene to our next generation.
So as the generations went by, the desire to explore was still there and then as White Euros, went back out there and took over other countries
Brought back the knowledge and advanced it by taking it a little futher as we need to inorder to use it better. They also knew that by keeping those countries under controll, by stopping them developing futher, and keeping them back. we could advance much quicker, and charge them for it.. Plundering their natural resorces.

Just thinking about this, what about native Australians? There ancestors had the certain type of brain to get up and leave Africa, yet never developed like the Europeans did.

I was kind of getting at brain development and certain cognative thinking in certain types of people. Skin colour doesn't really come into at that time. Yes, as said lack of vitamins such as vit D , Iron would lead to people becoming Anemic.. and after several hundreds of years the body compensates for the lack of these.

 

[lloydie]

Im waiting for someone to mention skull measurements. Some absolute shite written here. Some posters talking crap rather than discuss the real issues, others too fearful of being called racist to discuss the real issues.

Do tell....

.....still waiting....

 

[BitterBlue94]

Just thinking about this, what about native Australians? There ancestors had the certain type of brain to get up and leave Africa, yet never developed like the Europeans did.

I was kind of getting at brain development and certain cognative thinking in certain types of people. Skin colour doesn't really come into at that time. Yes, as said lack of vitamins such as vit D , Iron would lead to people becoming Anemic.. and after several hundreds of years the body compensates for the lack of these.

Like the body compensating lack of physical strength with more brain power?

 

[bluezi]

Yes.
Some say that in the very far future we will no longer need our bodies we will just be heads brain power etc. Robots and computers will do all the work that is required. like running power supplys and repairs we will controll everything with our minds, attached to wires not telepathy, then again i could be wrong on the telepathy.