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To: Waverunner
So at the end of the last ice age, or the beginning of the global warming period, When people could move North, they lost their tans. Frikkin Scientific Geniuses they are.

Well, no, you're not quite getting it. Moving North doesn't make skin whiter (if that were true, there wouldn't be any black people in the US). Rather, mutations in genes, favored by natural selection, make skin whiter.

This study indicates that the mutations of interest occurred later than earlier hypotheses had suggested, but long after the first human beings migrated to Europe.

40 posted on 04/27/2007 11:16:11 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Alter Kaker
Moving North doesn't make skin whiter (if that were true, there wouldn't be any black people in the US).

Compare the skin tones of an Afro-American to an African. People whose ancestry dates back to antebellum America are distinctly paler than recent African immigrants.

81 posted on 04/28/2007 7:54:17 AM PDT by null and void (The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.)
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