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To: Oberon; stremba

Skin color is evidence of evolution. It filters the sunlight to affect vitamin D concentrations, especially important in pregnant women for infant mortality.

Going from highest sunlight environment to lowest, Africa to Scandanavia you go from darkest skin to lightest in a gradient.

Allele frequency change in populations over time=EVOLUTION.


213 posted on 02/13/2005 4:46:38 PM PST by shubi (Peace through superior firepower.)
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To: shubi

That "gradient" was caused by interbreeding, Arabs are darker due to importation of slaves and southern europeans are tanned due to medieval Muslim invasions.


215 posted on 02/13/2005 4:55:41 PM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth...)
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To: shubi
Skin color is evidence of evolution.

It must have evolved really fast! (or did it change UNDER our ancestors fur??


Going from highest sunlight environment to lowest, Africa to Scandanavia you go from darkest skin to lightest in a gradient.

Over a years time, most any spot on Earth recieves the same amount of daytime and night.

238 posted on 02/14/2005 6:03:31 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: shubi
Skin color is evidence of evolution. It filters the sunlight to affect vitamin D concentrations, especially important in pregnant women for infant mortality.

Going from highest sunlight environment to lowest, Africa to Scandanavia you go from darkest skin to lightest in a gradient.

Allele frequency change in populations over time=EVOLUTION.

I agree that micro-evolution is one paradigm that fits the observed conditions. Is it the only possible one?

I will grant you that it seems an adequate answer, and inasmuch as I'm qualified to judge such things, it's probably correct. However, I should observe that regional variation in melanin content in human skin is a far cry from speciation. Making the leap from micro-evolution to macro-evolution isn't supported by observation.

That doesn't mean it's wrong, mind you; it just means that it isn't proven.

256 posted on 02/14/2005 9:21:24 AM PST by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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