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Abstract from scientific paper of "Eight thousand years of natural selection in Europe" the arrival of farming in Europe 8,500 years ago required adaptation.
Given that Western civilisation and Europe itself owe most of their nature, culture and history to Southern Europeans (Romans, Italians, Greeks, French with a big influx of Britons) I daresay that technically according to your standard Onefair Northerners aren't Europeans.
I don't know about that I think Celtic culture(s) has affected a lot on Western culture.
This isn't a thread on prejudice or on white supremacy if that's what you want to talk about start your own thread.
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Yes on an evolutionary scale, white skin as exemplified by Europeans and white people elsewhere around the world is relatively recent and no more than 8,000 years and is most likely to adaptation to northern climates, where the synthesis of Vitamin D is better with a lighter skin. The most ancient Europeans were primarily dark-skinned perhaps as dark as the modern Africans.
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Yes on an evolutionary scale, white skin as exemplified by Europeans and white people elsewhere around the world is relatively recent and no more than 8,000 years and is most likely to adaptation to northern climates, where the synthesis of Vitamin D is better with a lighter skin. The most ancient Europeans were primarily dark-skinned perhaps as dark as the modern Africans.
Finallly, finally, finally, finally, finally, at long long last somebody has posted something that actually has some sense about it instead of the constant threads of nonsense I've read on here from posters such as Onefair! Peoples skin tones have ALWAYS been about genetics, yes there are differences in the 'tone' of caucasion peoples skin but it has little to do with which part of the continent you live on and everything to do with genetics - ie just because you are born Scottish does NOT necessarily mean you will have luminous whit skin because of the environment. Yes short term you might be less 'tanned', yes you may still have naturally fair skin, yes 'on average' Italians may have a higher percentage of more 'olive skinned people. but you may also have a skin type the same as a Pole, a German, an Italian or a Swede. Being ginger and fair does NOT make Miguel Ángel Jiménez any less Spanish than Seve Ballesteros just like Sean Connery is just as pure Scottish as anybody with freckles.
Scottish people are whites, so is Sean Connery or Karen Gillan. Obviously people do vary even within the same group, but as a whole they are lighter-skinned than Central and Southern Europeans. There are many Italians/Spaniards who are blondes/redheads/fair-skinned, that's true, but the over-all percentage shows them to be darker than in general than the Northern Europeans.
Scottish people are whites, so is Sean Connery or Karen Gillan. Obviously people do vary even within the same group, but as a whole they are lighter-skinned than Central and Southern Europeans. There are many Italians/Spaniards who are blondes/redheads/fair-skinned, that's true, but the over-all percentage shows them to be darker than in general than the Northern Europeans.
Fundamentally Scottish people are well, Scottish. They have less melanin on average than southern Europeans - big deal. There skin isn't even White...
When I say modern Africans, I mean the people of the African continent, no specific group. We now should know that the first human group (Homo Sapien Sapiens) emerged from the continent of Africa and then from there went to settle gradually throughout the whole world. So the earliest humans were most likely dark-skinned, especially if we take the hot African climate in consideration, dark skin is beneficial in such conditions. A good example, African albinos didn't live long in primitive times, though if they lived in Europe they would have lived longer due to less damage from sunlight and lower risks for skin cancers.
Fundamentally Scottish people are well, Scottish. They have less melanin on average than southern Europeans - big deal. There skin isn't even White...
Skin isn't even White? Whatever that means.
Scottish people have on average less melanin than Southern Europeans, because their ancestors had to adapt to a cooler climate, with less sunshine than what you have in the Mediterranean.
These is a quotes from "Scientist Find A DNA Change That Accounts For White Skin" article which appeared on the Washington Post:
'They got a bigger surprise when they looked in a new database comparing the genomes of four of the world's major racial groups. That showed that whites with northern and western European ancestry have a mutated version of the gene.'
"Skin color is a reflection of the amount and distribution of the pigment melanin, which in humans protects against damaging ultraviolet rays but in other species is also used for camouflage or other purposes."
This is why Scots or northern Germans usually have a lighter skin than for example Italians or Greeks.
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