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Who's Your Daddy?
Joined: 30 May 2010
Location: Victoria, Canada.
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 Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 11:59 pm Post subject: Why do people have different hair color? |
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| Okay. So I was sitting in church at the back, when I thought, jeez I'm the only one whose hair isn't black. So I'm thinking about it, why do Europeans have different hair colors? Or conversely why do non-Europeans have only black hair? Is their some Darwinist explanation of selection? Curious. |
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Steve_Rogers2008
Joined: 22 Mar 2010
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| Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 1:06 am Post subject: |
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or why do Asians all have the same color hair? 
and while we're on philosophical inquires.... What if C-A-T spelled DOG?  |
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Alphabet_Stew
Joined: 13 Jun 2010
Location: Earth
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| Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 1:22 am Post subject: |
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OP - why do you want all people to have the same hair color?
ain't different hair, eye, skin color ok?
its called evolution. |
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interestedinhanguk
Joined: 23 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 1:25 am Post subject: |
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| I have no words for this thread... |
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Globutron
Joined: 13 Feb 2010
Location: England/Anyang
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| Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 2:01 am Post subject: |
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There was a theory that the colour of hair was lightened to attract attention from all the dark haired goons. And then the lighter hair became more successful etc.
But that doesn't make much sense to me.
It's more about location and diversification of genetic material. I'm sure a quick google can give you a yahoo answer. |
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fugitive chicken
Joined: 20 Apr 2010
Location: Bucheon
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| Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 4:41 am Post subject: |
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| inbreeding |
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blackjack
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: anyang
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| Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 6:44 am Post subject: |
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| Globutron wrote: |
There was a theory that the colour of hair was lightened to attract attention from all the dark haired goons. And then the lighter hair became more successful etc.
But that doesn't make much sense to me.
It's more about location and diversification of genetic material. I'm sure a quick google can give you a yahoo answer. |
You would probably find the answer in gene linkages |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 7:38 am Post subject: |
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| I dated a redhead several years ago. The curtains matched the carpet. |
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Wishmaster
Joined: 06 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 8:50 am Post subject: |
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| Shot in the dark here...uh, genetics? |
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wishfullthinkng
Joined: 05 Mar 2010
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| Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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I'm fairly sure it was an evolutionary design created by the flying spaghetti monster so that it could easily distinguish what ethnicity it needed to pluck up with it's noodly appendage for a sacrifice-marinara whilst flying overhead.
You can quote me on this. |
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Kaypea
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| Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Why do some of my students have dyed hair when they aren't allowed to dye their hair? |
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NYC_Gal
Joined: 08 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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| wishfullthinkng wrote: |
I'm fairly sure it was an evolutionary design created by the flying spaghetti monster so that it could easily distinguish what ethnicity it needed to pluck up with it's noodly appendage for a sacrifice-marinara whilst flying overhead.
You can quote me on this. |
I deny piracy as an evil lie promulgated by the evil Chef Boyardee in his failed attempt to usurp control of the True Church: The Reformed Church of Alfredo. |
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detourne_me
Joined: 26 May 2006
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I remeber watching some documentary about it, and one of the latest theories is that the European branch of homo sapiens were kind of stunted evolutionarily for about 10 000 years. They got caught in a small pocket of the ice age when earlier branches from Africa (first across India to Australia, and second across Asia and into the Americas) went out and began settling.
Because of that time in the ice skin pigment had to change to, i dunno, become more compatible with the environment.
It's strange, The European branch had a kind of late start on the evolutionary game (body hair, heavy features), but that kind of gave them an advantage for faster adaptation to the environment. |
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simpleminds
Joined: 04 May 2006
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| detourne_me wrote: |
I remeber watching some documentary about it, and one of the latest theories is that the European branch of homo sapiens were kind of stunted evolutionarily for about 10 000 years. They got caught in a small pocket of the ice age when earlier branches from Africa (first across India to Australia, and second across Asia and into the Americas) went out and began settling.
Because of that time in the ice skin pigment had to change to, i dunno, become more compatible with the environment.
It's strange, The European branch had a kind of late start on the evolutionary game (body hair, heavy features), but that kind of gave them an advantage for faster adaptation to the environment. |
Now that's an interesting theory. Whites have less melanin and so are more unsuitable in hot climes, since melanin helps prevent the DNA responsible for the formation of malignant melanoma and other skin cancers. They get more Vitamin D in colder climes, though.
I watched a doc about genetic diversity in a group of islanders near Indonesia. They have neen isolated so long, their genetic make-up is more black than Asian. Blacks appareantly have the highest diversity of genes, then whites, then asians. The isolation in the Ice Age would account for more recessive genes, genes more suitable for colder climes, to prevail. |
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