Why are Europeans white

[Triggaaar]

Discuss

 

[ditchy]

they are not all white

 

[teaboy]

A quirk of Evolution. That is all.

 

[vulture]

because during the ice age white skin was better for the extreme cold

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Discuss

Look at the England team - I'm sure some aren't white !!!!

 

[bluenitsuj]

Thats like saying Africans are all Black

 

[Bold Seagull]

Vitamin D



Is the very short answer.

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

Thats like saying Africans are all Black

No, that's New Zealanders

 

[beorhthelm]

something to do with melanin, the absorbation of UV and its use in producing Vitamin D. as you have less UV in northern europe, there's less vitamin D produced so losing the melanin is beneficial.

 

[Triggaaar]

Thats like saying Africans are all Black

If I was saying all Europeans were white, yes it would, but I'm really asking why any are white.

Vitamin D



Is the very short answer.

I didn't want the short answer, I wanted the correct one. Try again

 

[bluenitsuj]

No, that's New Zealanders

Exactly my point

 

[00snook]

Discuss

I am offended by this thread on behalf of White Europeans

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Why are "My Loves" all white ?

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

Why are "My Loves" all white ?

Mine is like a red red rose
That gently does something in June, I can't remember what. Blooms maybe?

 

[Badger]

Because God ran out of brown paint OBVIOUSLY.

 

[Bold Seagull]

I didn't want the short answer, I wanted the correct one. Try again

UV light produces vitamin D, but also reduces folate when it hits the skin. Lack of folate of course effects reproduction (hence mothers take folic acid). As prehistoric groups migrated, they evolved according to their exposure to UV light (otherwise they would have died out).

However that doesn't explain why Europeans, on the same latitude as many other humans have much lighter skin tone. The big change came in agriculture and the consumption of grains (which contain no Vitamin D) which started in Europe approx. 10,000 years ago. Up until then man had been hunter gathers mainly eating meats and fish which contain Vitamin D.

So the short answer is still Vitamin D.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Mine is like a red red rose
That gently does something in June, I can't remember what. Blooms maybe?

Very good.

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

Because God ran out of brown paint OBVIOUSLY.

He must have saved some for me!

 

[mune ni kamome]

More pink if you ask me

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

The big change came in agriculture and the consumption of grains (which contain no Vitamin D) which started in Europe approx. 10 years ago. .

Bloody Blair.