"New gene variants reveal the evolution of human skin color"

[Martin Eden Mercury]

"The first surprise was that SLC24A5, which swept Europe, is also common in East Africa—found in as many as half the members of some Ethiopian groups. This variant arose 30,000 years ago and was probably brought to eastern Africa by people migrating from the Middle East, Tishkoff says. But though many East Africans have this gene, they don’t have white skin, probably because it is just one of several genes that shape their skin color."

"The team also found variants of two neighboring genes, HERC2 and OCA2, which are associated with light skin, eyes, and hair in Europeans but arose in Africa; these variants are ancient and common in the light-skinned San people. The team proposes that the variants arose in Africa as early as 1 million years ago and spread later to Europeans and Asians. “Many of the gene variants that cause light skin in Europe have origins in Africa,” Tishkoff says."

In 2017 this was news

And here we are 7 years later in 2024

It's amazing that so many people still refuse to accept the science behind the debunking of beliefs on race.

and there we have it. Science.

 

[Cassandro]

What is your explanation for different hair types among different populations? When humans first migrated out of Africa, did they have dark kinky hair? If so, what caused them to lose this seemingly dominant trait? Could it have been the admixture of other human species to their gene pools?