That is sooo stupid. If we evolved from monkies, then why do asians look different to africans?
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Somebody is showing interest! And what a fantastic question! That does actually deserve a proper answer!
It is about Vitamin D. Dark (Melanin rich) skin does let little sun radiation in the body, where it is needed to produce Vitamin D. Without Vitamin D we would have weak bones etc. The further north people spread the less sun was available all year long. Pregnancies last 9 month and only those mothers had "successful" pregnancies who had enough Vitamin D throughout the whole time, either by nutrition (which was a matter of luck and chance) or by sunlight, which was a matter of skin color. That is why people outside of Africa became paler over the generations, one group went east and found rich food sources in Asia, the other group went to Europe/Caucasus and became extremely pale for sparse supply of Vitamin D. Until they finally came up with agriculture and developed a prolonged expression of the childhood gene "lactase" which enabled degenerated Caucasians to use Vitamin D rich milk as food supply in adulthood (e.g. during pregnancy). Of course pale skin is also a problem concerning DNA damaging UV radiation, again, especially during pregnancy.
Yeah, you got it right there, all humans used to be black one day, Caucasians are mutants. And it should not be called lactose intolerance, because that is still the normal case for most of Asian/South American/African population, we should call it "prolonged lactose permissibility syndrome" when we talk about consuming diary products.
That is sooo stupid. If your god made everyone in his image, then why do asians look different to africans?
Ya know there idiot, your question is actually quite the example of evolution...not the kind your pastor teaches, the kind that science actually supports
because about 7500 years ago, the Sumerians started rudimentary farming of a few specific crops, and were therefore forced to adapt to a monotonous diet which was deficient in certain nutrients, and carried elements of genetic drift with them. Or to rephrase that, we continue to adapt to our environment in the context of this thing we call.. oh forget it.
> That is sooo stupid. If we evolved from monkies,
Ha! I know how to answer this one! *raises finger and draws breath*
> then why do asians look different to africans?
*pauses, with a stupid look on her face*
...actually, I don't know how to answer this one.
"If we evolved from monkies, then why do asians look different to africans?"
Because Mike Nesmith's mother invented Tipp-Ex. Next question.
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First off, APES not monkeys. Second, seperate a group for hundreds of generations and they'll become quite different from other groups in the same species. That seperated group will likely become better adapted to the particular environment they live in as well.
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Now, if only we could do the same with this line of thought from idiot Creationists.
All too many of these offerings point to the need for a cultural change in our society to make intellectual curiosity, education, and tolerance so valued as to be indispensable to the average person.
There is so much foundational material missing from the poster's education, coupled with a fear that his faith cannot survive an honest scientific enquiry into the world around him, that attempting to introduce an accurate notion of the theory of evolution cannot succeed.
All of which saddens me greatly.
Asians decended from asian monkeys, who ate a lot of take out... Africans decended from african monkeys, who ate a lot of bananas, which aren't very good for your eyes as take out is. Also, asian monkeys are closer to the rising sun in the east, and had to squint more and thats why their eyes are slanted. But evolution says that we all came from worms... which look exactly alike.
They don't really. It's just small stuff, like the form of the eyes and nose, the color of the skin, the amount of body hair.
A stick Asian figure would look exactly like a stick African figure.
Well, first of all, we didn't evolve from monkeys.
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“If we evolved from monkies,”
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