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CRR
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Message 46 of 70 (799218)
02-08-2017 6:31 AM
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02-08-2017 5:02 AM


the origin of skin colors which are inheritable.
There really is only one skin colour; brown. This is caused by melanin and depending on how much we have we can vary from white (little melanin) to black (lots of melanin). This is controlled by several genes giving about 64 shades of brown.
The theory that best fits the facts is that Adam and Eve were created with 2 alleles for each of these genes so they had the genetic potential for all skin colours. Their children would have had a variety of skin colours. Some black, some white, some in between. Assuming random pairing in this generation some couples would have had both black, both white, or some mixture. This would then have created families where some had skin colour predominately at both ends of the range.
So how did we get races with different skin colours? Perhaps an event that divided the population into family groups, some white, some black, most in between. The Tower of Babel meets that requirement. The new languages groups would have kept families together and locked skin colours into language groups. As these groups spread out they took their new languages and skin colours with them.
Selection and drift could then have acted to reduce variation within each group.

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Message 47 of 70 (799219)
02-08-2017 6:45 AM
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You have to admire a mind that can conflate myth, magic with half understood, confused, science and a childish world image to create a pseudoscientific primitive belief mash-up.
Apart from it being both bad religion, bad science and utter twaddle of course.

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Message 48 of 70 (799224)
02-08-2017 8:16 AM
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The best part
Denies evolution occurred, uses evolution to explain everything but the special magic parts 😂

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Message 49 of 70 (799228)
02-08-2017 9:34 AM
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02-08-2017 3:33 AM


After WW2, they realised that they really, really needed more people and began to allow immigration from Southern Europe, too. They called and still call those guys Wogs in private (Greeks, Italians, etc.). Off-white, I guess.
Interesting that you mention that because my Greek father has a whole slew of first cousins that live in Australia. Most emigrated there after WW2 as you said. Also in the aftermath of the Greek civil war.

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Message 50 of 70 (799230)
02-08-2017 9:52 AM
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02-08-2017 6:45 AM


Apart from it being both bad religion, bad science and utter twaddle of course.
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Twaddle
ˈtwdl
informal
noun
1.
trivial or foolish speech or writing; nonsense.
"he dismissed the novel as self-indulgent twaddle"
verb archaic
1.
talk or write in a trivial or foolish way.
"what is that old fellow twaddling about?"
Heard that word so many times on EVC. Always wondered what it meant.

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Message 51 of 70 (799261)
02-08-2017 3:37 PM
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02-08-2017 6:31 AM


The theory that best fits the facts is that Adam and Eve were created with 2 alleles for each of these genes so they had the genetic potential for all skin colours. Their children would have had a variety of skin colours. Some black, some white, some in between. Assuming random pairing in this generation some couples would have had both black, both white, or some mixture. This would then have created families where some had skin colour predominately at both ends of the range.
So how did we get races with different skin colours? Perhaps an event that divided the population into family groups, some white, some black, most in between. The Tower of Babel meets that requirement. The new languages groups would have kept families together and locked skin colours into language groups. As these groups spread out they took their new languages and skin colours with them.
I see two primary flaws with your model.
Firstly, Adam and Eve's alleles are not enough. Take the MC1R gene. The 'M' stands for melanin, and this is a gene we know plays a role in pigmentation in mammals, including humans. Now, in your model, there are at most four alleles of MC1R in humans - two each from Adam and Eve. In the real world, we know there are many many more. Here's a study looking at the role played by some variants of MC1R in skin cancer risk. They genotyped less than 2000 people, all of them in eastern Spain, and identified 53 variant forms of the gene.
The second problem is that skin colour is not randomly distributed around the world as if it was some historical accident. Rather, skin colour is strongly correlated with levels of UV radiation. There is no reason for this to be the case in your model; but it is elegantly explained as an evolutionary adaptation.
Edited by caffeine, : No reason given.

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Message 52 of 70 (799303)
02-09-2017 2:22 AM
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02-08-2017 6:31 AM


The theory that best fits the facts is that Adam and Eve were created with 2 alleles for each of these genes so they had the genetic potential for all skin colours.
Your theory is nonsense. Even some folks with the same skin color have that color because of different alleles. Four alleles cannot and do not explain reality.
Secondly, there is more than one variety of melanin, with the varieties having different colors, so saying that there is only one pigment is just wrong. See pheomelanin and eumelanin.
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Message 53 of 70 (799310)
02-09-2017 4:20 AM
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CRR writes:
There really is only one skin colour; brown. This is caused by melanin and depending on how much we have we can vary from white (little melanin) to black (lots of melanin). This is controlled by several genes giving about 64 shades of brown.
This gets me wondering. Do people with darker skin colour have more or less genetic information than people with lighter skin colour?

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Message 54 of 70 (799331)
02-09-2017 10:26 AM
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02-09-2017 2:22 AM


Your theory is nonsense.
Exactly.
There is another source of variation--skin thickness.
If I remember a graduate course in Human Races from a while back, groups like the Bushmen of Southern Africa have thicker skins, which contributes in part to perceived skin color.
And Adam & Eve are religious myths, and can't be used to address scientific problems. Might as well use the Easter Bunny as a data point.

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Message 55 of 70 (799383)
02-09-2017 6:53 PM
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Message 56 of 70 (801069)
03-03-2017 4:56 AM
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Do people with darker skin colour have more or less genetic information than people with lighter skin colour?
Generally the same. They have the same number of functional genes. However I have read that red hair is due to a defect in the MC1R gene so there would be a loss of genetic information in that case.

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Message 57 of 70 (801070)
03-03-2017 4:57 AM
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Step 2
Evolution did it.

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Message 58 of 70 (801076)
03-03-2017 6:53 AM
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03-03-2017 4:57 AM


Re: Step 2
So, CRR, you still couldn't provide us on the quanties on how to decide whether lighter skinned humans have more or less genetic information than darker skinned people.
Edited by Pressie, : No reason given.

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Message 59 of 70 (801078)
03-03-2017 6:54 AM
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03-03-2017 4:57 AM


Re: Step 2
However I have read that red hair is due to a defect in the MC1R gene so there would be a loss of genetic information in that case.
A loss of information or different information like with skin color? Is it really a defect or just a difference? A different allele? I think your use of the word "defect" is intentionally loaded.
Evolution did it.
Yes, it did. No Easter Bunny necessary. Glad you agree.


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CRR
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Message 60 of 70 (801083)
03-03-2017 7:01 AM
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Re: Step 2
"An MC1R that is hitting on all cylinders keeps red hair away. So it makes sense that people with red hair usually have an MC1R gene that has a small difference in it that keeps it from working quite right." Is it possible to end up with red hair by getting the red hair gene from just one parent? | The Tech Interactive

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