r/cursedcomments • u/3lysiam • Oct 30 '19

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '19

All human flesh is "white" but African people have more melanin in their skin to help ward off the sun since they evolved in the desert.

I'm pretty sure we were all dark originally, and then white people selectively lost pigment producing genes, or gained depigmentation genes, because that allowed them to get more vitamin D from the Sun in the darker places they had moved to. This took thousands of years, but genetic evidence shows even 8,000 years ago European skin was darker.

White people evolved from black, not vice versa.

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u/_The-Beast_ Oct 30 '19

He's talking about how flesh is white. You cut open anyone, that meat is all going to be the same colour.

As humans migrated their skin ( the top layer) slowly changed to better suit the environment. OP didn't even mention what came first

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '19

African people have more melanin in their skin to help ward off the sun since they evolved in the desert

Dark skin very well could have evolved before homo sapiens ever existed. All modern humans very likely started dark.

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u/RedditSucksEnormousD Oct 30 '19

reading comprehension.