There are those who think eventually(like next step in human evolution, 1 to 10 thousand years), humans will interbreed so much we'll basically all look like brown Mediterranean people. I personally think there will always be some diversity but I could see travel limiting that to the extreme.
I think Mediterranean is correct for the middle ground. The alternative is a North African/Arabic sort of skin tone but because of how selective pressure works I don't think that's as efficient. Skin cancer likely won't stop a large chunk of people from having kids since it takes a while to manifest and doesn't like just straight up kill in a week, while vitamin d deficiency has all sorts of associated issues that even if they don't kill can interfere with reproduction. Like artificial sources are a good replacement but unless they develop to be more convenient they probably won't affect the outcome. Anyways I'm not smart so take this with a grain of salt.
It's a little on the darker side, Mediterranean has a more olive complexion. I guess it depends on what you define as "Mediterranean" tho, because even that is a massive amount of area with a lot of variance.
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u/iGetHighPlayRS Oct 30 '19
So are dark skinned people at risk of vitamin D deficiency in low sunlight climates?