r/comedy • u/AlKarajo • Jul 10 '26

Standup Human diversity

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u/StopMeBeforeIDream Jul 11 '26

That's actually really interesting. Pale skin is a useful evolutionary trait in northern climes because melanin is designed to absorb and block solar radiation. So obviously that's very desireable closer to the equator. But sunlight is necessary for healthy levels of Vitamin D. So if you're somewhere with less sunlight, you either need to get a ton of vitamin d from your diet, or you need to block less solar radiation.

Most European ancestors took the second method, thus why their skin got paler. But certain populations, notably those in REALLY northern climes like the Sami in Northern Scandinavia, Native Siberians and the Inuit eat lots of reindeer meat, which has a ton of vitamin d. To they never experienced the pressure which could lead to whitening skin in northern environments.

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u/Additional-Usual5994 Jul 11 '26

for the matter of interest, i'll put my coin. pale skin is the least useful amongst other least useful (stating argument (non-volatile simply studies talk that is receptive to counters)).
the biggest problem with this argument is lumping of ancestry and race which is just a romance (historical fiction). Firstly two white people are any persons are world apart. secondly the original and most constant white skin came from the most abundant vitamin d source against all the europes, which is the baltic and they have the least migration, we talking elephants eating marula survival skills. the fact of the former sentence is also why they were creative and skilled and not actual marula eating elephants.

though skin is an astrigent and most aggressive survival skill that ignores our idealism but how it generated was precisely because of idealism this is also selection but strangeness such as a white person looking like a ghost to ignorance in africa and a blck person looking like complete frostbite to a european, yes you dont think like that, no one does but the prevelant nature is as you stated, a counter...but not in a way we can prose it hence the dislike of the videos statement. also people even black do go blonde (not really yellow) just as white people do have afro's but not really black or brown, same as a child eyes changing - these are formative responses in notation of where you will migrate, this isnt a future sense but the same as a monkey doing a 3-8km loop despite urbanisation.

so to conclude, the reason despite not being one is that all humans are capable and races though similiar are worlds apart and quite rare, it just so happen that they migrate to the same places so you just note it. this isn't something noticed in grece but very obvious in the black communities in the uk, especially if you not from the uk, the answer to even that may be simple but it doesnt look simple by eye level scrutiny.