White skin is only a genetic mutation, it has nothing to do with vitamin d. Blacks have higher bone density, and have been found to require less vitamin D and calcium due to other process at work. Also that skin colour char is false
Inuits in the northern regions have much darker skin than whites!
That answers the question of pigmentation, but what about differences in bone structure, skull volume, muscle mass, mental capacity? We should recognise and celebrate our differences for the benefit of everyone, not ignore them and punish biologists and anthropologists who try to study them. We are incredibly diverse and our skills and abilities vary so incredibly, to pretend everyone is exactly the same hurts everyone equally. Why can't people see the beauty of that diversity and variance?
@4zion4life Whites have been raping other countries for 500 years. They destroy centers of learning and culture and erase the country's history. Sri Lanka (my country) had around 30,000,000 people in 1300AD...and it was reduced to 1,000,000 by 1800AD after successive European invasions. It's funny how whites turn around and ask this question after killing everyone around them and stealing their resources and then implementing divide and conquer to propagate misery
@crudhousefull Enjoying the computer you're using? The electricity? The English language? Moving pictures? The internet? All white inventions. You can bet the vast majority of the things you take for granted every day are white inventions. You're gonna turn around and condemn an entire race, while ignoring almost every modern comfort, from travel to medecine? I'm sick of idiots like you trying to hold me personally accountable for the actions of people i've never met, you're a racist.
@AkamuSlayer You're using language, mathematics and probably even eating our inventions. And obviously it's a stupid white bastard that reacts to my message without reading what I was reacting to. The elite whites are getting into Hinduisim and Buddhism to try to solve the puzzle of their silly little lives not meaning anything. Next time, if it's a response that you're responding to...read the original comment.
@AkamuSlayer And on a sidenote you stupid little bastard, the reason the rest of the world didn't progress is because of your barbaric race that erased histories, eliminated stations of development and administrative knowledge in the lands that it raped. Now go over stome statistics on how raped countries developed after achieving freedom. India btw was de-industrialized and converted to an agricultural economy after it was invaded. And yes, your race is horrid
@AkamuSlayer And on a sidenote you stupid little bastard, the reason the rest of the world didn't progress is because of your barbaric race that erased histories, eliminated stations of development and administrative knowledge in the lands that it raped. Now go over stome statistics on how raped countries developed after achieving freedom. India btw was de-industrialized and converted to an agricultural economy after it was invaded. And yes, your race is horrid
@AkamuSlayer And on a sidenote you stupid little bastard, the reason the rest of the world didn't progress is because of your barbaric race that erased histories, eliminated stations of development and administrative knowledge in the lands that it raped. Now go over stome statistics on how raped countries developed after achieving freedom. India btw was de-industrialized and converted to an agricultural economy after it was invaded. And yes, your race is horrid
@AkamuSlayer And on a sidenote you stupid little bastard, the reason the rest of the world didn't progress is because of your barbaric race that erased histories, eliminated stations of development and administrative knowledge in the lands that it raped. Now go over stome statistics on how raped countries developed after achieving freedom. India btw was de-industrialized and converted to an agricultural economy after it was invaded. And yes, your race is horrid
@AkamuSlayer Btw I'm only racist with bastards like you and the bastard I was replying to. Peaceful white people who know history and how the world came to be I'm alright with. I have trouble with bastards that you that think that we're benefitting from white people. On the whole, a complete fungus that set the world back a millenium. Thankfully the white bastards are starting to learn a little humanity and spirituality of late
"Race" is biologically and genetically undefinable. No two humans are exactly the same (even twins have different SNP's) so putting people into discontinuous categories such as "racial groups" when people are on a continuous genetic range is both artificial and subjective. "Race" does not exist. It is merely an artificial social construct invented by paranoid, bigots in the 1700's/1800's.
@ivandurseryii and I believe that going to New York from LA on foot only takes two small baby steps...
Is it really that hard to get that micro evolution almost inevitably, given enough time, leads to macro evolution? If each day you change a part on your desktop computer, you might end up with a completely different machine than the one you started with. But perhaps more importantly: if I really believed it took two steps to get from LA to New York I would be wrong. Belief simply doesn't matter
@ivandurseryii it's an analogy. I was only giving you an example of how it takes simple steps to achieve or get to something bigger. trying to show you that you were halfway there, and that observable micro evolution is evidence for (macro) evolution. the video itself is an example. look at how different people look in different parts of the globe. and it didn't take that long for those changes to occur. But it did take micro evolution for those changes to be seen in our macro world.
@ivandurseryii but before you say that we are all still humans so that's not a good example. there is evidence that birds are descended from the dinosaurs. dinosaurs had some feathers that were used like hair is used in other species today: to keep them warm. they did not use them to fly. yet birds diverged so much from their ancestors that lots of them can fly. if you look at a bird's wing bones. you will realize it looks like hands with really long fingers. they are a complete separate species
@ivandurseryii wales still have in their bones remnants of legs for example. and they are almost completely different than any land mammal. they are a good example. cause if you look just a little bit, you can actually their genealogical tree very all illustrated with different species that have slight changes in between them, as well as different ramifications giving origin to species other than wales. I wont mind having this conversation elsewhere. they dont allow enough letters here
If skin color is the product of evolution... And our evolutionary orgin was in africa with dark pigment.. could it do be said that the statement "Light Skinned people are More Evolved than dark skinned people" is actually a factual statement. Based on the simple reasoning that light skinned people EVOLVED/adapted the light skin and Dark people did Not. whether or not its because they never had to because of climate. Fact is they DIDNT evolve it. Ipso Facto they are Less Evolved.
12:42 "... these people have a tremendous potential to tan... they also run the risk of vitaman D deficiency if they have desk jobs, like that guy [Barack Obama]."
The fact that a majority of NBA players work indoors and are highly successful reveals a subtle but clear racism on her part. Where does an biological anthropologist get the medical license to recommend differing workplace environments based on skin color?
She's a hate-monger with an advanced degree and tenure.
@Goeeegi I don't get how she says they have a potential to tan but then because their skin is brown or black they are at risk of vitamin D deficiency.
But I maintain that she her expertise in biological anthropology is not a degree in medicine and therefore she should never say that blacks are ill-suited for indoor jobs ("desk" jobs) just because of their skin color.
Her tenure does not protect her from termination for irresponsible statements made outside her area of expertise.
Nothing she said suggests black people can't have indoor jobs, she just said she hopes people like Obama are aware of their inherent skin issues and make sure they either get some sun in their spare time or make sure their diet contains plenty of vitamin D. This is no more inappropriate than whites down here in Australia being told everyday by government TV ads to protect themselves from skin cancer as 1 in 2 Australians will get cancer in their lifetime, usually sun related.
@TheNarcMan Ads for sunscreen don't say that executive, indoor desk jobs are bad for the health of white people. She could have said mine workers and nuclear submarine crews who are white and go for months without sunshine can develop vitamin D deficiency. She didn't. Only in the instance of African Americans did she link vitamin D deficiency to occupation. She has no license to offer medical advice for or occupational fitness evaluations of an entire race of people, regardless of pigment
Why would whites suffer in a submarine or in a cave? Did you not watch the same video as me? The UV map of earth? Europeans are from such a lightly irradiated part of earth they aren't darkly pigmented but they do have to be careful in the sun. For black people its the opposite. If indoors most of their lives they should take vitamin d supplements but they dont have to worry about the sun so much.
That's all she said. I've heard others say it too. You're a bit sensitive.
@TheNarcMan Vitamin D deficiency occurs in darkly complected people because the sun's rays are not as intense away from the equator. Whites absorb more sun rays that produce vitamin D than blacks, and don't need as much sunlight, but they do need some. People in submarines for months or who work underground during daylight hours get zero sunlight, which can create a vitamin D deficiency even in whites. She said blacks are biologically ill-equipped for indoor, "desk" (office) jobs.
"She said blacks are biologically ill-equipped for indoor, "desk" (office) jobs."
-No one else heard that bit, just you. She said black people working indoors run the risk of vitamin D deficiency (higher risk relative to whites) so lets wish people like Obama with desk jobs the best in taking care of their health needs just as whites have to in the sun. I agree! Take care and be careful with your health whoever you are and whatever your personal situation requires like the lady said.
@TheNarcMan Take care, I've already taken action on this. She has no license to dispense medical advice or warnings to anyone in the United States, and she should not be making evalutions of an entire race's suitability for "desk jobs".
Lol, fine. Don't take her friendly common sense non-medical advice to take care of your health in a way that many scientists agree with. Go tell some black people you know to work in desk jobs just to spite her and never get any sun or take vitamin D supplements just to show her how wrong she is. If you're right, great. One less thing to make us different. If you're wrong there'll be some black people with unecessarily low immunity and mental health by not taking her cheery advice.
@TheNarcMan It's not about being factually right or wrong. It's about appropriate context and implications for fair employment practicies. I wouldn't encourage anyone to act out of spite, not even Jablonski. You can see some racist posts on this board. Where did those posters come to think that what they are posting is okay here? Jablonski says vitamin D deficiency causes problems with mood and mental health (11:21), but these are also symptoms of racial hostility too. G'day.
"You can see some racist posts on this board. Where did those posters come to think that what they are posting is okay here?"
-From brains the size of dog testicles & they probably didn't like the overall theme of equality of the speech. She did say there were some deleterious health results but so what? We can adapt.
"but these are also symptoms of racial hostility too."
-If racist people listened to scientists like her they'd know skin is just nature's weather adaptation, that's all.
@TheNarcMan Whatever your beliefs, I'm convinced through the structure of her comments and the delivery of her comments that her statements don't conform with standards for public employees speaking in a professional capacity, or even just a public audience. She omits the examples of vitamin D deficiency of submarine crews and coal miners, and fails to note black NBA players work indoors succesfully. She has no medical license to offer views on mood hazards of blacks due to "desk" work.
@pcml100 I don't know much about UV rays or intensity of exposure, but in my schooling I was made aware that the earth rotates on an axis that is tilted... With that in mind, wouldn't the UV exposure be tilted instead of being paralleled to the equator?
I could be wrong, but that seems to be a discrepancy I noted. What are your thoughts?
I don't think it would be sufficient evidence to an anti-evolutionist theist when I tell him, "the proof is on your skin"
Although their proof of "God" is unbeliavably asinine. They say "look around you, nature is PROOF of God" ignorant to the fact that nature actually disproves God since everything in nature can be observed. No proof of "creation". Nothing spontaneously materilizes before our eyes...
You go to African countries and you'll see there's large tribes of folks who look a lot like each other. You go up to Sweden and you'll see lots of folks who look a lot like each other. That's race.
@TaterGumfries If only science could succumb to pragmatic simplifications. You can be pragmatic and say there are 6 colors, but that's not close to the whole story. It's not that color/race doesn't exist, it's that pure color/race doesn't exist, so basing a society on racial purity, as most still do, is futile (for a variety of reasons). Like most everything in science, it's not as simple as what you see. Call it pedantic, but I like specificity, especially on an issue so subjective & emotional.
@TaterGumfries There ain't *nothin* that distinguishes race, and it's undefinable. Out of 30,000 genes, there are exactly 0 that exactly correlate exactly to any given race. It's a pragmatic simplification of reality, and our entire modern conception of race is only a few centuries old, invented to justify slavery.
@andid "Out of 30,000 genes, there are exactly 0 that exactly correlate exactly to any given race" If there ain't no race, how do you know how to tell which genes would correlate with race?
@TaterGumfries Exactly. You can't tell which genes correlate to race. It's a construction based on averages. Not all Africans have kinky hair. Not all white people have straight hair. We basically have genes from certain geographic regions in recent history, and even that's a bad approximation given genetic drift. Think about your ancestors...2^1, 2 parents,2^2, 4 grandparents,2^3, 8 great grandparents. 30 generations, 2^30 = >1 billion. We are mostly redundant, all vastly mixed.
@TaterGumfries No. I'm claiming genes for kinky hair can be found in everyones genomes from every "race", even people with straight hair can have kinky hair genes, if you understand the difference between genotype and phenotypes. But that seems like it's a stretch for you, so lets just agree to disagree here.
@TaterGumfries They're in plenty of people's genes without them knowing...you know what a carrier is, right? Do you know even know what a genotype vs. a phenotype is? Everyone "race" of man has sickle cell, variation in likelihood of X disease does not make a subspecies of man.
@andid Tater knows the difference between genotype and phenotype. Took a college course in anthropology once with a professor had the same belief as you, and he taught us all about it. We ain't never gonna agree, so maybe we ought not to argue over it. There's anthropologists support both sides of the argument. Tater's view, like those who think race is a useful concept, is that usually there's a large political component to the motivation of folks who claim there can't be no races.
@andid Tater knows what all them things are. Took a college anthropology course from a guy who made the same arguments you do. We ain't gonna agree, but there are a lot of anthropologists who believe race is a useful concept. Instead of arguin over it, Tater's just gonna post a link to a real anthropologist's argument, which is real close to what Tater thiks makes sense.
pbs dot org slash wgbh slash nova slash evolution slash does-race-exist dot html
@TaterGumfries That link dispels most every myth you've parroted prior, but I guess it says what you like at the end so that's ok. I think the writer errs by assuming "race" exists because there are physiological differences related to climate. The point is, climates vary and are always changing.
@andid There are not 4, 5, etc. distinct & pure categories of man like there aren't 4, 5, etc. distinct & pure categories of climate. There are nearly infinitely divisible, arbitrary categories. I also find her framing of "race denialists" as common P.C. types intellectually dishonest. Most everyone alive believes the simplistic, Jeffersonian race tripe, WE are the politically incorrect. But I can see this is futile, so later tater.
does everybody here actually believe the theory of evolution? Do you really think we exist because of an explosion? the scientific world is doing a good job of turning people into athiests. But lucky enough there is a growing scientific community dedicated to proving the existence of a creator. D.N.A is a stripof technical information.physics tells us that any type of information has to come from a source!! an intelligent source. water is like a big computer memory. watch water the great mystery
"Race" is biologically and genetically undefinable. No two humans are exactly the same (even twins have different SNP's) so putting people into discontinuous categories such as "racial groups" when people are on a continuous genetic range is both artificial and subjective. "Race" does not exist. It is merely an artificial social construct invented by paranoid, bigots in the 1700's/1800's.
@TheDisproof LOL @ all these idiotic and uneducated "racists" flagging your comment as spam. And people wonder why humanity is in a perpetual state of shit...
The word race is ill defined ,over used and lacks a scientific base.
The science fields need a clear term to use when referring to the structural and genetic differences in the 3 major classifications of humans: Caucasoid,Mongloid and Negroid.Creating a chart based on evolution,dna and continental births would help and could expand for admixtures.
yes you can argue with science... there are many instances where science has been wrong. But it was an extremely interesting talk i really enjoyed it @TheDisproof pigmentation is based within DNA it has nothing to do with creating categories of race although she mention race she is focused on skin pigmentation. Race may be somewhat arbitrary but it does not deny the fact that skin pigmentation is inexplicitly bound to our DNA and our heritage.
Jablonski said here that darker people are the most primitive, which is the point that I think she is trying to refute. People in the 1800’s used Darwin as an excuse to hold slaves and kill Indians, saying they had scientific proof that they were less evolved. This is an attempt by her reconcile this conflict within the politically correct points of view. A better point of view might be to say that variation with in a species does not show one person to be more evolved than the other.
"Race" is biologically and genetically undefinable. No two humans are exactly the same (even twins have different SNP's) so putting people into discontinuous categories such as "racial groups" when people are on a continuous genetic range is both artificial and subjective. "Race" does not exist. It is merely an artificial social construct invented by paranoid, bigots in the 1700's/1800's.
@TheDisproof Actually, it is definable. There are certain characteristics that define people from different areas. For example, when they study skulls that are thousands of years old, they can tell if they are Asian or African, or whatever. That's how they mapped the migration patterns of our ancestors. I wouldn't call the definitions of race "bigoted"- As long as you don't apply value judgments to each race, there's nothing wrong with actually acknowledging and embracing differences.
@xsarahsantosx Actually the way people decide where a skull is from is not from the skulls biology itself but from where it was found and how old it is. The other flaws with "race" are that 1) Humans exist along a continuous genetic range, they do not fit into neat, boundaried, artificial, discontinuous, groups. 2) All humans are different genetically (even twins have different SNP's) . 3) if you seriously think that "race" exists then please provide the genetic biological boundary of your own?
@TheDisproof No. They look at skulls found and South America and conclude they are from Africa. That is how they mapped the migration of the human species. Some examples of common genetics, just off the top of my head, are: carriers of Tay-Sachs, the metabolism of alcohol, flat teeth, etc these are all way that remains can be categorized into races. Anyway, you can tell different races just by looking at people. Where do physical differences come from? Obviously from their GENES.
@xsarahsantosx All skull genetics can trace their roots back to Africa because thats where human originated from, to map migration routes a study into how old the skulls are is more important than subjective attaching the myth of "race" to them. Tay Scahs carriers can be found in every single so called "race". Physical differences come from the environment selecting some alleles more often over others but that doesn't mean that you won't find every allele in every so called "race"!
@TheDisproof As I've said, there's nothing wrong with acknowledging race. I'm proud to be Portuguese. My people are different than the blond-haired, blue eyed people in the north, and darker people in the South. Nothing wrong with that =/
@TheDisproof Man, why are there so many idiots trying to defend the notion of race as a biologically relevent categorie when all genetic research on the matter makes it clear that it is useless? You must feel like you're wasting your breath sometimes! Keep trying to educate the masses though, someone has to!
@wmhoad I can explain it to you but i can't understand it for you. here goes: there is more differences within a so called "racial" group that between groups. This means that you could be more closely related to someone from a different "racial group" than to your own "racial group". 85% of human variation is within "racial groups" so putting them into "races" is a logical fallacy in the first place. Do you understand what continuous variation means?
@TheDisproof I am sorry to be rude, but that is the biggest bunch of crap and is PC propaganda. Why can Forensic physicians tell a person's race by the skeleton. This lady is an idiot.
@wmhoad A forensic scientist cannot tell a persons "race" from a skull which is why the Nazi's chief "racial expert" who had collected over 21,000 skulls from all over the world could not give an specimen when asked for an example of an caucasian one. 100% of human variation in skeletons can be found just within Africa. "race' is a biological and genetic myth as shown by the findings of the human genome project. Watch "a scientific test of race" for more info.
@wmhoad The webpage you referred me to is a collection site for scientific journals there are over 40,000 of them on subjects from lead to particle physics, care to be a a bit more specific?
I refer you direct to the human genome project website, look up " races do not exist human genome project" .
@TheDisproof I apologize. The specific article forensics is in Social Science & Medicine, Volume 34, Issue 2, Pages 107-111 by N. Sauer. As far as the genetics of race there are a range of scientific literature and Barbujani and Belle is an opinion some scientists dissagree with. The genetics is still being argued in the scientific community and with the issue of race the science can be influenced by a politically correct agenda. In forensic anthropology issue, I am confident in my position.
@wmhoad The 1992 paper was before the HGP findings and even admits "race" is just a concept. On issues of "race" the scientists can be affected either way, it's unfortunate that so many scientists were brought up with an ingrained belief in the existence of biological "race" that few are willing to look for disproof of the concept. .It is usually those who have gained most from a concept (such as "race") and have the most to lose from dropping the concept that fight for the concept the hardest.
@TheDisproof Black Africans have a lower white blood cell count hence their vuleranability to sickle cell anemia. The ratio of muscle to fat cells is higher in blacks. the average height in asians is less. The bone and skin structure (beyond melanoma) is different in each race. It is also usually those who have the most to gain from "race as social construct" who propagate that fiction. I am sorry but we will just have to agree to disagree.
@wmhoad Actually sickle cell is found in many places around the world outside Africa, including India, South East Asia, South America and the Middle East, it more common in areas with Malaria. It is an inherited disease not a transmissible one so white blood count is irrelevant. you have simply described variation, not discontinuous "races". You can find the tallest and shortest people in the world in Africa. read the race gallery by marek koln for studies about why you are incorrect.
@TheDisproof I would agree with that mostly, but I do believe that until travel became easier and colonies mixed things up, people from certain areas of the world certainly had typical attributes for their region.
@TheDisproof I'm just being devil's advocate to people saying there are either no differences or no similarities between anybody throughout the world. The differences are largely superficial, but you'd have to be blind to not see them.
@GanaLaMana Yep, With 7 billion individuals everyone is unique so everyone has differences. The individual differences far ouweigh any so called "group" ones.
I agree with you. You should read the "Invention of The White Race" by Theodore W. Allen. It tells the true story of how racism played a part of American history after the Civil War. That racism is a political tactic.
if shes trying to say white skin is "evolutionary"...then white ppl should be the picture of health.. osteoporosis is highest amoung white females and on average those females w/ the highest bone density...are black females (w/ the least european admixture).. the illusion?...thinking that nature would choose skin cancer over vit D. she knows this sounds like shit 10:22...lol...FAIL
@abstract1968 What are you talking about? First, you are presuming white people are somehow more 'evolved'? You are stuck in a linear evolutionary framework, which is not correct. Second, she is saying skin pigmentation, caused by the production of melanin, is an adaptation to UV conditions in different parts of the world. Which is correct. Third, what do osteoporosis and other indicators of health have to do with skin? Nothing, that's what.
@abstract1968 Finally, nature didn't 'choose' skin cancer over vitamine D. No one is saying that. How could nature choose? Evolution has no predetermined 'end-state', it doesn't choose. And it's not like it knows about skin cancer before it occurs. You need to learn about how evolution works before calling 'FAIL' on someone who was invited to talk at TED and is presenting actual research as opposed to your silly nonsense.
@ianman6 you make nooo sense @ all...what is it going to be??? Vit D synthesis OR sunscreen??? you CANT have it both ways...ur argument is severely FLAWED..ur your head..if u "evolved" light skin to synthesize Vit D...then WHY do you guys need sunscreen??? why are your ppl dying from SC...WHY are there BILLIONs spent on research, foundations & campaigns if white skin is a sign of "evolution".
@abstract1968 Evolution doesn't necessarily mean improvement. It means adaptation. And yes we can 'have it both ways'. Vit D synthesis occurs with UV (a fact, I don't know why you're debating it). Lower melanin count exposes white skin to higher rates of UV, making it more prone to melanoma. We need sunscreen when there is higher a UV count. I don't use sunscreen where I live (Canada), but I do in places like Australia. My argument isn't flawed. Your's isn't even an argument, it's just retarded
@ianman6 exactly!..and white skin Hasent "adapted" well..you guys need sunscreen Wherever you live SC has become an EPIDEMIC ..im glad to hear about ur not needing sunscreen where u live..i see ur heeding those warnings by avoiding prolonged exposure between the hours of 10 and 4 p.m. ,wearing long sleeves and staying in shaded areas : )...but im not sure what quality of live u would have if u hav to spend all day indoors..oh except the 15min u get 2go outside 2 synthesis Vit D.
@abstract1968 Very nice bating, spoken like the troll you are. I spend days outdoors without sunscreen. I just tan well. And no, I don't have black ancestry (except for my distant African origins). You have created a strawman that doesn't reflect reality and are arguing with this fictional creature of yours. Very poorly I might add. Listen, you have your racial politics to support so you'll never let up. And I'm tired of reading your butchered spelling. So I'm bowing out. You win, champ.
@ianman6 ..well then u should understand..thats NOT a tan..its ur first sign of sun damage...how can u produce something (melanin) that u dont hav the ability to make...whats happening is that since u dont have the proper repair mech. to deal w/ the radiation..u are developing mutations that are "building up" in ur dna. (whether u develop SC or not) and you end up passing these mutations to your children and will manifest as some kind of crazy disorder that nobody in the family has ever had
@ianman6 if u say u developed wt skn after ur ancestor left africa...then mayB u shouldve stayed n those colder..INSTEAD...what we see is where ever u go (and take over)...u have the HIGHEST rates of skin cancer...AUS, EUR, South AFR...AND N. AMERICA
@abstract1968 Of course we do, we have the least protection from UV rays. I don't get what you're saying, it doesn't support any of your arguments (which aren't supported by evidence anyways). Are you trying to say white people should stay in the temperate climates they adapted to? If so, fine. Won't argue, white people went around the world and fucked shit up, what can I say. But a little too late to stay put at this point, and frankly the only that statement proves is that you're bitter racist
Perhaps people dont like to admit it but the most advanced people seem to be the olive/bronze colored people or in other word brown people. There skin is perfect for extreme sun and also perfect for no sun at all. They have moderate melanin. They are the only one Ive seen change skin color a lot during summer and winter. They seem to be fit for almost any environment on earth.
Considering Black people have been on the planet much longer than everyone else and have witnessed all of of these changes and considering its black peopel that apparently slowly started going pale occurding to white experts, wouldnt it occur to anyone with a brain to just ask black people what actually happened?.....duh !
Yet another video talking crap. Black people in the west should be getting Whiter then but are not. Black people by nature are not all dark skinned. Many tribes in Africa such as the oldest modern day tribe in Africa the Pygymies live in the hottest parts of Africa and are by nature Light Skinned and are not even dark skinned. For how much longer are these white "experts" going to keep talking such crap.?..
THIS IS STUPID........... I DID NOT NEED NASA TO TELL ME THE FURTHER FROM THE EQUATOR THE LIGHTER THE SKIN. THE EARLY HUMANS WHO MOVED FROM THE EQUATOR WERE THE ONES WHO ADVANCED FROM THE HUNTER GATHER STAGE. THOSE WHO DID NOT STAGNATED.... THE EGYPTIANS MARRIED INTO THEIR EQUTORIAL SLAVES AND HENCE THE CIVILIZATION THE EARLIER ONES BUILT COLLAPASED. THIS IS ALL TRUE BUT TOO SIMPLE FOR MOST EGGHEADS TO ACCEPT.
@LilChuckyWoodenHead Non-huntering and gathering peoples inhabit equatorial regions such as the Amazon basin and the Pacific Islands. Also, all humans, even those in non-equatorial regions, practiced hunting and gathering until roughly 10,000 years ago. The development of agriculture as a mode of food production occured in Mesopotamia, near the equator. So what point(s) were you trying to make?
@ianman6 .....SO WHAT RACES NEVER MANAGED TO ADVANCE FROM THE HUNTER GATHER STAGE ON THEIR OWN. EVEN THIS DAY HAVE FAMILY MEMBERS STILL IN THIS PRIMITIVE STAGE ? WHO HAS A VERY HARD TIME FUNCTIONING IN A CIVILIZED SOCIETY BECAUSE OF JUNGLE INDUCED HARMONS THAT DRIVE THEM TO FIGHT OR FLIGHT INSTINTS NEEDED IN THE JUNGLE ? USE JUST A LITTLE SIMPLE REASONING AND THE ANSWERS ARE CLEAR....Chucky Knows Stuff !
@LilChuckyWoodenHead Sorry, Chucky knows jack shit. You're presuming a linear advancement through stages from 'primitive' to 'civilized', which is incorrect. What are you reading, a textbook from the 1800s? Tell me, how do you move on from hunting and gathering toi, say, horticulture in a desert land that can't support cultivated crops? Better yet, why would you when hunting and gathering is the best adaptation to your environment? Environmental pressures result in changes in subsistence modes.
@LilChuckyWoodenHead Without necessary pressures, there is no need. It is therefore not 'advancing' to transition into food production, but simply adapting. You are spewing outdated nonsense. And of course people who were born and raised in the jungle would have a hard time functioning in a 'civilized' society. So would you! What's your point? How would you fare in the jungle? Poorly. As for 'jungle induced harmons [sic]', I'm assuming you meant hormones. If so, that's nonsense. No such thing.
@LilChuckyWoodenHead Finally, how do you know that, say, sub-Saharan Africa wouldn't have 'advanced' in the way you speak of if Europe hadn't, I don't know, COLONIZED THE WHOLE WORLD AND STARTED EXPLOITING IT? Kind of an important historical consideration. See, use just a little simple reasoning, backed by a solid foundation in research, and the 'answers' become 'clear'.
Now black people have a reason to go back to Africa. You cant produce vitamin D up here you freaking morons.Take your melatonined skin and go back to your country where the sun shines brighter so you can absorb your nutrients! lmao jk. Im kidding GOD. Seriously though this is some shit that people should be aware of.
You know darker colors heat up faster, so maybe eskimos evolved darker skin to stay warmer. At the same time not getting too dark as to beable to absorb nutrients.
You are right. The difference in (average) intelligence between dark and light skinned people is not due to vitamin deficiency, but due to evolution and the drastic differences in our geographies. The harsh cold conditions of E. Asia and Europe encouraged different traits than those observed in darker people. Please see: "Race is More than Skin Color!" video.
@Mishkafofer If skin is too dark, it blocks Vitamin D. Low UV means that folate will not be stimulated. Folate is needed for cells to grow and reproduce- they are the stimulant for melanin. Skin color is polygenic, so if UV rays are too low, no stimulation, and eventually (some of) the genes for dark skin shuts off. It's not a "negative effect", just a biological response.
SuddenCathersis: I know I'm wasting my breath but when you say Jews have infiltrated (cue James Bond music and maybe X-Files too) the sciences do you include Einstein in that? Yeah, that guy had a secret agenda, eh? He didn't want us to develop star flight so the Jews can keep us all on planet Earth under their power. By the way folks, before I get flamed (by the Great Jewish Conspiracy?) this is sarcasm.
Consider the new information that non African people have up to 4% Neanderthal genes, perhaps this changes this whole conversation. Any thoughts about that?
@chairde the movement of humans from Africa to Europe is much older than the move of humans from Africa to Asia to the Arctic Circle. This information can be found at National Geographic's Human Genome Project, or conversely do a goolge image search of "map of human migration"
What Nina Jablonski has still failed to explain in her claims that we were all darkly pigmented, is that there are populations like the Bisa Sandawe, who, before admixture with the Bantu, showed skin color ranges all the way from 6 to 32 in the Von Luschan scales. Trevor 1947. There are populations to this day that live in the tropics that have not evolved the darkest skin tones, yet survive just fine with medium skin tones. Thus while pale skin tones are explained as more recent, medium is not
Not only skin color but racial features as well such as facial structure and hair texture. I'm a Black man with a daughter by a White woman. My daughter is 1 years old and she has straight hair, but also her skin is lighter than mine but not as pale as her moms, also she has my checks and lips.
Race denial is the foundation of liberalism, the idea that humans differ in appearance but are all the same in terms of intelligence, temperament, behavior etc. They believe that nothing is innate and everything is a byproduct of environment. This is what the whole debate comes down to, nature vs nurture. I lean towards the nature side and believe in genetic differences therefore I am a racist.
@SuddenCatharsis Apparently, you have an agenda that prevents you from learning anything, and therefore prevents you from changing your mind. You have decided that science is in conspiracy in order to protect your irrational beliefs. You even misrepresent her findings. The science of genetics and anthropology is wasted on you. Sad. But you're still young...perhaps it's just a phase.
@chuckfaststrat The Jews have a long history of infiltrating the sciences, especially anthropology, with the motive of downplaying human biodiversity in an effort to create an illusion of "equality". This woman is attempting to convince people that the only genetic difference between populations is skin color. Any rational person who has lived around diversity knows it encompasses much more.
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BeeZee1992 1 week ago
Loved the speech!
igislovak 3 weeks ago
This has all been debunked
White skin is only a genetic mutation, it has nothing to do with vitamin d. Blacks have higher bone density, and have been found to require less vitamin D and calcium due to other process at work. Also that skin colour char is false
Inuits in the northern regions have much darker skin than whites!
AskariWaryaa 1 month ago
That answers the question of pigmentation, but what about differences in bone structure, skull volume, muscle mass, mental capacity? We should recognise and celebrate our differences for the benefit of everyone, not ignore them and punish biologists and anthropologists who try to study them. We are incredibly diverse and our skills and abilities vary so incredibly, to pretend everyone is exactly the same hurts everyone equally. Why can't people see the beauty of that diversity and variance?
AkamuSlayer 1 month ago
Why is there no great antique BLACK philosophers? What is the excuse?
4zion4life 1 month ago
@4zion4life Ignorant troll/bastard is ignorant. ....
ElJuzgado 1 month ago
@ElJuzgado long cat is long is so 2009
4zion4life 1 month ago
But why have BLACKS invented so few things??
Everything around us was created by whites with a few asians.
4zion4life 1 month ago
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@4zion4life you dont know your history
justizzz100 1 month ago
@4zion4life Whites have been raping other countries for 500 years. They destroy centers of learning and culture and erase the country's history. Sri Lanka (my country) had around 30,000,000 people in 1300AD...and it was reduced to 1,000,000 by 1800AD after successive European invasions. It's funny how whites turn around and ask this question after killing everyone around them and stealing their resources and then implementing divide and conquer to propagate misery
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@crudhousefull Enjoying the computer you're using? The electricity? The English language? Moving pictures? The internet? All white inventions. You can bet the vast majority of the things you take for granted every day are white inventions. You're gonna turn around and condemn an entire race, while ignoring almost every modern comfort, from travel to medecine? I'm sick of idiots like you trying to hold me personally accountable for the actions of people i've never met, you're a racist.
AkamuSlayer 1 month ago
@AkamuSlayer You're using language, mathematics and probably even eating our inventions. And obviously it's a stupid white bastard that reacts to my message without reading what I was reacting to. The elite whites are getting into Hinduisim and Buddhism to try to solve the puzzle of their silly little lives not meaning anything. Next time, if it's a response that you're responding to...read the original comment.
crudhousefull 1 month ago
@AkamuSlayer And on a sidenote you stupid little bastard, the reason the rest of the world didn't progress is because of your barbaric race that erased histories, eliminated stations of development and administrative knowledge in the lands that it raped. Now go over stome statistics on how raped countries developed after achieving freedom. India btw was de-industrialized and converted to an agricultural economy after it was invaded. And yes, your race is horrid
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@AkamuSlayer And on a sidenote you stupid little bastard, the reason the rest of the world didn't progress is because of your barbaric race that erased histories, eliminated stations of development and administrative knowledge in the lands that it raped. Now go over stome statistics on how raped countries developed after achieving freedom. India btw was de-industrialized and converted to an agricultural economy after it was invaded. And yes, your race is horrid
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@AkamuSlayer And on a sidenote you stupid little bastard, the reason the rest of the world didn't progress is because of your barbaric race that erased histories, eliminated stations of development and administrative knowledge in the lands that it raped. Now go over stome statistics on how raped countries developed after achieving freedom. India btw was de-industrialized and converted to an agricultural economy after it was invaded. And yes, your race is horrid
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@AkamuSlayer And on a sidenote you stupid little bastard, the reason the rest of the world didn't progress is because of your barbaric race that erased histories, eliminated stations of development and administrative knowledge in the lands that it raped. Now go over stome statistics on how raped countries developed after achieving freedom. India btw was de-industrialized and converted to an agricultural economy after it was invaded. And yes, your race is horrid
crudhousefull 1 month ago
@AkamuSlayer Btw I'm only racist with bastards like you and the bastard I was replying to. Peaceful white people who know history and how the world came to be I'm alright with. I have trouble with bastards that you that think that we're benefitting from white people. On the whole, a complete fungus that set the world back a millenium. Thankfully the white bastards are starting to learn a little humanity and spirituality of late
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@4zion4life "But why have BLACKS invented so few things??
Everything around us was created by whites with a few asians"
watch and or read "Guns, Germs, and Steel" it explains why whites have more
ImGonnaKillYou2nd 1 month ago
i love this video.... my girlfriend and i are watching this together... philosophy date <3
KGdaBOSS55 2 months ago 8
@KGdaBOSS55 Nerds...lol, j.k.
ElJuzgado 1 month ago
i love this video
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"Race" is biologically and genetically undefinable. No two humans are exactly the same (even twins have different SNP's) so putting people into discontinuous categories such as "racial groups" when people are on a continuous genetic range is both artificial and subjective. "Race" does not exist. It is merely an artificial social construct invented by paranoid, bigots in the 1700's/1800's.
See: A scientific test of race.
TheDisproof 3 months ago
I believe in micro-evolution. I don't believe in macro-evolution.
ivandurseryii 4 months ago
@ivandurseryii and I believe that going to New York from LA on foot only takes two small baby steps...
Is it really that hard to get that micro evolution almost inevitably, given enough time, leads to macro evolution? If each day you change a part on your desktop computer, you might end up with a completely different machine than the one you started with. But perhaps more importantly: if I really believed it took two steps to get from LA to New York I would be wrong. Belief simply doesn't matter
djalma15 2 months ago
@djalma15 Please give me a PROVEN living example, not an example of a computer that was, in itself, created by an intelligent designer.
ivandurseryii 2 months ago
@ivandurseryii it's an analogy. I was only giving you an example of how it takes simple steps to achieve or get to something bigger. trying to show you that you were halfway there, and that observable micro evolution is evidence for (macro) evolution. the video itself is an example. look at how different people look in different parts of the globe. and it didn't take that long for those changes to occur. But it did take micro evolution for those changes to be seen in our macro world.
djalma15 2 months ago
@ivandurseryii but before you say that we are all still humans so that's not a good example. there is evidence that birds are descended from the dinosaurs. dinosaurs had some feathers that were used like hair is used in other species today: to keep them warm. they did not use them to fly. yet birds diverged so much from their ancestors that lots of them can fly. if you look at a bird's wing bones. you will realize it looks like hands with really long fingers. they are a complete separate species
djalma15 2 months ago
@ivandurseryii wales still have in their bones remnants of legs for example. and they are almost completely different than any land mammal. they are a good example. cause if you look just a little bit, you can actually their genealogical tree very all illustrated with different species that have slight changes in between them, as well as different ramifications giving origin to species other than wales. I wont mind having this conversation elsewhere. they dont allow enough letters here
djalma15 2 months ago
Is she of Russian origin?
scepticulous 4 months ago
Racists will hear racism in anything.
hutch1979music 4 months ago 2
@Sanctientism what about the races of dogs,pigs and other animals?
unurautare2 4 months ago
I suggest people watch my video -A scientific test of "race". it surprised many people and annoyed many racists.
TheDisproof 4 months ago
If skin color is the product of evolution... And our evolutionary orgin was in africa with dark pigment.. could it do be said that the statement "Light Skinned people are More Evolved than dark skinned people" is actually a factual statement. Based on the simple reasoning that light skinned people EVOLVED/adapted the light skin and Dark people did Not. whether or not its because they never had to because of climate. Fact is they DIDNT evolve it. Ipso Facto they are Less Evolved.
scottasing 4 months ago
differences of the skin color is the cause of all kinds of racism problems happening in the world....
joe700700 4 months ago
12:42 "... these people have a tremendous potential to tan... they also run the risk of vitaman D deficiency if they have desk jobs, like that guy [Barack Obama]."
The fact that a majority of NBA players work indoors and are highly successful reveals a subtle but clear racism on her part. Where does an biological anthropologist get the medical license to recommend differing workplace environments based on skin color?
She's a hate-monger with an advanced degree and tenure.
matt605 5 months ago
@matt605 no, she isn't LOL... ur just overthinking her thesis ;)
Goeeegi 4 months ago
@Goeeegi I don't get how she says they have a potential to tan but then because their skin is brown or black they are at risk of vitamin D deficiency.
But I maintain that she her expertise in biological anthropology is not a degree in medicine and therefore she should never say that blacks are ill-suited for indoor jobs ("desk" jobs) just because of their skin color.
Her tenure does not protect her from termination for irresponsible statements made outside her area of expertise.
matt605 4 months ago
@matt605
Nothing she said suggests black people can't have indoor jobs, she just said she hopes people like Obama are aware of their inherent skin issues and make sure they either get some sun in their spare time or make sure their diet contains plenty of vitamin D. This is no more inappropriate than whites down here in Australia being told everyday by government TV ads to protect themselves from skin cancer as 1 in 2 Australians will get cancer in their lifetime, usually sun related.
TheNarcMan 4 months ago
@TheNarcMan Ads for sunscreen don't say that executive, indoor desk jobs are bad for the health of white people. She could have said mine workers and nuclear submarine crews who are white and go for months without sunshine can develop vitamin D deficiency. She didn't. Only in the instance of African Americans did she link vitamin D deficiency to occupation. She has no license to offer medical advice for or occupational fitness evaluations of an entire race of people, regardless of pigment
matt605 4 months ago
@matt605
Why would whites suffer in a submarine or in a cave? Did you not watch the same video as me? The UV map of earth? Europeans are from such a lightly irradiated part of earth they aren't darkly pigmented but they do have to be careful in the sun. For black people its the opposite. If indoors most of their lives they should take vitamin d supplements but they dont have to worry about the sun so much.
That's all she said. I've heard others say it too. You're a bit sensitive.
TheNarcMan 4 months ago
@TheNarcMan Vitamin D deficiency occurs in darkly complected people because the sun's rays are not as intense away from the equator. Whites absorb more sun rays that produce vitamin D than blacks, and don't need as much sunlight, but they do need some. People in submarines for months or who work underground during daylight hours get zero sunlight, which can create a vitamin D deficiency even in whites. She said blacks are biologically ill-equipped for indoor, "desk" (office) jobs.
matt605 4 months ago
@matt605
"She said blacks are biologically ill-equipped for indoor, "desk" (office) jobs."
-No one else heard that bit, just you. She said black people working indoors run the risk of vitamin D deficiency (higher risk relative to whites) so lets wish people like Obama with desk jobs the best in taking care of their health needs just as whites have to in the sun. I agree! Take care and be careful with your health whoever you are and whatever your personal situation requires like the lady said.
TheNarcMan 4 months ago
@TheNarcMan Take care, I've already taken action on this. She has no license to dispense medical advice or warnings to anyone in the United States, and she should not be making evalutions of an entire race's suitability for "desk jobs".
matt605 4 months ago
@matt605
Lol, fine. Don't take her friendly common sense non-medical advice to take care of your health in a way that many scientists agree with. Go tell some black people you know to work in desk jobs just to spite her and never get any sun or take vitamin D supplements just to show her how wrong she is. If you're right, great. One less thing to make us different. If you're wrong there'll be some black people with unecessarily low immunity and mental health by not taking her cheery advice.
TheNarcMan 4 months ago
@TheNarcMan It's not about being factually right or wrong. It's about appropriate context and implications for fair employment practicies. I wouldn't encourage anyone to act out of spite, not even Jablonski. You can see some racist posts on this board. Where did those posters come to think that what they are posting is okay here? Jablonski says vitamin D deficiency causes problems with mood and mental health (11:21), but these are also symptoms of racial hostility too. G'day.
matt605 4 months ago
@matt605
"You can see some racist posts on this board. Where did those posters come to think that what they are posting is okay here?"
-From brains the size of dog testicles & they probably didn't like the overall theme of equality of the speech. She did say there were some deleterious health results but so what? We can adapt.
"but these are also symptoms of racial hostility too."
-If racist people listened to scientists like her they'd know skin is just nature's weather adaptation, that's all.
TheNarcMan 4 months ago
@TheNarcMan Whatever your beliefs, I'm convinced through the structure of her comments and the delivery of her comments that her statements don't conform with standards for public employees speaking in a professional capacity, or even just a public audience. She omits the examples of vitamin D deficiency of submarine crews and coal miners, and fails to note black NBA players work indoors succesfully. She has no medical license to offer views on mood hazards of blacks due to "desk" work.
matt605 4 months ago
where all de niggas at!
MrJamesdryable 6 months ago
Races are subspecies of human. Those who believe there aren't differences between the races beyond skin color are in denial.
imRyRy 6 months ago
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matt605 5 months ago
Actually, it is not evolution that created white skin, mutation created white skin.
EdgeofElimination1 6 months ago
@EdgeofElimination1 You're a dumbass. All evolutionairy changes are brought on by mutation at one point. Get your racist "facts" out of here.
imRyRy 6 months ago
@pcml100 I don't know much about UV rays or intensity of exposure, but in my schooling I was made aware that the earth rotates on an axis that is tilted... With that in mind, wouldn't the UV exposure be tilted instead of being paralleled to the equator?
I could be wrong, but that seems to be a discrepancy I noted. What are your thoughts?
oneluvpitbull 6 months ago
I don't think it would be sufficient evidence to an anti-evolutionist theist when I tell him, "the proof is on your skin"
Although their proof of "God" is unbeliavably asinine. They say "look around you, nature is PROOF of God" ignorant to the fact that nature actually disproves God since everything in nature can be observed. No proof of "creation". Nothing spontaneously materilizes before our eyes...
FreeFromWar 6 months ago
You go to African countries and you'll see there's large tribes of folks who look a lot like each other. You go up to Sweden and you'll see lots of folks who look a lot like each other. That's race.
TaterGumfries 7 months ago
@TaterGumfries If only science could succumb to pragmatic simplifications. You can be pragmatic and say there are 6 colors, but that's not close to the whole story. It's not that color/race doesn't exist, it's that pure color/race doesn't exist, so basing a society on racial purity, as most still do, is futile (for a variety of reasons). Like most everything in science, it's not as simple as what you see. Call it pedantic, but I like specificity, especially on an issue so subjective & emotional.
andid 6 months ago
@andid Fine, but the claim is there ain't *nothin* that distinguishes race, and that it's undefinable. Ain't so.
TaterGumfries 6 months ago
@TaterGumfries There ain't *nothin* that distinguishes race, and it's undefinable. Out of 30,000 genes, there are exactly 0 that exactly correlate exactly to any given race. It's a pragmatic simplification of reality, and our entire modern conception of race is only a few centuries old, invented to justify slavery.
andid 6 months ago
@andid "Out of 30,000 genes, there are exactly 0 that exactly correlate exactly to any given race" If there ain't no race, how do you know how to tell which genes would correlate with race?
TaterGumfries 6 months ago
@TaterGumfries Exactly. You can't tell which genes correlate to race. It's a construction based on averages. Not all Africans have kinky hair. Not all white people have straight hair. We basically have genes from certain geographic regions in recent history, and even that's a bad approximation given genetic drift. Think about your ancestors...2^1, 2 parents,2^2, 4 grandparents,2^3, 8 great grandparents. 30 generations, 2^30 = >1 billion. We are mostly redundant, all vastly mixed.
andid 6 months ago
@andid You claimin there ain't no genes for kinky hair?
TaterGumfries 6 months ago
@TaterGumfries No. I'm claiming genes for kinky hair can be found in everyones genomes from every "race", even people with straight hair can have kinky hair genes, if you understand the difference between genotype and phenotypes. But that seems like it's a stretch for you, so lets just agree to disagree here.
andid 6 months ago 9
@andid And sickle cell genes... they're in everyone's DNA?
TaterGumfries 4 months ago
@TaterGumfries They're in plenty of people's genes without them knowing...you know what a carrier is, right? Do you know even know what a genotype vs. a phenotype is? Everyone "race" of man has sickle cell, variation in likelihood of X disease does not make a subspecies of man.
andid 4 months ago
@andid Tater knows the difference between genotype and phenotype. Took a college course in anthropology once with a professor had the same belief as you, and he taught us all about it. We ain't never gonna agree, so maybe we ought not to argue over it. There's anthropologists support both sides of the argument. Tater's view, like those who think race is a useful concept, is that usually there's a large political component to the motivation of folks who claim there can't be no races.
TaterGumfries 4 months ago
@andid Tater knows what all them things are. Took a college anthropology course from a guy who made the same arguments you do. We ain't gonna agree, but there are a lot of anthropologists who believe race is a useful concept. Instead of arguin over it, Tater's just gonna post a link to a real anthropologist's argument, which is real close to what Tater thiks makes sense.
pbs dot org slash wgbh slash nova slash evolution slash does-race-exist dot html
TaterGumfries 4 months ago
@TaterGumfries That link dispels most every myth you've parroted prior, but I guess it says what you like at the end so that's ok. I think the writer errs by assuming "race" exists because there are physiological differences related to climate. The point is, climates vary and are always changing.
andid 4 months ago
@andid There are not 4, 5, etc. distinct & pure categories of man like there aren't 4, 5, etc. distinct & pure categories of climate. There are nearly infinitely divisible, arbitrary categories. I also find her framing of "race denialists" as common P.C. types intellectually dishonest. Most everyone alive believes the simplistic, Jeffersonian race tripe, WE are the politically incorrect. But I can see this is futile, so later tater.
andid 4 months ago
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ElJuzgado 4 months ago
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andid 4 months ago
@andid LOL, wow. Sorry man, I quoted the wrong person! Ignore this post.
ElJuzgado 4 months ago
@andid "...if you understand the difference...seems like it's a stretch...agree to disagree..." -- LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
usdeptofsmooth 3 weeks ago
So there is no genetic cause for kinky hair like Africans got?
TaterGumfries 6 months ago
@TaterGumfries *FACEPALM*
You didn't watch the video, did you? Sweet Jesus, some of you people are dumb as rocks.
ElJuzgado 4 months ago
@ElJuzgado Watched the video, didn't agree. There's lots of anthropologists and biologists who don't agree either.
TaterGumfries 4 months ago
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@TaterGumfries You live in a bubble of delusion....I won't try to educate you, would most certainly be a waist of time.
ElJuzgado 4 months ago
does everybody here actually believe the theory of evolution? Do you really think we exist because of an explosion? the scientific world is doing a good job of turning people into athiests. But lucky enough there is a growing scientific community dedicated to proving the existence of a creator. D.N.A is a stripof technical information.physics tells us that any type of information has to come from a source!! an intelligent source. water is like a big computer memory. watch water the great mystery
10bhave 7 months ago
@10bhave Evolution has *nothin* to do with the Big Bang. You *really* need to learn some science.
TaterGumfries 7 months ago
@TaterGumfries
Did he say that evolution and the Big Bang are the same? That's stupid.
fa11234 4 months ago
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"Race" is biologically and genetically undefinable. No two humans are exactly the same (even twins have different SNP's) so putting people into discontinuous categories such as "racial groups" when people are on a continuous genetic range is both artificial and subjective. "Race" does not exist. It is merely an artificial social construct invented by paranoid, bigots in the 1700's/1800's.
See: A scientific test of race.
TheDisproof 7 months ago
@TheDisproof LOL @ all these idiotic and uneducated "racists" flagging your comment as spam. And people wonder why humanity is in a perpetual state of shit...
ElJuzgado 4 months ago
The word race is ill defined ,over used and lacks a scientific base.
The science fields need a clear term to use when referring to the structural and genetic differences in the 3 major classifications of humans: Caucasoid,Mongloid and Negroid.Creating a chart based on evolution,dna and continental births would help and could expand for admixtures.
goldensassenach 8 months ago
this makes sense look at the skin cancer rates in australia
Viruspirate 8 months ago
yes you can argue with science... there are many instances where science has been wrong. But it was an extremely interesting talk i really enjoyed it @TheDisproof pigmentation is based within DNA it has nothing to do with creating categories of race although she mention race she is focused on skin pigmentation. Race may be somewhat arbitrary but it does not deny the fact that skin pigmentation is inexplicitly bound to our DNA and our heritage.
vindicated198 9 months ago
The Intellegent thing i've seen so far on you tube,.i knew I was white, but I didnt know why others were different,. You Cant argue w/ science.
thorshammer1348 9 months ago
what she talks is general knowledge, there is nothing new. i knew this a decade before
sreeshankarlal 9 months ago
did she say darwin? darwin made a theory not a truth
mjjcng8958 9 months ago
fuck you racists isnt beautyfull when u shut the fuck up!!
XxJoelFCBarcaxX 10 months ago
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there is nooo such thing as race
abstract1968 11 months ago
i hav nothing to be bitter about when nature is on my side
abstract1968 11 months ago
112 dislikes? WTF is there to dislike about objective hard science?
Oh, I geddit......
TreyRoque 11 months ago
THE BIGGEST DIFFERNCE BETWEEN THE RACES IS NOT SKIN COLOR.... BUT IT IS THE CONTENT OF THEIR HORMONES ! ...THOSE DIRECT A LOT OF THEIR BEHAVIOR.
LilChuckyWoodenHead 11 months ago
Interesting data but she draws the wrong conclusions...
-G
GagnezTV 11 months ago
Jablonski said here that darker people are the most primitive, which is the point that I think she is trying to refute. People in the 1800’s used Darwin as an excuse to hold slaves and kill Indians, saying they had scientific proof that they were less evolved. This is an attempt by her reconcile this conflict within the politically correct points of view. A better point of view might be to say that variation with in a species does not show one person to be more evolved than the other.
songwriterdad 1 year ago
"Race" is biologically and genetically undefinable. No two humans are exactly the same (even twins have different SNP's) so putting people into discontinuous categories such as "racial groups" when people are on a continuous genetic range is both artificial and subjective. "Race" does not exist. It is merely an artificial social construct invented by paranoid, bigots in the 1700's/1800's.
TheDisproof 1 year ago 49
@TheDisproof Actually, it is definable. There are certain characteristics that define people from different areas. For example, when they study skulls that are thousands of years old, they can tell if they are Asian or African, or whatever. That's how they mapped the migration patterns of our ancestors. I wouldn't call the definitions of race "bigoted"- As long as you don't apply value judgments to each race, there's nothing wrong with actually acknowledging and embracing differences.
xsarahsantosx 1 year ago
@xsarahsantosx Actually the way people decide where a skull is from is not from the skulls biology itself but from where it was found and how old it is. The other flaws with "race" are that 1) Humans exist along a continuous genetic range, they do not fit into neat, boundaried, artificial, discontinuous, groups. 2) All humans are different genetically (even twins have different SNP's) . 3) if you seriously think that "race" exists then please provide the genetic biological boundary of your own?
TheDisproof 1 year ago 2
@TheDisproof No. They look at skulls found and South America and conclude they are from Africa. That is how they mapped the migration of the human species. Some examples of common genetics, just off the top of my head, are: carriers of Tay-Sachs, the metabolism of alcohol, flat teeth, etc these are all way that remains can be categorized into races. Anyway, you can tell different races just by looking at people. Where do physical differences come from? Obviously from their GENES.
xsarahsantosx 1 year ago
@xsarahsantosx All skull genetics can trace their roots back to Africa because thats where human originated from, to map migration routes a study into how old the skulls are is more important than subjective attaching the myth of "race" to them. Tay Scahs carriers can be found in every single so called "race". Physical differences come from the environment selecting some alleles more often over others but that doesn't mean that you won't find every allele in every so called "race"!
TheDisproof 1 year ago
@TheDisproof As I've said, there's nothing wrong with acknowledging race. I'm proud to be Portuguese. My people are different than the blond-haired, blue eyed people in the north, and darker people in the South. Nothing wrong with that =/
xsarahsantosx 1 year ago
@xsarahsantosx "race" is a biological myth and an artificial social construct, I think you just confused it with nationality.
TheDisproof 1 year ago
@TheDisproof Man, why are there so many idiots trying to defend the notion of race as a biologically relevent categorie when all genetic research on the matter makes it clear that it is useless? You must feel like you're wasting your breath sometimes! Keep trying to educate the masses though, someone has to!
ianman6 11 months ago
@TheDisproof I am sorry to be rude, but that is the biggest bunch of crap and is PC propaganda.
wmhoad 11 months ago
@wmhoad I can explain it to you but i can't understand it for you. here goes: there is more differences within a so called "racial" group that between groups. This means that you could be more closely related to someone from a different "racial group" than to your own "racial group". 85% of human variation is within "racial groups" so putting them into "races" is a logical fallacy in the first place. Do you understand what continuous variation means?
TheDisproof 11 months ago
@TheDisproof I am sure you are well-meaning; but you, sir, are wrong.
wmhoad 11 months ago
@wmhoad care to back up your opinion with some specific science papers or research?
TheDisproof 10 months ago
@TheDisproof I am sorry to be rude, but that is the biggest bunch of crap and is PC propaganda. Why can Forensic physicians tell a person's race by the skeleton. This lady is an idiot.
wmhoad 11 months ago
@wmhoad A forensic scientist cannot tell a persons "race" from a skull which is why the Nazi's chief "racial expert" who had collected over 21,000 skulls from all over the world could not give an specimen when asked for an example of an caucasian one. 100% of human variation in skeletons can be found just within Africa. "race' is a biological and genetic myth as shown by the findings of the human genome project. Watch "a scientific test of race" for more info.
TheDisproof 11 months ago
@TheDisproof I refer you to the webpage, linkinghub.elsevier.com, for a recent scholarly article that explains the facts.
wmhoad 11 months ago
@wmhoad The webpage you referred me to is a collection site for scientific journals there are over 40,000 of them on subjects from lead to particle physics, care to be a a bit more specific?
I refer you direct to the human genome project website, look up " races do not exist human genome project" .
TheDisproof 10 months ago
@TheDisproof I apologize. The specific article forensics is in Social Science & Medicine, Volume 34, Issue 2, Pages 107-111 by N. Sauer. As far as the genetics of race there are a range of scientific literature and Barbujani and Belle is an opinion some scientists dissagree with. The genetics is still being argued in the scientific community and with the issue of race the science can be influenced by a politically correct agenda. In forensic anthropology issue, I am confident in my position.
wmhoad 10 months ago
@wmhoad The 1992 paper was before the HGP findings and even admits "race" is just a concept. On issues of "race" the scientists can be affected either way, it's unfortunate that so many scientists were brought up with an ingrained belief in the existence of biological "race" that few are willing to look for disproof of the concept. .It is usually those who have gained most from a concept (such as "race") and have the most to lose from dropping the concept that fight for the concept the hardest.
TheDisproof 10 months ago
@TheDisproof Black Africans have a lower white blood cell count hence their vuleranability to sickle cell anemia. The ratio of muscle to fat cells is higher in blacks. the average height in asians is less. The bone and skin structure (beyond melanoma) is different in each race. It is also usually those who have the most to gain from "race as social construct" who propagate that fiction. I am sorry but we will just have to agree to disagree.
wmhoad 10 months ago
@wmhoad Actually sickle cell is found in many places around the world outside Africa, including India, South East Asia, South America and the Middle East, it more common in areas with Malaria. It is an inherited disease not a transmissible one so white blood count is irrelevant. you have simply described variation, not discontinuous "races". You can find the tallest and shortest people in the world in Africa. read the race gallery by marek koln for studies about why you are incorrect.
TheDisproof 10 months ago
@wmhoad Barbujani and Belle (2006) disagree with you.
TheDisproof 10 months ago
@TheDisproof Well said!
lysergicwindow 9 months ago
@TheDisproof I would agree with that mostly, but I do believe that until travel became easier and colonies mixed things up, people from certain areas of the world certainly had typical attributes for their region.
GanaLaMana 7 months ago
@GanaLaMana With 7 billion unique individuals everyone is unique!
TheDisproof 7 months ago
@TheDisproof I'm just being devil's advocate to people saying there are either no differences or no similarities between anybody throughout the world. The differences are largely superficial, but you'd have to be blind to not see them.
GanaLaMana 7 months ago
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@GanaLaMana Yep, With 7 billion individuals everyone is unique so everyone has differences. The individual differences far ouweigh any so called "group" ones.
TheDisproof 7 months ago
@TheDisproof
I agree with you. You should read the "Invention of The White Race" by Theodore W. Allen. It tells the true story of how racism played a part of American history after the Civil War. That racism is a political tactic.
fa11234 4 months ago
if shes trying to say white skin is "evolutionary"...then white ppl should be the picture of health.. osteoporosis is highest amoung white females and on average those females w/ the highest bone density...are black females (w/ the least european admixture).. the illusion?...thinking that nature would choose skin cancer over vit D. she knows this sounds like shit 10:22...lol...FAIL
abstract1968 1 year ago
@abstract1968 What are you talking about? First, you are presuming white people are somehow more 'evolved'? You are stuck in a linear evolutionary framework, which is not correct. Second, she is saying skin pigmentation, caused by the production of melanin, is an adaptation to UV conditions in different parts of the world. Which is correct. Third, what do osteoporosis and other indicators of health have to do with skin? Nothing, that's what.
ianman6 11 months ago
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abstract1968 11 months ago
@abstract1968 Finally, nature didn't 'choose' skin cancer over vitamine D. No one is saying that. How could nature choose? Evolution has no predetermined 'end-state', it doesn't choose. And it's not like it knows about skin cancer before it occurs. You need to learn about how evolution works before calling 'FAIL' on someone who was invited to talk at TED and is presenting actual research as opposed to your silly nonsense.
ianman6 11 months ago
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abstract1968 11 months ago
@ianman6 you make nooo sense @ all...what is it going to be??? Vit D synthesis OR sunscreen??? you CANT have it both ways...ur argument is severely FLAWED..ur your head..if u "evolved" light skin to synthesize Vit D...then WHY do you guys need sunscreen??? why are your ppl dying from SC...WHY are there BILLIONs spent on research, foundations & campaigns if white skin is a sign of "evolution".
abstract1968 11 months ago
@abstract1968 Evolution doesn't necessarily mean improvement. It means adaptation. And yes we can 'have it both ways'. Vit D synthesis occurs with UV (a fact, I don't know why you're debating it). Lower melanin count exposes white skin to higher rates of UV, making it more prone to melanoma. We need sunscreen when there is higher a UV count. I don't use sunscreen where I live (Canada), but I do in places like Australia. My argument isn't flawed. Your's isn't even an argument, it's just retarded
ianman6 11 months ago
@ianman6 exactly!..and white skin Hasent "adapted" well..you guys need sunscreen Wherever you live SC has become an EPIDEMIC ..im glad to hear about ur not needing sunscreen where u live..i see ur heeding those warnings by avoiding prolonged exposure between the hours of 10 and 4 p.m. ,wearing long sleeves and staying in shaded areas : )...but im not sure what quality of live u would have if u hav to spend all day indoors..oh except the 15min u get 2go outside 2 synthesis Vit D.
abstract1968 11 months ago
@abstract1968 Very nice bating, spoken like the troll you are. I spend days outdoors without sunscreen. I just tan well. And no, I don't have black ancestry (except for my distant African origins). You have created a strawman that doesn't reflect reality and are arguing with this fictional creature of yours. Very poorly I might add. Listen, you have your racial politics to support so you'll never let up. And I'm tired of reading your butchered spelling. So I'm bowing out. You win, champ.
ianman6 11 months ago
@ianman6 ..well then u should understand..thats NOT a tan..its ur first sign of sun damage...how can u produce something (melanin) that u dont hav the ability to make...whats happening is that since u dont have the proper repair mech. to deal w/ the radiation..u are developing mutations that are "building up" in ur dna. (whether u develop SC or not) and you end up passing these mutations to your children and will manifest as some kind of crazy disorder that nobody in the family has ever had
abstract1968 11 months ago
@ianman6 if u say u developed wt skn after ur ancestor left africa...then mayB u shouldve stayed n those colder..INSTEAD...what we see is where ever u go (and take over)...u have the HIGHEST rates of skin cancer...AUS, EUR, South AFR...AND N. AMERICA
abstract1968 11 months ago
@abstract1968 Of course we do, we have the least protection from UV rays. I don't get what you're saying, it doesn't support any of your arguments (which aren't supported by evidence anyways). Are you trying to say white people should stay in the temperate climates they adapted to? If so, fine. Won't argue, white people went around the world and fucked shit up, what can I say. But a little too late to stay put at this point, and frankly the only that statement proves is that you're bitter racist
ianman6 11 months ago
a white person "breaking" the illusion of skin color? LOL
itchybo510 1 year ago
Is she racist ?
askdhuwuw 1 year ago
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TheSuburbanTechnique 1 year ago
Perhaps people dont like to admit it but the most advanced people seem to be the olive/bronze colored people or in other word brown people. There skin is perfect for extreme sun and also perfect for no sun at all. They have moderate melanin. They are the only one Ive seen change skin color a lot during summer and winter. They seem to be fit for almost any environment on earth.
Xzibillionaire 1 year ago
Considering Black people have been on the planet much longer than everyone else and have witnessed all of of these changes and considering its black peopel that apparently slowly started going pale occurding to white experts, wouldnt it occur to anyone with a brain to just ask black people what actually happened?.....duh !
Nio9ether 1 year ago
Yet another video talking crap. Black people in the west should be getting Whiter then but are not. Black people by nature are not all dark skinned. Many tribes in Africa such as the oldest modern day tribe in Africa the Pygymies live in the hottest parts of Africa and are by nature Light Skinned and are not even dark skinned. For how much longer are these white "experts" going to keep talking such crap.?..
Nio9ether 1 year ago
@Nio9ether
"Black people in the west should be getting Whiter then but are not."
In case you didn't know, Evolution takes a very long time to have a noticeable effect like that.
BTW not all of these experts are white.
FutileFreak 1 year ago
THIS IS STUPID........... I DID NOT NEED NASA TO TELL ME THE FURTHER FROM THE EQUATOR THE LIGHTER THE SKIN. THE EARLY HUMANS WHO MOVED FROM THE EQUATOR WERE THE ONES WHO ADVANCED FROM THE HUNTER GATHER STAGE. THOSE WHO DID NOT STAGNATED.... THE EGYPTIANS MARRIED INTO THEIR EQUTORIAL SLAVES AND HENCE THE CIVILIZATION THE EARLIER ONES BUILT COLLAPASED. THIS IS ALL TRUE BUT TOO SIMPLE FOR MOST EGGHEADS TO ACCEPT.
LilChuckyWoodenHead 1 year ago
@LilChuckyWoodenHead Non-huntering and gathering peoples inhabit equatorial regions such as the Amazon basin and the Pacific Islands. Also, all humans, even those in non-equatorial regions, practiced hunting and gathering until roughly 10,000 years ago. The development of agriculture as a mode of food production occured in Mesopotamia, near the equator. So what point(s) were you trying to make?
ianman6 11 months ago
@ianman6 .....SO WHAT RACES NEVER MANAGED TO ADVANCE FROM THE HUNTER GATHER STAGE ON THEIR OWN. EVEN THIS DAY HAVE FAMILY MEMBERS STILL IN THIS PRIMITIVE STAGE ? WHO HAS A VERY HARD TIME FUNCTIONING IN A CIVILIZED SOCIETY BECAUSE OF JUNGLE INDUCED HARMONS THAT DRIVE THEM TO FIGHT OR FLIGHT INSTINTS NEEDED IN THE JUNGLE ? USE JUST A LITTLE SIMPLE REASONING AND THE ANSWERS ARE CLEAR....Chucky Knows Stuff !
LilChuckyWoodenHead 11 months ago
@LilChuckyWoodenHead Sorry, Chucky knows jack shit. You're presuming a linear advancement through stages from 'primitive' to 'civilized', which is incorrect. What are you reading, a textbook from the 1800s? Tell me, how do you move on from hunting and gathering toi, say, horticulture in a desert land that can't support cultivated crops? Better yet, why would you when hunting and gathering is the best adaptation to your environment? Environmental pressures result in changes in subsistence modes.
ianman6 11 months ago
@LilChuckyWoodenHead Without necessary pressures, there is no need. It is therefore not 'advancing' to transition into food production, but simply adapting. You are spewing outdated nonsense. And of course people who were born and raised in the jungle would have a hard time functioning in a 'civilized' society. So would you! What's your point? How would you fare in the jungle? Poorly. As for 'jungle induced harmons [sic]', I'm assuming you meant hormones. If so, that's nonsense. No such thing.
ianman6 11 months ago
@ianman6..... CAN'T YOU SEE ???... IT'S NOT JUST THOSE RAISED IN THE JUNGLE... BUT THEIR DECENDENTS THAT CANNOT AJUST TO LIVING IN CIVILIZATION.
LilChuckyWoodenHead 11 months ago
@LilChuckyWoodenHead Finally, how do you know that, say, sub-Saharan Africa wouldn't have 'advanced' in the way you speak of if Europe hadn't, I don't know, COLONIZED THE WHOLE WORLD AND STARTED EXPLOITING IT? Kind of an important historical consideration. See, use just a little simple reasoning, backed by a solid foundation in research, and the 'answers' become 'clear'.
ianman6 11 months ago
So why then are eskimos tan?
LupuSabre 1 year ago
Now black people have a reason to go back to Africa. You cant produce vitamin D up here you freaking morons.Take your melatonined skin and go back to your country where the sun shines brighter so you can absorb your nutrients! lmao jk. Im kidding GOD. Seriously though this is some shit that people should be aware of.
CantWeedThis 1 year ago
@LupuSabre
You know darker colors heat up faster, so maybe eskimos evolved darker skin to stay warmer. At the same time not getting too dark as to beable to absorb nutrients.
CantWeedThis 1 year ago
@LupuSabre and why aren't dark ppl who come to low level light countries like mine depressed lol
ShaolinHero1 1 year ago
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Halacanno 1 year ago
You are right. The difference in (average) intelligence between dark and light skinned people is not due to vitamin deficiency, but due to evolution and the drastic differences in our geographies. The harsh cold conditions of E. Asia and Europe encouraged different traits than those observed in darker people. Please see: "Race is More than Skin Color!" video.
paulsitko 1 year ago
I don'y understand the negative effects of low UV radiation on dark skin, can anyone explain the short and long term effects?
Mishkafofer 1 year ago
@Mishkafofer If skin is too dark, it blocks Vitamin D. Low UV means that folate will not be stimulated. Folate is needed for cells to grow and reproduce- they are the stimulant for melanin. Skin color is polygenic, so if UV rays are too low, no stimulation, and eventually (some of) the genes for dark skin shuts off. It's not a "negative effect", just a biological response.
chuckfaststrat 1 year ago
I am so thankful I am green, I can live anywhere. =)
sandlwood65 1 year ago 5
SuddenCathersis: I know I'm wasting my breath but when you say Jews have infiltrated (cue James Bond music and maybe X-Files too) the sciences do you include Einstein in that? Yeah, that guy had a secret agenda, eh? He didn't want us to develop star flight so the Jews can keep us all on planet Earth under their power. By the way folks, before I get flamed (by the Great Jewish Conspiracy?) this is sarcasm.
Taiwanlight 1 year ago 2
Consider the new information that non African people have up to 4% Neanderthal genes, perhaps this changes this whole conversation. Any thoughts about that?
chairde 1 year ago 5
@chairde the movement of humans from Africa to Europe is much older than the move of humans from Africa to Asia to the Arctic Circle. This information can be found at National Geographic's Human Genome Project, or conversely do a goolge image search of "map of human migration"
LessonSmith 1 year ago
@LessonSmith that is nothing new, we learn it in school here in Europe!
Feuchtraumfanta 1 year ago
Fantastic. great talk.
kennebacasiskyle 1 year ago
What Nina Jablonski has still failed to explain in her claims that we were all darkly pigmented, is that there are populations like the Bisa Sandawe, who, before admixture with the Bantu, showed skin color ranges all the way from 6 to 32 in the Von Luschan scales. Trevor 1947. There are populations to this day that live in the tropics that have not evolved the darkest skin tones, yet survive just fine with medium skin tones. Thus while pale skin tones are explained as more recent, medium is not
Salsassin 1 year ago
Not only skin color but racial features as well such as facial structure and hair texture. I'm a Black man with a daughter by a White woman. My daughter is 1 years old and she has straight hair, but also her skin is lighter than mine but not as pale as her moms, also she has my checks and lips.
u2hubbard 1 year ago
Oh and this woman obviously has an agenda. Is she Jewish?
SuddenCatharsis 1 year ago
@SuddenCatharsis not sure if she is, but Jesus was definitely a Jew.
romxxii 1 year ago
Race denial is the foundation of liberalism, the idea that humans differ in appearance but are all the same in terms of intelligence, temperament, behavior etc. They believe that nothing is innate and everything is a byproduct of environment. This is what the whole debate comes down to, nature vs nurture. I lean towards the nature side and believe in genetic differences therefore I am a racist.
SuddenCatharsis 1 year ago
@SuddenCatharsis Apparently, you have an agenda that prevents you from learning anything, and therefore prevents you from changing your mind. You have decided that science is in conspiracy in order to protect your irrational beliefs. You even misrepresent her findings. The science of genetics and anthropology is wasted on you. Sad. But you're still young...perhaps it's just a phase.
chuckfaststrat 1 year ago 14
@chuckfaststrat The Jews have a long history of infiltrating the sciences, especially anthropology, with the motive of downplaying human biodiversity in an effort to create an illusion of "equality". This woman is attempting to convince people that the only genetic difference between populations is skin color. Any rational person who has lived around diversity knows it encompasses much more.
SuddenCatharsis 1 year ago