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Uploaded by on Sep 11, 2008

why do people have different skin color?
A scientific answer to the question.

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  • what is this documantary called?

  • mitochondrial DNA, so what

  • @TheMessanjah very true

  • wrong, eskimos have darker skin than nordics even when they live further in north

    its not about climate or some BS.

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    bring back the phenotype unless a subsequent partner had the genotype of the original "different" one.

  • @gvman3680

    What do you think the mathematical probability of separate humanoid species, having evolved separately under vastly different environments and conditions could be able to reproduce?

    If you look at the mixings of different "races" today, you would find that it only takes two or three generations of reproducing with the same "race" , after one mix with a different one, to return back to having the phenotypes for skin and hair that that side began with. You would also not be able to br

  • @alexross8

    I've met plenty of black Saudis, with skin as black as my Dad's black African skin, only they had straight hair. Curious thing.

  • @metalhead420fuq Exactly. There had to have been more than one source of human DNA. Meaning at least a few seperate hominids that led to "modern" humans.

  • There hasn't been enough time for sunlight to be the determining factor in skin color. Not even close. In fact, we'd have had to turn into completely different species for that to have happened, yet we only seperated into several sub-species mostly capable of interbreeding.

  • 1:11 ... we dont.  --.--

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