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Anonymous at Wed, 9 Oct 2024 02:45:42 UTC No. 16416776
Why are there so many damn genes for skin color?
It's just melanin. There should be one for white, one for black, and another for brown.
>A recent systematic study found 169 genes involved in human skin coloration
Like what the hell
Anonymous at Wed, 9 Oct 2024 03:17:36 UTC No. 16416795
>>16416776
camo
Anonymous at Wed, 9 Oct 2024 10:41:09 UTC No. 16417278
>>16416776
169 is nothing, there are millions of genes total
🗑️ Anonymous at Wed, 9 Oct 2024 10:42:39 UTC No. 16417279
>>16416776
It's not just color that makes Africans African faggot. Kill thyself in the fourth
Anonymous at Thu, 10 Oct 2024 04:29:05 UTC No. 16418640
>>16417278
Then why do squirrel coats only have two?
Anonymous at Thu, 10 Oct 2024 04:37:37 UTC No. 16418647
>>16416776
Maybe convergent evolution.
Also, lack of selective pressure would allow any benign pigmentation gene to linger.
Anonymous at Thu, 10 Oct 2024 04:47:10 UTC No. 16418655
>>16416776
Most of those genes aren't solely for skin colour, they determine many other things in your phenotype including things completely unrelated to skin like brain structure.
>>16417278
There's only about twenty thousand functional genes (not including alleles). You are thinking of base pairs and introgenes.
Anonymous at Thu, 10 Oct 2024 06:17:46 UTC No. 16418757
>>16416776
But blacks also differ in different genes than skin colour.
Anonymous at Thu, 10 Oct 2024 06:29:47 UTC No. 16418773
>>16418757
Of course. We aren't the same species. We didn't know this 20 years ago, but the last decade put the nail in the coffin for the idea of human races. There are no races, just different species entirely. What we call ethnicities are closer to races (Japanese is a race of the East Asian (but not African) species, Croatians are a race of the European species etc.).
Anonymous at Sat, 12 Oct 2024 00:01:27 UTC No. 16422011
>>16416776
If we are speaking in a genetic sense there isn't really "white, black, brown." That shit originated in the America and spread as they came to dominate world culture. You can already see this with your own eyes. Northern Europeans are more like a rose pinkish colour. Africans are hues of brown. And most other people have some sort of beige. If you colour select the skin on a photo editing program, you'll get some variation of red or orange.
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Oct 2024 02:23:13 UTC No. 16424023
That's pretty wild!