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How is this possible?
by yupitsme123 1y ago
How is this possible?
- anon291 1y agoI'm not sure about that particular claim, but in general, skin color and phenotype are not perfectly correlated with ancestry. The immediate objection is the obvious one... "What do you mean? Why do Chinese people look Chinese, or Africans African, or Europeans European?". What I mean is that, you can have two closely related populations with their own distinct phenotypes that are actually closely related. An interesting example are the Negritos of SE Asia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negrito https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negrito Here is what they look like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negrito#/media/File:Taman_Negara_(30509997143).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negrito#/media/File:Taman_Nega... Any person simply going off of looks, would obviously assume these people are African. However, they are indeed most closely related to their sister population, the fair-skinned small-eyed (please no offense, we all know what I'm talking about) East Asians. Their look is due to convergent selection that favors darker skin, wider noses, etc. They are actually vastly genetically different than the Africans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negrito#/media/File:PCA_of_Orang_Asli_and_Andamanese_with_world_populations_in_HGDP.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negrito#/media/File:PCA_of_Ora... This is what I mean by phenotype and genotype are not perfectly correlated.