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Old February 25th, 2010 #1
RickHolland
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Default Why Are Europeans White?

Tells why northern Europeans are so oddly de-pigmented compared to everyone else on the globe. Session E1 of a series of topics discussed by the Second Life "The Study of Racialism" group. It is part of our molecular anthropology series. The prior session, E5 discussed the migrations that carried our species around the globe in prehistoric times. This topic looks at later regional adaptations.

http://knol.google.com/k/why-are-europeans-white-e1#


Skin color is one of the most conspicuous ways in which humans vary and has been widely used to define human races. Here we present new evidence indicating that variations in skin color are adaptive, and are related to the regulation of ultraviolet (UV) radiation penetration in the integument and its direct and indirect effects on fitness. Using remotely sensed data on UV radiation levels, hypotheses concerning
the distribution of the skin colors of indigenous peoples relative to UV levels were tested quantitatively in this study for the first time.

http://mathildasanthropologyblog.wor...man-colouring/


The Distribution of Anthropological Traits in Europe

Geography and history are critical factors in the ethnogenesis of the living peoples of Europe. Some of these groups consist of hypotheses, which would lead too far afield to substantiate more precisely at this time. This work will above all deal with the anthropological relations in Europe at the time of the beginning of industrial civilization. This is the only somewhat static epoch about which we possess extensive knowledge. From this point we shall go back to the time of the first expansion of the Indo-European peoples. However, it is hardly possible to go back further in time.

In terms of natural geography Europe forms an appendage of the Eurasian continent. However, we can still not deny the great independence which our part of the world possesses when viewed from a purely anthropological standpoint. For Europe was and is up to our time the dwelling place of the bulk of the White or Europid race and for most of its pronounced subraces. To the south the region of the predominantly Europid race extends approximately to the northern border of the Sudan savannah. East of the Nile river, however, the racial boundary is very indistinct. In Asia Europid races fill up all of southwest Asia and predominate also in the north of western India—becoming rarer about the northern Deccan region and around the lower Ganges region.

East and north of these areas begins the predominance of the Mongolid races. The Mongolids dominate also in the steppes of southeasternmost Russia to the lower reaches of the Volga river and up toward the Ural mountains. From here on the racial boundary is likely to pass between the still predominantly Europid Volga Finns and the predominantly Mongolid Voguls, Ostiaks, and Samoyeds. It then reaches the European Arctic Ocean somewhat south of the mouth of the Pechora river.

Herewith we have delineated the predominant Europid region; in! the Old World. Within this region are found only a few small non-Europid enclaves. One of these is the tiny predominantly Mongolid Pussta region of Hungary—and also the region north of the Azov Sea in the Ukraine. There are in addition a few no less interesting smaller predominantly Negrid regions in the Sahara, and now also, in the Atlas mountain region of Morocco.

http://carnby.altervista.org/lundrac...man-races1.htm


http://www.ceacb.ucl.ac.uk/culturecl...3-07_Frost.pdf



 
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