South Africa is the farthest from equater, why aren't the natives, very light or olive skin tone??

[Lulletje Rozewater]

South Africa is the farthest from equator in sub-sahara africa, why aren't the natives, very light or olive skin tone??

I was so damn curious to know why aren't native south africans (Afrikaans) like lighter then the rest of Sub-sahara africa since the latitudes even reach almost -35?

If any one can answer

[Bloodeagle]

Compare that with this map of U.V. Concentrations.

[Tabiti]

I think the same question goes with relatively dark (for Asians) pigmentation of Inuits and other populations near the North Pole. Dark complexion helps the body to preserve more Vitamin D, something important on the North Pole, however is that needed on the Equator, where the people are also dark? Or as they say, Inuits are dark because they consume much fish fat - one of the best sources of that vitamin. Can we believe that theory?
If skin tone was only an adoptive trait, not racial (as some claim), then why the people in Southern America are lighter than those living under the same sun radiation amount in Africa?

P.S. Sorry for the stupid questions...

[Lulletje Rozewater]

I think the same question goes with relatively dark (for Asians) pigmentation of Inuits and other populations near the North Pole. Dark complexion helps the body to preserve more Vitamin D, something important on the North Pole, however is that needed on the Equator, where the people are also dark? Or as they say, Inuits are dark because they consume much fish fat - one of the best sources of that vitamin. Can we believe that theory?
If skin tone was only an adoptive trait, not racial (as some claim), then why the people in Southern America are lighter than those living under the same sun radiation amount in Africa?

P.S. Sorry for the stupid questions...

Long shot
Could it not be the jungle environment---trees and all keeping the sun shaded

[Loki]

South Africa is evidence that skin colour takes more than, say, 400 years to adapt to a local environment. We're talking many thousands of years here.

Families of Afrikaners who have been in the country for more than 300 years can have skin colour equally light to their genetic relatives in Northern Europe. Similarly, black families can be almost as dark as their distant relatives in West Africa.

[Äike]

I think the same question goes with relatively dark (for Asians) pigmentation of Inuits and other populations near the North Pole. Dark complexion helps the body to preserve more Vitamin D, something important on the North Pole, however is that needed on the Equator, where the people are also dark? Or as they say, Inuits are dark because they consume much fish fat - one of the best sources of that vitamin. Can we believe that theory?
If skin tone was only an adoptive trait, not racial (as some claim), then why the people in Southern America are lighter than those living under the same sun radiation amount in Africa?

P.S. Sorry for the stupid questions...

The American Indians came from Northern Eurasia, that's why.

[SilverKnight]

No offence but you're as dumb as a pile of rocks, lol

how does a good question make me dumb??

I guess that pile of rocks you where talking about is you.

Long shot
Could it not be the jungle environment---trees and all keeping the sun shaded

yea I was also thinking same about that

[Loki]

how does a good question make me dumb??

I guess that pile of rocks you where talking about is you.

It's not a good question if you haven't at least made a little effort to do your own research before asking a question which is fairly obvious. It betrays your ignorance and laziness at the same time.

[SilverKnight]

It's not a good question if you haven't at least made a little effort to do your own research before asking a question which is fairly obvious. It betrays your ignorance and laziness at the same time.

Well then i guess all the questions asked before and after by others in this forum should be also researched by themselves as well.

I hate arguments and i don't feel like getting into one now. I being all around google, trying to find an answer and none, so why shouldn't this forum be also part of where i get that source?.. :b

[Tabiti]

The American Indians came from Northern Eurasia, that's why.

I know, but the evolutionary theory says that spending too much years in one environment should lead to body changes due to adaptation. There's no big difference between skin colour of Northern American Indians and South American ones. Maybe more time is needed to become black?