Will non-white immigrants become lighter (in colder climates)?

[renaissance12]

I'm not sure if anyone around here has asked themselves the same question: Would non-European immigrants flocking north eventually become lighter/ adapt to colder temperature generically and physically ??

Also, are there any studies out there related to this?

No..

[Peterski]

How about the opposite - will White Australians become dark like Aborigines?

[Rafael Passoni]

I think there isn't an evolutionary pressure nowadays. We can seek a doctor easily.

[Peterski]

I think there isn't an evolutionary pressure nowadays. We can seek a doctor easily.

Is there even a pressure for lighter skin in Western Europe?

Western Hunter Gatherers (WHGs) could only seek a shaman and they still remained rather dark-skinned (or at least they didn't have the same lightening mutations as modern Europeans).

In the end WHGs did not evolve very light skin, but they got mostly replaced (remnants were assimilated) by lighter immigrants from the east.

[rothaer]

Is there even a pressure for lighter skin in Western Europe?

Western Hunter Gatherers (WHGs) could only seek a shaman and they still remained rather dark-skinned (or at least they didn't have the same lightening mutations as modern Europeans).

In the end WHGs did not evolve very light skin, but they got mostly replaced (remnants were assimilated) by lighter immigrants from the east.

WHGs did get their vitamin D by animal fat from hunting like Eskimos do. So there was no need for vitamin D synthetisizing in the skin, like the farmers with their diet had.

[Rafael Passoni]

Is there even a pressure for lighter skin in Western Europe?

Western Hunter Gatherers (WHGs) could only seek a shaman and they still remained rather dark-skinned (or at least they didn't have the same lightening mutations as modern Europeans).

In the end WHGs did not evolve very light skin, but they got mostly replaced (remnants were assimilated) by lighter immigrants from the east.

Wikipedia has not achieved consensus in the matter, but I think it have to do with climate in a way bc human skin pigmentation shows a positive correlation with ultraviolet radiation intensity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_skin

[Chocolatepug37]

Pakistanis and Indians aren't going to turn pale in a few generations, or ever. While pale skin may have an advantage as it's preferred in a female mate (sexual selection) you would need those with lighter skin tone to have more children and while that can have a significant impact on a small population it won't with a large population.

Probably not because that is dominant in their genes. However geneticists found through study that if a group of homogeneous people split, and formed smaller groups, the dominant genes in each individual would soon take over and everyone would take on that trait and each split group would in a few generations look different from one another. With the people you speak of, the dominant genes already took over so it would take a lot longer unless there was a mutation and that mutation was dominant. Not likely. It would need to happen in a smaller group. Plus Darker skin is usually dominant genes if I understand correctly