Genetics doesn’t affect the look of an ethnicity so much.

[thenewestmember]

Look of an ethnicity most depend on its geography, climate, traditions, culture.

[Borat]

I disagree

[thenewestmember]

I disagree

Why?

[Oneeye]

Fucking what

[PaleoEuropean]

Somewhat true it's called complex genetics, genetics do play an important part; but environment, diet, selective breeding etc also play an important part.

https://www.uptodate.com/contents/principles-of-complex-trait-genetics

[PaleoEuropean]

Interesting study

https://www.earth.com/news/true-blonde-hair-genetics/

[thenewestmember]

Fucking what

why not? this is a true observation

[Jana]

LOL!

[thenewestmember]

LOL!

my observation is true

[Jana]

my observation is true

It's nonsense. Look is primarly determined by genetics.

[Voskos]

Possible. DNA can still not be overlooked though.

[nittionia]

They play a large role but definitely not as much as a lot of people here think. Many ethnicities are way more diverse than they are portrayed.


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[thenewestmember]

It's nonsense. Look is primarly determined by genetics.

false

[Voskos]

Asian Americans, they all look caucasoid-admixed.Some of them probably are.

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1bv67Q2eAFI/WoumD78qahI/AAAAAAAAJIk/1ey-7xlrK40OJIkIXFd5rwyglRvy1xvLwCLcBGAs/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/olympics2018_4.jpg.

[Jana]

false

You're a troll account anyway, probably of Bisagul.

[Samnium]

Dumb assertion.

[Duffmannn]

The climate and the geographical isolation, at the long term, defines genetical and thus phenotypical differences, that´s the reason why people from northern latitudes (europeans, north asians) have lighter skin than equatorial peoples (africans, hindus, southeast asians, melanesians, australoids). But this process takes millenia to develop.

He has a point on this.

But as the phenotypical (and psicological, social too) differences are strong and have widely develop, we can say that the main differenciating element in phenotypes nowadays are genetics. Africans living in Europe or USA won´t became european magically, their genetic heritage is what it is, it would take millenia to change it (and anyways they would differenciate genetically from the africans remaining in Africa due to geographical isolation and differenciate genetical evolution, and this includes miscegenation with other types). Spaniards have been living in Americas since 500 years ago and there´s no known genetical convergence between the types that haven´t miscegenated, they are still genetical, phenotypical, mentally, socially and linguistically spaniards.

[Leto]

Asian Americans, they all look caucasoid-admixed.Some of them probably are.

[IMG]https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1bv67Q2eAFI/WoumD78qahI/AAAAAAAAJIk/1ey-7xlrK40OJIkIXFd5rwyglRvy1xvLwCLcBGAs/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/olympics2018_4.jpg
All look Caucasoid-admixed? Lol. If I posted a lot less Asian-influenced people from my side, you'd probably be one of the first to brand them as 'mongoloid' since you don't like Slavs, especially Eastern ones (as far as I understand).

[Duffmannn]

Asian Americans, they all look caucasoid-admixed.Some of them probably are.

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1bv67Q2eAFI/WoumD78qahI/AAAAAAAAJIk/1ey-7xlrK40OJIkIXFd5rwyglRvy1xvLwCLcBGAs/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/olympics2018_4.jpg.

They are relatively light-skinned (and at least four are clearly mixed). But this doesn´t become them loooking european looking.

[Ford]

Of course it does, but autosomal DNA is largely irrelevant to how one will look.

[Leto]

Many factors are important including diet, environment, etc. but of course whites don't turn into blacks and vice versa after a couple of centuries of living outside their respective homelands.

[JosephK]

Genetics largely determines phenotype, but obviously phenotype is affected by environmental factors. Noticeable difference between American Anglos and Irish and the English and actual Irish, respectively. And you can tell when an American is largely Polish but can still tell the difference between an American Pole and Polish Pole.

[joanna_38]

True. I may have a lot of Balkan and all that East European in my DNA. But honestly, i just look like a complete copy of my Greek dad. Except skin tone & body type. Eyes, eyebrows, face shape, nose, behavior, personality, its all my dad's.

EDIT: EXCEPT HAIR COLOR, i'm the only blonde in the entire family. lol

EDIT2: But then again my mom insisted at some point that my blonde hair was caused by my old CHAMOMILE SHAMPOO and so it caused my hair to be permanently blonde :)

EDIT3: But lately she tells me its because her sister had my hair color when she was young & my dad tells me had blonde hair as a child (which i don't believe) and neither does my mom <-

[Oneeye]

Genetics largely determines phenotype, but obviously phenotype is affected by environmental factors. Noticeable difference between American Anglos and Irish and the English and actual Irish, respectively. And you can tell when an American is largely Polish but can still tell the difference between an American Pole and Polish Pole.

This is called EPIGENETICS.

[JosephK]

This is called EPIGENETICS.

Actually that's part of it, the other part is just plasticity.

[Oneeye]

People here have no idea what they're talking about.

Genotype determines phenotype. Phenotype in turn is shaped by environmental stresses and errors in cell replication.


Plasticity is epigenetic.

[Joso]

Somewhat true it's called complex genetics, genetics do play an important part; but environment, diet, selective breeding etc also play an important part.

https://www.uptodate.com/contents/principles-of-complex-trait-genetics

Why the "but"? There is no contradiction in your premisse and in what comes after, in your comment.

[JosephK]

People here have no idea what they're talking about.

Genotype determines phenotype. Phenotype in turn is shaped by environmental stresses and errors in cell replication.


Plasticity is epigenetic.

The term 'epigenetic' is more specific than that, though, referring to changes in gene expression due to the environment; plasticity is just the basic physical response to environmental stimuli.

[Dorian]

Of course it does, but autosomal DNA is largely irrelevant to how one will look.

Dis