Why are Amerindians dark?

**Synapsid** · 02-25-2020, 10:43 PM

Originally Posted by The Blade

Mats Hummels is to blame

He is not dark.

**Synapsid** · 02-25-2020, 10:44 PM

bump

**Synapsid** · 02-25-2020, 10:46 PM

Originally Posted by Adamastor

We know they had the genes for light-skin, not that they were uniformly light-skinned. ANE groups also had genes for blond hair and were uniformly dark-haired.

Lighter pigmentation is a recent phenomenon.

I believe there was separate ANE groups that contributed to Iranics, Europeans and Native Americans. Old stock Mal'ta Buret was dark, but Afontova gora was proto-light and the EHG were full blown pale like Northern Europeans, but had majority brown eyes,

**Token** · 02-25-2020, 10:49 PM

Kets, the closest living relatives of Amerindians are also dark skinned, despite having extremely high levels of ANE.

**Synapsid** · 02-25-2020, 10:55 PM

Originally Posted by Token

Kets, the closest living relatives of Amerindians are also dark skinned, despite having extremely high levels of ANE.

Why do think this was the case? Old Stock Mal'ta type ANE was dark, but I guess the ANE contribution to Finno-Urgaic and Europeans were light.

**~~FilleDuRoi~~** · 02-25-2020, 11:02 PM

Originally Posted by Token

Kets, the closest living relatives of Amerindians are also dark skinned, despite having extremely high levels of ANE.

Kets have light brown to sallow skin just like Northeast Asians:

**luc2112** · 02-25-2020, 11:04 PM

Originally Posted by Token

Kets, the closest living relatives of Amerindians are also dark skinned, despite having extremely high levels of ANE.

Kets/altaics are ancestors of the Amerindians of the haplogroup Q3-M3 (very close to the European haplogroup R), they are light-skinned. The haplogroup C3 Amerindians have another ancestor and are darker.

**luc2112** · 02-25-2020, 11:07 PM

The first humans were light-skinned or light brown. There was probably a desert region in Southern Asia that caused Indian Caucasians and Mongolians (C3) to have more dark skin.
There are no white skin genes it is only minor melanin.

**~~Adamastor~~** · 02-25-2020, 11:10 PM

My God... Once the retard jump in a thread it's over.

**Queue** · 02-25-2020, 11:27 PM

Amerindians can be as light as East Asians sometimes. The trait shows up actually, it's not uncommon. I believe it's from our arctic dwelling ancestors. Luckily we evolved darker skin as our ancestors spread out in the Americas.

There was a study published last year on why some Latin Americans have light skinned, it revealed it's because of their Native American ancestors and not always from their European side.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019...ave-light-skin.