Why Did Native Americans Develop a Very Dark Skin?

[Kess]

It doesn't make sense to me considering the climate they live in.

[Laredo]

That's a good question I believe has to do with evolution also the closest you get to the tropical regions of America Amerindians tend to get endomorph and shorter than northern american natives.

[Mortimer]

That's a good question I believe has to do with evolution also the closest you get to the tropical regions of America Amerindians tend to get endomorph and shorter than northern american natives.

Do you think the movie Avatar is about amerindians?

[Incal]

It doesn't make sense to me considering the climate they live in.

Sun hits harder here, regardless of temperature. In the Andes, you'll get sunburned in the open and freeze in the shadow.

[Kess]

Sun hits harder here, regardless of temperature. In the Andes, you'll get sunburned in the open and freeze in the shadow.

As far as I know, Native Americans exhibit the highest levels of ANE admixture among various populations.

They are literally from Hyperborea.

How do you explain North American natives being dark?

[Incal]

How do you explain North American natives being dark?

Who knows. I've never seen one of those but once in a while, people comment that silvids are the most gracile amerinds out there.

[vader]

they are a super divergent, and isolated population that can trace their roots to extremely ancient populations. It isn't like europeans that can trace our lineages to more recent mixing from indo-europeans, anatolian farmers which had alleles for lighter pigment. Hell, even mesolithic hg's are less ancient than most of the migrants into america and they were quite dark too. Often the further ancient you are, the darker the skin... so we can predict that's a large reason as to why. But pigmentation varies quite a bit on more individual level.

[aherne]

They definitely don't have a very dark skin, but somewhat reddish hue. I think they preserve the original condition of paleo-Eurasians

[Laredo]

They definitely don't have a very dark skin, but somewhat reddish hue. I think they preserve the original condition of paleo-Eurasians

they are a super divergent, and isolated population that can trace their roots to extremely ancient populations. It isn't like europeans that can trace our lineages to more recent mixing from indo-europeans, anatolian farmers which had alleles for lighter pigment. Hell, even mesolithic hg's are less ancient than most of the migrants into america and they were quite dark too. Often the further ancient you are, the darker the skin... so we can predict that's a large reason as to why. But pigmentation varies quite a bit on more individual level.

If I'm not mistaken white /pale skin Is something much more recent that got Introduced to Europeans before that were "brown skinned" so perhaps the could be the reason too since amerindians 1/4 decent from those caucasoids?

[Abdelnour]

Having partial ancestry of ANE doesn't mean much when individual genes of light skin, blue eyes, blonde hair, etc...was not formed until well after the Native Americans split from Western Europeans.

What was their primary diet? Light skin was accelerated in the fact that most Europeans consumed dairy products. Most Northern Asians in the same latitude are darker looking in comparison.

The reddish skin in Native Americans is probably because they were outside and did not wear much upper body clothing.