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With Europe getting warmer due to climate change, how long do you think it would take to reativate the recessive genes that make for higher melanin production? (lemmygrad.ml)
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Kind of a shitpost fyi, but since all humans initially had dark skin (more melanin) and only slowly got fairer skin (less melanin) in regions with less UV radiation in the northern hemisphere, would this also be reversable?

How long does it usually take to see these changes in mammals? Probably thousands of years right?

I mean it would kind of solve racism if we don't have a political system by then that treats all humans like humans.

Please don't take this post too seriously I just had this idea of a white supremacist having an identity crisis due to having more darker skinned children because of climate change haha (Insert some joke about Yakubian apes here)

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[–] FishLake@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is hilarious and ridiculous and exactly the thing I needed to take my mind off a busy day.

Anyway, I think you’re getting heat mixed up with latitude. Peoples have developed darker skin closer to the equator.

[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Peoples have developed darker skin closer to the equator.

It is the opposite. People were dark first and got lighter as they migrated north.

[–] FishLake@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 days ago

True. Though populations that have migrated to equatorial latitudes also become more melanated.