Paleocity versus Dark hair? anybody else out there?
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We are what we are. Be happy with the life God gave you and when people comment about your coloring, just give them a smile and say, "yeah, unusual huh? I like it!"
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I found my first completely white hair at the age of 12.  I found a couple more at 18.  I found maybe 6 at 25, and now that I'm almost *never-mind* years old I find I have A LOT of them.  It's just nature doing it's thing.  It's different for everyone.
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I like to change my hair color every year or so. Right now I'm dark brunette because I like the sexy/serious tone it has.  You know, business-fabulous. Variety is sexy.  Getting stuck in a rut is what makes a person un-sexy.
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My natural hair colour is blond - im the one with my hair up in the photo, I dont believe hair colour has anything to do with they way someone is in bed.\n\nI am more confident with dark hair. Hence the reason its coloured dark brown, Maybe others are more confident with blond hair? Its the person inside not the colour of hair. - i think anyways!
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dark pigments in their skin...a genetic trait
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I think you inherited a mutated gene from your parents, as gingerness is an inherited mutation. Whatever you do DON'T pull the ginger hairs out with tweezers..or else your brown hair will be replaced by ginger hair..Why do you even have a beard anyway.
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um i hope so! gives me a better chance at finding tall dark and latin! actually, according to the current trends, it is moving in that direction.
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As life slowly became a little better for ancient man, he found more leisure time for laying around in the cave, watching the cave drawings, reading the Sunday clay tablets, and working out important problems like how many swallows would be needed to fly a coconut to Europe. As millions of years went by, less exposure to the light of day led to paler whitey dudes. If this hypothesis has modern evidence, it may be the high numbers of pale nerds...\n\n(=}\n(:o\n(8}\n(:)
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Iam an African-American with Chemically Straiten hair, and its not because i wanted to be like any one else or i wanted to have what people might call " whites people hair" its because i felt that i can do my hair faster and better with it being straight. i dont think people should be stereotyped because the have straiten hair. I am Black and very proud of it, even with my straiten hair.
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The evolution of the different skin colors is thought to have occurred as follows: the haired ancestor of humans, like modern great apes, had light skin under their hair. Once the hair was lost, they evolved dark skin, needed to prevent low folate levels since they lived in sun-rich Africa. (The skin cancer connection is probably of secondary importance, since skin cancer usually kills only after the reproductive age and therefore doesn't exert much evolutionary pressure.) When humans migrated to sun-poorer regions in the north, low vitamin D3 levels became a problem and light skin color evolved.\n\nDark-skinned people who live in sun-poor regions often lack vitamin D3, one reason for the fortification of milk with vitamin D in some countries.\n\nThe Inuit are a special case: even though they live in an extremely sun-poor environment, they have retained their relatively dark skin. This can be explained by the fact that their traditional animal-based diet provides plenty of vitamin D.\n\nAlbinism is a condition characterized by the absence of melanin, resulting in white skin and hair; it is caused by a genetic mutation.\n\nResearch on skin color variability:\nThe color of human skin varies from dark brown to pale pink. In attempting to discover the mechanisms that have generated such a wide variation in human skin color, Nina Jablonski and George Chaplin (2000) discovered that there is a high correlation between the coloration of the human skin of indigenous peoples and the average annual ultraviolet (UV) radiation available for skin exposure where the indigenous peoples live. Accordingly, Jablonski and Chaplin plotted the whiteness (W) of skin coloration of indigenous peoples who have stayed in the same geographical area for the last 500 years versus the annual UV available for skin exposure (AUV) for over 200 indigenous persons and found that whiteness W of skin coloration is related to to the annual UV available for skin exposure AUV according to\n\n    W = 70 - [(AUV)/(10)]\n\n(Jablonski and Chaplin (2000), p. 67, formula coefficients have been rounded to one-figure accuracy) where the whiteness W of skin coloration is measured as the percentage of light reflected from the upper inner arm at which location on humans there should be minimal tanning of human skin due to personal exposure to the sun; a lighter skinned human would reflect more light and would have a higher W number. Judging from the above linear fit to the empirical data, the theoretical maximum whitest human skin would reflect only 70 per cent of incident light for a hypothetical indigenous human-like population that lived where there was zero annual UV available for skin exposure (AUV = 0 in the above formula). Jablonski and Chaplin evaluated average annual UV available for skin exposure AUV from satellite measurements that took into consideration the measured daily variation in the thickness of the ozone layer that blocked UV hitting the earth, measured daily variation in opacity of cloud cover, and daily change in angle at which the sunlight containing UV radiation strikes the earth and passes through different thicknesses of earth's atmosphere at different latitudes for each of the different human indigenous peoples' home areas from 1979 to 1992.\n\nJablonski and Chaplin proposed an explanation for the observed variation of untanned human skin with annual UV exposure. By Jablonski and Chaplin's explanation, there are two competing forces affecting human skin color:\n\n   1. the melanin that produces the darker tones of human skin serves as a light filter to protect against too much UV light getting under the human skin where too much UV causes sunburn and disrupts the synthesis of precursors necessary to make human DNA; versus\n   2. humans need at least a minimum threshold of UV light to get deep under human skin to produce vitamin D, which is essential for building and maintaining the bones of the human skeleton.\n\nJablonski and Chaplin
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Yes... I have dark skin as well... and it is harder to burn but we can... so sunscreen can help... but since you are already burned try putting some aloe on
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I am part Native Hawaiian ... via my mother's family ... we can trace our roots back over 200 years ... its amazing really ... geneology can be fascinating ... I have to do mine still ... my cousins have all done theirs already
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Oh Mamasita, NO!  I've tried everything.  You just have to fight it all the way.  Take your vitamins and eat right,  keep your skin clean and moisturized (a good eye cream like PorVentin-AT liftin serum, available at CVS $20) helps.  The grey hair....I dye it.  I stay as active in youthful stuff, actually I never stopped rock and rollin'
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No.  I know a whole family with deep red lips and they are okay.  I think lips are supposed to be dark, not pale.  You're fine.
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Ofcourse it does.  But not if you mean "matter" in a negative context.  I believe it is our differences that make life interesting.  Certainly, the variations in skin color go far to making us interesting looking.  How boring would  it be if we all looked the same.  Unfortunately, in this world "different" seems to equal "bad", "less-than", or "insufficient".  If you don't equate skin color with the negative, you can experience the beautiful spectrum of the human race, just as you would the plants and flowers in a garden. The completion of the mapping of the human genome may well put the race/color question to rest.  At present, from what I understand, it seems there are strong indications that we're all related in some way. If you only see difference as negative, what a shame for you!  You could be rejecting a part of yourself.
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Take a look at the Innuit (eskimos). Their skin is dark. People of Siberia have darker skin than Europeans. I think its more a matter of genetics than the amount of melanin.
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To steal an answer recently posted by someone else, it simply comes down to the lack of need for dark pigmentation at high latitudes.\n\nAt low laititudes the risk of death or illness from skin cancer is higher than the risk of death from rickets. As a result people who lived at low latitides retained dark pigmentation since that provides portection from skin cancer. \n\nNote that it isn't only Asians that retained this trait.  Southern Europeans are no more or less prone to having dark hair than Asians.\n\nAt higher latitudes the risk from skin cancer declined and the risk of rickets increased. Having pale skin reduced the incidence of rickets, so pale pigmentation evolved through a reduction of eumelanin\n\nOne of the side effects of of low eumelanin levels is that it allows for multiple hair colours as well. With no eumelanin at all hair can be blonde, or it can be red colours that are difficult to achive in skin that  has high levels of eumelanin. With moderate levls hair can be brown, and with normal levels the hair can be black.\n\nPeople with normal eumelanin production can only really have one hair colour: black. That's because eumelanin covers over any other pigments.\n\n\nYou will note that it isn't only Asians who have almost exclusively black hair. It is equally Negroes, San, Aborigines, American Indians, Negritoes and so forth. European were freed up by their pale skin to express a range of skin colours not seen in normal humans.\n_________________\n\nMay said "the alleles are inherited and contained in the >>>>>>>same race."\n\nUtter Bollocks. If you are going to answer a question at least have some idea what you are talking about.\n\nThere is no such thing as a biological race. There are no alleles for black hair that are contained within the Asian race.