Hi Anne: Perhaps some genetic detective work might indicate how long ago a constellation of genetic mutations came about in the FOXP2 gene (Molecular evolution...
... Anne, I would also distinguish between the insulating properties of a fur coat, which can to some degree control heat absorption (and loss) with a layer of...
Jack: It's my belief that much of what we consider to be "quintessentially human" started to emerge at the very least at the time of H.erectus. It may have...
Ross: It's certainly true that the darkest-skinned people live or originally come from areas that are, relatively speaking, close to the equator(and are hot...
Jack: According to Bednarik, there is plenty of evidence of symbolic behavior by H.erectus(or whatever) during the Lower Paleolithic. However, much of what...
Odd thing though, the asssociation of skin colour with sun. The darkest people I know, in fact the only genuinely black people I know (as opposed to the dark...
Anne and all, If I understand it correcty, the rays of the sun that cause cancer and sunburn are not deflected by clouds, so theoreticly even on a cloudy day a...
Paul: Interesting observation. But it's still my understanding that "darker" skins tend to cluster around the Equator, whereas "lighter" skins are farther...
Elena: As I think I mentioned earlier, I became painfully aware of this fact when I lived in Texas, and one fine "partly-cloudy" day in June, I became visibly...
Did I not read, here or on Palanth, that there was a colour cline in Australia, with lighter skin to the south? Maybe the lach of such a cline in smaller...
... You can get a sunburn when you least expect it. Once upon a time I had a girlfriend from Jamaica, -mixed ancestry, but a lot of African. She got her first...
"Scattered families" does not automatically specify monogamy. The only family that can be firmly established is mother-child for pre-historic humans. I think...
Bit hard to be sure of original colour distribution in Australia, I would have thought. Certainly some central and northern people can be very dark - but the...
Hi Paul, I suspect you are correct about how tentative color variation was among the original Australians. There definitely isn't enough latitude spread there...
"Scattered families" does not automatically specify monogamy. The only family that can be firmly established is mother-child for pre-historic humans. When I...
I don't agree that diversity and denser populations are condusive to monogamy nor that multiple sexual partners insures diversity in small populations. All...
... Me, I would guess that economic considerations and predation drive choice of monogamy or harems. David Snow in _The Web of Adaptation_, details behaviour...
Carel: It's possible you heard or read it somewhere. C.L. Brace claimed there was such a "color cline" in Australia. But bear in mind that Papua-NG is a lot...
Torfinn: Was she near water at the time? The only time I've ever gotten a "serious" sunburn in the Seattle area is when I've been where sunlight is reflected...
Re Truganini and other Tasmanians photographed in the 19th Century: Not only are photos from that era black and white, but they aren't panchromatic, either....
Anne I don't remember which yahoogroup this came up but I do remember the context. And it was either Loring-Brace himself or someone referring to what he'd...
Jack, I think a closer look at the wolf analog is in order. In wolves, it is restricted alpha-only breeding and is actually enforced on beta females by the...
... John, I would say that description is more adaptable to recent times and recent densities than the original conditions that saw the first humans and...
Dave, You ought to try photographing purple flowers even with modern color film. You almost never get true color representations of your various varieties,...
... <carel.goodheir@...> wrote: snip ... If one validates easy transference of a wide spread skin color pattern as a consolidated genetic trait, then one also...
Well, the dyes aren't perfect (especially the cyan and magenta), but neither are the phosphors, LEDs, LCDs, and other means of generating an image on computer...
Carel: Yes, C.L. Brace actually proposed that Neandertals had light skin, hair, and eyes, which now seems to be borne out by various lines of "genetic"...
Dale: The situation with wolves(and other members of the genus Canis as well) is a bit more complicated than that. It's true that there is only one "alpha...
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