Submitted by dxrknxrth t3_ztc5yv in askscience
ViskerRatio t1_j22masn wrote
Reply to comment by Lyndeead in Are people who live in certain climates less susceptible to the effects of the weather there? by dxrknxrth
> only within the last 300,000 approx.
Pale skin emerged in a similar time frame. However, going that far back you're talking mostly about pre-human species. More importantly, you're talking about pre-human species that didn't live outside of temperate zones.
If cold = pale skin, then how did pale skin emerge hundreds of thousands of years before settlement of cold regions?
> Bergman’s rule and Allen’s rule are the two guiding rule for my statements.
I believe you're misusing them. They're intended for discussions of speciation, not minor variations within a single species.
> Climatic adaptation and hominid evolution: the thermoregulation imperative.
Your original point was about modern human beings and the variations we see, not about pre-human species that evolved into humans.
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