PublicSeverance t1_jeebny0 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 12:09 PM

Reply to comment by eugene20 in TIL in the 1920s, Coco Chanel accidentally got a tan, and helped inspire the trend of sunbathing. Soon "sunlight therapy" was prescribed for almost every ailment from fatigue to tuberculosis. Before this, tanned skin was associated with the lower classes who work outside, and fair skin was revered. by Pfeffer_Prinz

> get as dark under the sun after a few evolutionary cycles

Roughly 100 generations is the quickest it can happen.

That's 2500 years.

For context, in 500BC the global population was 100 million, the iron age had not yet started, none of the Abrahamic religions would exist for another 4 centuries, Rome had just become a republic but was still just a random unimportant little city, Buddha was born and Pythagoras discovered how to talk about triangles.

eugene20 t1_jeef1v7 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 12:39 PM

That's less time than I thought.