African hair
Posted by Nova on March 20, 2001 at 11:05:55: Previous Next
Hi. I was wondering actually why people of African descent can't grow long hair like Europeans and Asians. Why is their hair nappy and such, while ours grows freely? This isn't trying to be racist, I am just wondering.
Nova(John)
Re: African hair
Posted by Paco on March 20, 2001 at 17:39:32: Previous Next
In Reply to: African hair posted by Nova on March 20, 2001 at 11:05:55:
: Hi. I was wondering actually why people of African descent can't grow long hair like Europeans and Asians. Why is their hair nappy and such, while ours grows freely? This isn't trying to be racist, I am just wondering.
: Nova(John)
They are just programmed by nature to have afros. Most Black hair is a big puffy afro. The Blacks have a smaller pool of different physical characteristics than Caucasians, especially in hair. Whites can potentially have just about anything: nappy, straight, curly, wavy, black, brown, blonde, silver, red, gray, and white. The Black person is limited to: black, nappy, straight (uncommon), silver.
Re: African hair
Posted by Bard on March 20, 2001 at 21:29:32: Previous Next
In Reply to: Re: African hair posted by Paco on March 20, 2001 at 17:39:32:
: The Blacks have a smaller pool of different physical characteristics than Caucasians, especially in hair. Whites can potentially have just about anything: nappy, straight, curly, wavy, black, brown, blonde, silver, red, gray, and white. The Black person is limited to: black, nappy, straight (uncommon), silver.
This is an interesting take on African hair. Actually, caucasian characteristics have evolved from African characteristics. The gene pool that caucausians came from originated in Africa. So, caucasian genes are recessive and descended from African ones. Another way of putting it is that all the variations of caucasian hair are wrapped up in African hair.
But isn't that unproven?
Posted by Nova on March 21, 2001 at 10:17:37: Previous Next
In Reply to: Re: African hair posted by Bard on March 20, 2001 at 21:29:32:
This is an interesting take on African hair. Actually, caucasian characteristics have evolved from African characteristics. The gene pool that caucausians came from originated in Africa. So, caucasian genes are recessive and descended from African ones. Another way of putting it is that all the variations of caucasian hair are wrapped up in African hair.
This is all assuming the theory that all human(homosapien) life started in Africa, which hasn't been proven. I'm not quite sure it did start in Africa, mainly because of the archaelogical evidence that shows the existence oh homo sapiens in Europe and Asia around the same time it was in Africa, which doesn't support the idea that all human life started in Africa. I'm not saying you are right or I am right, but I do think that its an interesting debate, though. Back to hair-the genes that cause a black person to have nappy hair are dominant to the ones that cause a person to have, say long silky hair.......I once knew a person whose mother was balck and her father was white, and her hair was naturally a reddish tone to it, and she was light skinned, not as light as a white person, but not dark at all. This means she had recessive genes, then? (If I sound like a loonatic, ignore me.)
Nova(John)
What I mean is this:
Posted by Nova on March 23, 2001 at 17:49:03: Previous Next
In Reply to: But isn't that unproven? posted by Nova on March 21, 2001 at 10:17:37:
The human species very well may have all evoloved from the 'Out of Africa' theory. But, there are a number of famous scientist who have a different theroy, that in the begining human phases of development, there were 3 species or subspecies of homos (sapiens being one, but I can't remember the other two). One was the caucasiod, one the mongaloid, and the negroid. These were respectifully, white, asian or oriental, and black. If these were all three subspecies, they would have been genetically close enough to produce fertile offspring, and thus the theory goes that while the HomoSapien may have originated in Africa, somewhere along the line of evolution, they negroid division and the other two divisions melted into one another through generations and generations of inter breeding, and produced the people we know today. If this is true, the Peking man, the Neandertal, and the HomoSapien(african) may have 'merged' and such. This is what I am trying to say. Hope it was clear this time.
Nova(John)
Re: African hair
Posted by Bill on March 22, 2001 at 10:04:22: Previous Next
In Reply to: African hair posted by Nova on March 20, 2001 at 11:05:55:
: Hi. I was wondering actually why people of African descent can't grow long hair like Europeans and Asians. Why is their hair nappy and such, while ours grows freely? This isn't trying to be racist, I am just wondering.
Most experts believe skin color variations are caused by the amount of sunlight in areas where indigenous peoples lived - dark skin resulting from sunnier areas, light skin from less-lit areas. One could similarly argue caucasians are hairiest simply because they lived where it is coldest. :-)