Submitted 1 year ago by Bread@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
What would the average skin tone and facial features look like after 300 years if every partner relationship was interracial until there were no other races? Just a hodgepodge of DNA. What would the average human look like having a little bit of everything in them?
I just think the idea is neat is all.
I don’t think 300 years would be enough to completely homogenize all races even if done intentionally.
Even so given the appropriate amount of time, where do you think you might end up?
Measured at what age? You definitely don’t have the same skin now as newborn you. Skincolor is dependend as much on nutritional and eviromental factors as it is on genetic ones. In addition to that the genes don’t simply average out your skin tones. There are enough examples of “interracial” couples having 2 children, one being dark skinned and the other being pale. Your base melanin levels and additional melanin production are two entirely different and independend genetic factors.
Fair enough, measured at 25 and with a healthy nutrition and they do see the sun regularly. That answers the skin tone, but what about facial features? When it is all said and done, what features might take over? Like eye, nose, and mouth shape.
would would?
wood? bread?
charcoal?
Well you do raise a very good point. But what about wood would wheat ash?
National Geographic (I think — it may have been Smithsonian or Scientific American or…) projected this back in the late 80s. The genetic “average” that they generated beautiful.
Probably about like the average now, assuming the same average rate of reproduction for all the different phenotypes.
Do we have any current examples of a human with more than 4 or so distinct racial backgrounds?
At a guess, anywhere around the Mediterranean would likely have people with this profile.
Pretty much everyone.
Race is a human social construct, and in terms of genetic histories only vaguely useful.
I think having a 300 year life span would tend to select for darker skin and possibly other traits that would better survive 300 years of exposure - enough to distinguish it from any existing ethnicity.
Idk, but I’m sure that in at least 200 years genetical modifications will be accessible if everything goes fine.
Probably it will apply to skin tone and facial features and there could be a strange variety of new colors or
most people would pick whatever is considered ‘the best looking’ features in 300 years.
tbh the idea of having the choice of changing genetics sounds good, but it’s impossible to know what will
happen in 300 years.
At least that is what I think possible in the next 300 years.
If we can look like shrek, a not insignificant portion of the population would do so. I mean, who wouldn’t want to look like the ideal body type?
Shrek is love, Shrek is life, Shrek is high fashion.
Probably a mixture of Arabic and Asian features.
I was betting a lightish brown skin tone with Asian feature set. However, I believe you might be closer to what it might be.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There are no races in the first place.
Eavolution@kbin.social 1 year ago
I mean there are general genetic differences due to where people are from. Is that not what a race is?
Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
The whole race theory has been debunked over a century ago. You also have genetic difference in foot shape, blood type and many more, and a race system build on that would be as wrong as one based on skin colour
Naich@kbin.social 1 year ago
There's genetic differences between you and everyone else in your family. Are you a different race to them?
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You have to ask biology, not politicians. That’s the major change!
Biology’s answer is simple, and it hasn’t changed during the last 50 years or so.
Bread@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
The only reason I refer to it that way is because it is easily understood and is how a lot of paperwork refers to it. In my opinion, it makes it sound like we we are a completely different alien species.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Only by racists.
u202307011927@feddit.de 1 year ago