One day, centuries from now, will all the people of the Earth be the same color?

Question

This only makes sense as populations combine and mix. In fact, now, most people have ancestry that is made up of people from different races.

I would think that one day all humans will basically be the same color.

Does this make sense?

Answer 1

Yah, but we are talking a lot more than a century or two at the rate we are going.

Answer 2

No, but if present trends continue, there will be much more of a continuous spectrum.  People who like a specific extreme will probably continue to select their breeding to favor that extreme.  We are shifting toward much more mobility and much less isolation.  I live in an area which has had a mixed population for many generations.  The differences to tend to blend away.

Answer 3

I doubt it. We were all one color originally (since we all have a common ancestor from which we are all descended, this is for sure).  The colors we have evolved since then are a response to the amount of sunlight that reaches different parts of the earth. Different amounts of melanin allow for different absorption rates. Even if we all put racism behind us and co-mingled forever, the geography will still exert the same evolutionary forces on various parts of society as it always has.

Now if everybody became nomadic and families didn't stay in one part of the world for hundreds generations at a time, then we'd eventually all become the same color. But there's no reason to suspect that we'll ever have a reason to see that happen.

On the other hand, if we enter another ice age and are driven towards the equator, or if global warming eventually becomes so bad as to drive us away from the equator, then our populations will be more concentrated and that will, over time, lead to more homogeneity. In the hot equator situation, we'd probably get one color in the southern hemisphere and another in the northern hemisphere. But even then, unless it's super extreme and puts us all into the same narrow latitude band for a VERY long time, there will still be differences.

Answer 4

NO ARE YOU RETARDED

Answer 5

this does kind of make sense under one condition:

there are specific shades of a race.

for instance if a black and white person have kids their children could be really dark or really light.

so what you're saying would only be true if there was a specific color that a person would be born with and nothing else...

also some families do not mix and some mix with different races...

and another thing what you are saying would also abolish the theory of genes which would mean we would all look the same also...

idk if you follow what im saying but thats my belief... this world will always be like this....different races

Answer 6

I've thought that before too.  Sounds logical and I don't have a problem with it.  Racism would be history.

Answer 7

Yes it does make sense!

But humans have been living for centuries without losing true caucasian skin color, or true black/red/yellow/brown skin color

Answer 8

I think it does. I think future people will be an average, literally, and their color will be a sort of coffee-au-lait, rather like some of the Melanesians today, or maybe Mr. Obama.

They will be handsome, too. Someone combined facial photos in large numbers and averaged them in a computer, and the result was judged to be beautiful.

Answer 9

Do you mean that, in a long time from now, people's family trees will only be one certain race only? Not sure what I'm grasping from this information. Or maybe do you mean that in a long time from now, a Certain color of Race will become extinct and then there will only be one Color of all humans? Hm, either way, an interesting Question! :)

Answer 10

Yep. We'll all be beige.

Answer 11

Hope not..........i like the differences,