What makes black people's skin black, what makes white people's skin white?

Question

what is it that makes us not the same color all over the earth?

Answer 1

04012011

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Melanin is to coloured skin tones as ___________________is to white skin colouring?  What is the name of this white pigmentation that can be altered with variant amounts of melanin and environment?  Melanin is to coloured skin and ________________ is genetically  to white skin colouring? What is the name of the gene for white skin colouring regardless to the amount of melanin genetically transferred to man and the environment?  What is the genetic white palette upon which melanin is introduced?

 

Answer 2

All Humans originally originated in Africa and during the course of their evolution there, the genes in their bodies continually would have slowly cranked melanin (a pigment in our skin which protects us from the harmful rays of the sun and also helps produce vitamin D in our bodies) production to the point where many 'black' people we see today are. As migration out of Africa started and continued, the need for melanin in the skin going into places like northern Europe and Asia would have lessened over tens of thousands of years and the genes for producing melanin become more and more recessive. as we know skin color does not change as you move around or from generation to geberation because except in the rare cases of a mutation, genes work over a monumentally slow time on the human life scale. Hope i helped here. @tweetymonkey :)

Answer 3

melanin is a natural pigment that makes humans skin,hair and eye color. The different production amount is determined by your genes which tell your body how much to produce. This pigment remains in humans eyes and skin color that they were born with, but only disapears in your hair as humans age. All humans have melanin which makes color and makes us look human. only humans that lack this pigment are ablino they and it happens in all races. It's not natural for humans to turn a different color it depends on the genes they have to be born with a certain amount of this pigment in their gentic makeup.