Why caucasians are more diversified?

Question

.....you can find Caucasians with different hair color,red ,blond ,brown,black.Same thing for the eyes,Why these traits are not found in Afro or Asiatic origins.

Answer 1

Caucasians, historically, have had more blending of genes. Genetic traits in Caucasians are more diversified in an overall sense because for a long period of time, white Europeans were the dominant imperialists. Colonization of the Americas, India, and Africa by Europeans of course brought cultural diffusion and mixing of the races.

Answer 2

I can't tell you. They all look alike to me.

Answer 3

You're just used to the differences between Europeans.  Yeah, we've got crazy-wide hair and eye color differences, but Africans are far more diverse in their heights.  Each race has a "look"- in fact, that's largely what determines race.  There are variations within this look, but those variations aren't the same between different races.  So us white people can have a lot of different hair colors, but other races have different variations.

When you get used to seeing a certain ethnic group, you get used to seeing the variations.  For instance, I grew up in a place without a lot of Native Americans.  When I see a Native American, I know they're native, but that's about it.  A friend of mine who grew up out west near a bunch of reservations can make pretty good guesses as to what tribe the person belongs to.  It's just what we're used to.

Answer 4

That is so we can be prejudiced against each other, too, and not just against people of color.

If everybody on earth happened to look exactly alike, we would still find reasons for prejudice.

I am being a little sarcastic here; just read between the lines a little bit.

BTW, I have worked in cross-cultural settings, and some of the people did think that all Caucasians look alike. I used to say to them that we are pretty good at telling each other apart.  That always got a laugh.

Answer 5

When you have much melanin you are dark brown to black.  As you get rid of some melanin it becomes red.  Get rid of more and it becomes blond.  It is sort of like trees in the fall.  You need to get rid of the primary pigment because it drowns out any other color.

Answer 6

hmm, actually some blacks have blue eyes...but never seen an asian with blue eyes...good question.

Answer 7

While Caucasions do have different colored eyes & hair, the Africans are the most diversified. Europe does not have groups that average 4' tall & groups that average over 6' 3"  as do Africans.  Africans in West & South West Africa have evolved into sprinters, while those in East Africa tend to be poor sprinters, but fine distance runners.  Africans are so diverse that the East Africans are genetically closer to North Africans & Europeans than to West Africans.

Now some have the hypothesis that Europeans got the very light skin, more curved femar, hair & eyes from the Neandertal.  They see the Neandertal as a cold adapted human that'd had 300,000 yrs to adapt to the colder weather before meeting & mating with at least one Sapien.  Google John Hawks (U of Wisconsin) & Bruce T. Lahn (U of Chicago) to get a run down on the Genes under question. A complete sequencing of the Neandertal genome is targeted for completion in 2009 & should but this debate to rest.

Some Asians have the epicanthic fold (what some see as slanted eyes) and others don't.  Chuckle, & some make very tall basketball players, while others are very short.

Answer 8

It's kind of like deciduous leaves turning color in the fall. The reds and yellows were always there, they were just covered up by the green.

Answer 9

Refer to my answer about the first white man or woman and you will find  an excellent reference book that will help you on such matters.  

Every so often someone comes up with a killer reference book.  I am tickled because two fellow professors used to bark loudly about their atheistic philosophies.  The book is so thorough and deep providing so many answers from translated shards of ancient texts (which affirm thousand-year prophecies) that their deafening silence is bothering me.

Find the question and if you are really serious about one source for hard to find information--BINGO!

Doctor AliciaC

Answer 10

Well its pretty simple! Since our skin melamine has reach a certain lower level, it enable to appearance of diversified colorations in the eyes and in the hair. Chinese do have clear skin but melanine is concentrate in hair and eyes, while black got them all over. So in caucasian, we got various level of melamine all over, including hair, eyes and even skin at some extends. So we look more diversified because of the specific gene related to melamine levels, but not really for anything else... Africans have different genes that formed their muscles (that we don`t have), while Asian got more unified genes.

Answer 11

Actually, there is more genetic diversity in Africa than in Europe.  All of those "differences" are the result of just a few genes.