Why some of Greeks have interesting beautiful dark skin?

Question

I think they have have original color of dark skin, not like Roma or African people and only there Greek people have a bit Ancient Greek heredity. I think that is the most beautiful color of skin.

Answer 1

The skin color of the Greeks is the same like the rest of southern Europeans and it is part of the Mediterranean group (together with Italy, Spain and southern France)

That means that the skin color varies from blond, pale white till southern dark {not black of course or Arabic. (There are Roma in Greece of course)}

Of course the skin tone depends on how much you exposure your skin under the sun! Anyone from every country in Europe will get a darker skin if he expose under the sun.

So Rouse that beautiful dark tone you see in some Greeks is the product of intense suntan or even Solarium! (During winter only Solarium can preserve the suntan even in Greece)

Check the links below to see some Greek faces just to demonstrate how Greeks look like since obviously some users have never actually seen a Greek!!!!

http://www.angeltowns.net/membercenter/1...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympia_Duk...

http://www.acemodels.gr/models.asp?cid=2...

http://www.acemodels.gr/modelpage.asp?id...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Linda...

http://www.manhunt.com.sg/title-h/1994.h...

http://www.geocities.com/greek_race/gree...

As for “Plav a” answers (a know troll against Greece) it is incredible how he lies!!

There was never of course any research form the Spanish academy!!!

There was a completely discredited research from some Slav-Macedonians “scientist” with the participation of a Spanish notorious genetist!

For your information the SPECIFIC RESEARCH IS HIGHLY DISCREDITED AND EXTREMELY CRITISEZED AS WITH NO SCIENTIFIC VALUE! (Those Slav-Macedonians even claimed that Japanese are of sub-Saharan origin!!!!)

Let’s see the real facts behind that “research”!

There is a study from 2001 by Arnaiz-Villena (conducted entirely in Slavic/Albanian-Macedonia with the participation of Slav-Macedonian scientists). Against any ethics, no Greek scientist participate and no Greek genetic material was requested by Greek laboratories)

This “research” maps 28 world population based on the HLA DRB1 locus, concluding that "…the Greeks were closely related with sub-Saharan ethnic groups now residing in Ethiopia, Sudan, and West Africa (Burkina Faso)." Later that year, the same data was used in another study by the same author published in a different journal. This second paper dealt specifically with the relatedness of Palestinians and Israelis and was subsequently retracted as unscientific.

Shortly after, three respected geneticists - Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Alberto Piazza and Neil Risch - countered this strange research by pointing out the scientific limitations of Arnaiz-Villena's methodology.

They stated that "Using results from the analysis of a single marker, particularly one LIKELY TO HAVE UNDERGONE SELECTION, for the purpose of reconstructing genealogies is UNREALIABEL AND UNACCEPTABLE practice in population genetics.", making specific allusion to the findings on Greeks (among others) as "ANOMALUS RESULTS, WHICH CONTRADICT HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, ANTHROPOLOGY AND ALL PRIOR POPULATION-GENETIC STUDIES OF THESE GROUPS”

And a very interesting passage

“HLA genes ARE NOT USED AS A VALID MAESURE to determine ancestry since HLA genes, which control immune responses and are subject to environmental selection. This means they're NOT RELIABLE IN DETERMING ANCESTRAL AFFINITY, as using them thus can find bonds of kinship between Greeks and Japanese, as well as between Nordics in Iceland and Negroids in the Congo!!!”

(Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of

Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA Alberto Piazza

Department of Genetics, Biology and Biochemistry,

University of Torino, Via Santena 19, 10126 Torino, Italy L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza

Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of

Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA)

As for real Greek genes the genetic researches from credible scientists clearly state:

In The History and Geography of Human Genes (Princeton, 1994), Cavalli-Sforza, Menozzi and Piazza grouped Greeks with other European and Mediterranean populations based on 120 loci (view MDS plot). Then, Ayub et al. 2003 did the same thing using 182 loci.

(The History and Geography of Human Genes

LL Cavalli-Sforza, P Menozzi and A Piazza

Princeton University Press)

And as described in National geographic in the Genographic project (atlas of the human journey): “Today haplogroup H comprises 40 to 60 percent of the gene pool of most European population. In Rome and Athens for example the frequency of the (haplogroup) H is around 40% percent of the entire population! And it exhibits similar frequencies throughout Western Europe!”

“ In a sample of 125 Greeks from Thessaloniki and Sarakatsani, 2 Asian-specific mtDNA sequences (M and D) were detected (1.6%). No sub-Saharan African genes were observed in this population. Therefore, Non-Caucasoid maternal ancestry in Greece is very low, as elsewhere in Europe.”

(Richards et al., Am J Hum Genet, 2000)

And

“In a sample of 366 Greeks from thirteen locations in continental Greece, Crete, Lesvos and Chios, a single African haplogroup A Y-chromosome was found (0.3%). This marks the only instance to date of sub-Saharan DNA being discovered in Greece. In another sample of 42 Greeks, one sequence of the Siberian Tat-C haplogroup turned up. Note that other studies with larger sample populations have failed to detect this paternal marker in the Greek gene pool (e.g. Malaspina et al. 2000; Weale et al. 2001), and that its frequencies are actually much higher in Scandinavian and Slavic populations.

(Di Giacomo et al., Mol Phyl Evol, 2003;

Helgason et al., Am J Hum Genet, 2000)  

The completely discredited research continues to be cited only  by White Supremacists, Afro centrists and Pseudo-Macedonian nationalists (like the user Plav a ) who have political motivations to relate ancient Greeks (or modern) to black Africans. However, it's no longer referenced by population geneticists in contemporary research, mainly due to the criticism of Cavalli-Sforza et al.

(for some users:Have you actually visit Greece?

have you seen any Greek??)

Answer 2

The Spanish Academy of science have made an expertize about the blood in  all Mediterranean peoples.

DNA of Macedonians shows enormous similarity with Jews and other Mediterranean peoples.

Unfortunately, Greek DNA haplotypes shows great similarity with Sub-Saharan tribes Oromo and Amhara.

Sapienti sat.

Answer 3

Well its because there bodies produce more melanin than other Mediterranean peoples. Yea it looks nice...

Answer 4

thanks a lot someone to appreciate my dark color don't forget the Turkey people had Greeks at slavery for a few hundred years and they mix up with Greeks and had children which produce this color dark if you notice on the island they are darker than other some parts of  are,greece they have turkies last name as for we are 5 sisters i an darkest and my hair brown and eyes black-brown my sisters are white and light hair if you see us we don't look like sisters but my father is dark

Answer 5

Persian heridity maybe... Surely not greek caucasians...

Answer 6

have you seen polynesians yet? people just above or below the equator have a certain glow to their skins.

Answer 7

excessive use of tanning lotions and a lot of makeup.