.... As I have shared before, I read at times, and I have been able to learn some
intricate facts about hair color from several very intelligent chemists I met along the way.
An example: Natural human hair color begins formation when the baby has been
growing inside the mother for three months. Scientists point to what most probably
creates hair color differences in mammals being linked to the amount of sulfur present
in the bloodstream. Although I'm not an MD, I do find this interesting.
Books about the scientific study of ANCIENT humans, help us understand a bit
about WHY people from different parts of the Earth look different. I tried to learn a
bit more by reading a best-seller, SAPIENS by Oxford PhD, Yuval Noah Harari. A brief history of human kind. This book is NOT an easy read, but it is very informative.
When I read slowly through a few chapters, I began to understand a BIT about
when early humans, many thousands of years ago, formed groups (families) and began migrating to various areas of the world, life was very difficult! So to survive extreme
heat, or extreme cold, wind, exposure to the elements, famine, drought: The human body
needed to adapt. Different environments caused humans to adjust to what affected THEM,
right where they were trying to live. .
Skin and hair protect the body. Thick, dense coarse hair helps protect the skin from extreme
sunlight and from intense exposure to temperature changes. Humans migrating far away from the equator, needed to stay warm, and adapted with bodies which needed to absorb sunlight .. so the eumelanin (natural black pigment in the hair). often became very diffused... a.k.a.
blonde! . .. The humans living at the sunny equator, were exposed to intense heat, so
over time, they survived via development of melanin that protected the body from massive
uva. uvb. exposure.
AND.......... As time went on, when animals were domesticated and used for travel;
later the wheel, and the sail boat, -- all means of moving from place to place were
developed, people from different parts of the world met. When they formed families
varying types of dna combined, and a multitude of varying eye color, hair color and skin color.. all contributions of melanin... became another human advance. We have adapted!
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