RE: paleonet peppered moth, out of Africa (only a question for curiosty, all others please delete)

["Jack" <jpenkethman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'll take a wild guess: sexual selection?

Jack

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> Subject: Re: paleonet peppered moth, out of Africa (only a 
> question for curiosty, all others please delete)
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> It is often said that Europeans got pale for reasons of 
> paleoclimatic conditions in the Pleistocene/Holocene.
> 
> On the other hand (here the question): The Asians (Siberians, 
> Indians (in the sense of North America) and Inuit ("Eskimos") 
> experienced similar conditions (also ice margins and thus 
> precipitation, lack of insolation in North America).
> 
> As the insolation was most likely comparable: Why didn t they 
> get pale?
> 
> And: Why did they get a different skin and some (see research 
> the Wella company had to do) different hairs?
> 
> Did they for example get earlier or later as we out of Africa?