What would the average skin tone and facial features look like after 300 years if every partner relationship was interracial until there were no other ethnicities? Just a hodgepodge of DNA. What would the average human look like having a little bit of everything in them?
I just think the idea is neat is all.
I don’t think 300 years would be enough to completely homogenize all races even if done intentionally.
Even so given the appropriate amount of time, where do you think we might end up?
Measured at what age? You definitely don’t have the same skin now as newborn you. Skincolor is dependend as much on nutritional and eviromental factors as it is on genetic ones. In addition to that the genes don’t simply average out your skin tones. There are enough examples of “interracial” couples having 2 children, one being dark skinned and the other being pale. Your base melanin levels and additional melanin production are two entirely different and independend genetic factors.
Fair enough, measured at 25 and with a healthy nutrition and they do see the sun regularly. That answers the skin tone, but what about facial features? When it is all said and done, what features might take over? Like eye, nose, and mouth shape.
would would?
wood? bread?
charcoal?
Well you do raise a very good point. But what about wood would wheat ash?
Needs charcoal oil.
Of course, how could I not think of that?
National Geographic (I think — it may have been Smithsonian or Scientific American or…) projected this back in the late 80s. The genetic “average” that they generated was beautiful.
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Do we have any current examples of a human with more than 4 or so distinct racial backgrounds? Like white and black grandparents with a mixed child with another Asian and middle eastern grandparents also having a mixed child. Then those children having a kid of their own.
At a guess, anywhere around the Mediterranean would likely have people with this profile.
Pretty much everyone.
Race is a human social construct, and in terms of genetic histories only vaguely useful. While it is a useful tool, for say, comparing ancient remains… despite what ancestry.com tells you identify race from genetics of individuals is almost impossible and really stupid.
But they want to make money, and selling your kits and then selling your admixture dna to the highest bidder is big business
Probably a mixture of Arabic and Asian features.
I was betting a lightish brown skin tone with Asian feature set. However, I believe you might be closer to what it might be.
Out of curiosity, I looked up “race” by anthropological terms in the dictionary and discovered that “race” is…
- No longer in technical use.
- Described as an arbitrary classification.
- A socially constructed category.
“Ethnicities” might have been a more suitable word choice for your intended query.
Corrected to ethnicities. However it still is used in words like interracial. So it isn’t completely out of our lexicon.
Oh I didn’t meant to imply it has left our lexicon. I was just curious about it since so many people had things to say, and looked it up. You bring up a really fascinating point about “interracial”, though. If there’s a more appropriate alternative to that word, I’d like to know it.
Idk, but I’m sure that in at least 200 years genetical modifications will be accessible if everything goes fine. Probably it will apply to skin tone and facial features and there could be a strange variety of new colors or most people would pick whatever is considered ‘the best looking’ features in 300 years.
tbh the idea of having the choice of changing genetics sounds good, but it’s impossible to know what will happen in 300 years.
At least that is what I think possible in the next 300 years.If we can look like shrek, a not insignificant portion of the population would do so. I mean, who wouldn’t want to look like the ideal body type?
Shrek is love, Shrek is life, Shrek is high fashion.
