why are the Australians are fairer in skin, where as geographical conditioned suggest otherwise ?
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Aborigines here 40, 000 years are dark brown.  People from Europe here only 200 years, are not yet very dark.
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Hey\ni'm not 100% postive but recently i read that australia is 2nd best when it comes to quality of living, just under sweden.\nI'm from oz and i have to say its awesome!\n-warm climate\n-lots of job opportunites esp labourers\n-low density of population ie not cramped together\n-very high ratio of women:men equality its like 0.92 or something (1 being completly equal)\n-nice, relaxed lifestyle\n-very muliticultural and accepting of others\n-great sense of mateship and friendliness\n\nSo yeh Australia rocks. :)\nhope that helps!
1009867
Australia, they have a mix of Croats and others.
369187
Geographic features can affect how and where the population live. Most of Australia live near the coast as the inner land is more inhospitable. (I generalise there)\n\nIt can affect the produce and industry. Is the land suitable for farming, is there water nearby, does it flood easily?\n\nThink of it this way - where would you like to live/work/play? What is it about that place that makes you choose it? Where would be the complete opposite?\n\nHope this helps.
402040
My guess of why darker people prefer hot climates and light people prefer cooler climates has to do with evolution and genetics.  Pigments have evolved according to exposure to the sun - the lesser intense sun,  the lighter the pigment.  The more exposure to sun and heat,  the darker the pigment.  Darker pigments tolerate more heat and exposure.  A light-skinned person would fry much sooner in a desert than a dark-skinned person.  (Although dark skin DOES burn).  I've studied very little biology and anthropology,  so,  don't know for sure.   Humans will evolve to being all about the same color in a few million years, anyway.  Don't worry about it.
619457
Australia ... Good peoples . Have more places to spend time with my honey.... Waiting for the day to go
966440
For many thousand years, tans were looked upon as "working class" and no respectful rich land holder would be seen with a tan.\n\nThen in the twentieth century, the rich and elite were able to lounge around in the sun in warm climates and when they came home to cold old Northern USA, everyone looked upon their tans as a status of success.\n\nHuman nature always tends to lean towards wanting what we do not have, so fair skinned people wish they had more color, dark skinned people wish they were lighter.  Curly haired woman, want straight hair, straight-haired woman, want curly.  The list goes on and on.  Human Nature.
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Scary Rabbit!\n\nThis happens to be the United States of America and for the moment what ability the common person may have towards freedom of speech is golden (even for you).\n\nJust because the Australians conduct themselves a certain way doesn't make them right ... it is just a reminder that what happened in South Africa is possibly just around the corner for Australians too.\n\nThe world, in general, is becoming homogenized (whether we like it or not) due in part to the Internet and our ability to communicate worldwide instantaneously.  Like it or not homogenization of the cultures and the various races will be the cause that will silence the lambs ... not Australia's way of life!
1177684
Excellent, they dont have prisoners from England like Australia, their lands are not polluted like Europe or the USA, their people are very simple in thought,but a strong literate society.Beautiful country and lots of lamb steaks!
680962
Australia is closer. So, wallaby.
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It's not just India. Central Australia has the same thing as well as many other places. Probably because those areas just didn't fit nicely in one or the other.
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It probably has to do with the climate.  It may be that the reason Northern Europeans and Northern Asians have thinner lips is because of their need to survive winters.  It's not only the Africans that have full lips but many other groups that live in warm climates like Mediterranean people or Southern Asians and even the Aborigines in Australia.  On a side note, I think that your question is a good one - I hadn't thought of it before and I am interested in why people look the way they do - it's interesting.
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Well, I believe Australia is the best place in the world, where you can get all the amenities of life...........and life style is greater than uk.......I real love oz...........simply it's best
665387
white people have less melanin in their skin to protect them from harmful UV rays so white people are more susceptible to sunburns which in turn wrinkles the skin faster, and white people have less collagen in their skin which allows for more elasticity of a persons skin.
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Its true that melanin controls the color of the skin, but I assume you are asking the entire genetic difference.  First, there is no definition in science for a black or white person, and even individuals would differ in what they consider dark enough to be black, or light enough to be white- But even assuming you had a definition, based on how dark a person is, there isnt any clear genetic difference.  In fact, people from Ethiopia and Somalia are more closely related to European caucasians then they are to west African tribes.  Extremely dark people from the Indian subcontinent are closely related to Europeans, and are genetically considered nearly identical-Native Australians are not very closely related (relatively speaking) to African blacks.  The skin color of a person is only one aspect of thousands of characteristics-it just happens to be one that we can easily see.  If you look at blood types, certain african groups are more closely related to Ethnic Slavs than the slavs are to other European groups (even though the slavs "look" like other Europeans)- this is only one example of many that have been found...what a person looks like appears to have very little to do with genetic relatedness.
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There must be some reason that region has slanted eyes.  Maybe the sun and wind makes it neccessary... Notice that Northern Europeans have slightly slanted eyes also, esp. Norwegians and Finnish.
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It has something to do with the area they live in. Body types are based on climate, landscape, food, and way of life.  Like Eskimo's for an extreme example, they are short and chubby because their diet consist of mostly fish and to be short and fat gives you a smaller body area to keep you warm.  Where as in Africa the natives are tall and skinny giving them longer body area to keep them cool in hot climates.  These are extreme examples but the same applies to European white people, but it is not as noticeable because American white people come from Europe, but our features have changed over time because of food, climate and living conditions.  It all boils down to where people originated and evolved from.