Stormblood
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Shadowcat said:
I don't really trust DNA technology nowadays. My opinion is that it can be loaded with loads of nonsense, just like many European will be made to Ashkenazi blood when they don't. I don't why they could not make up lies about the DNA of certain ancient populations... on purpose to confuse people. Berbers are not even that ancient of a population. They are post-diluvian and from way after the Golden Age of Ancient Egypt.
I think we should agree on definitions first, as there is mismatch between what the website considers brown and what I and you consider brown.
Brown for me is according to the Fitzpatrick scale here. Type V. While that website seems to have light brown at III, medium brown at IV and dark brown at V.
Fair for me is type II on the scale, while type I is pale, type III is medium and starts being tan in some ways, and type IV is olive.
What is fair for you according to the scale? What is brown for you according to the scale? You can also use the Von Luschan numbers if you prefer. In that case, for me we have:
Pale: 1-11
Fair: 12-14
Medium: 15-18
Tan/Olive: 19-26
Brown: 27-34
Black: 35-36
Skin is not the only variable. If anything, it's not even the main variable. There are people born from a pale White and a Black man whose skin is pale, with freckles, red hair and fair eyes, yet their bone structure and the rest of their somatic traits tell you they are almost exclusively black.
Ancient Romans and Ancient Greek were also not "medwhite" from what I know: they were mostly pale and fair Whites up until the mixing started. Brown and black hair come from Genghis Khan raping Eastern Europe, and from mixes with black/brown people in the South. They did not exist in Whites before that, just like body hair only existed on armpits, forearms, legs and pubes before the widespread mixing and spiritual degeneration. After the decline of Ancient Egypt, Northern Africa was already mixed to a great degree. I don't know if the mix was stable already or not. Further mixing between Northern Africans at that point and Southern Europeans gave rise to the Mediterranid subrace, which is basically medium and tan/olive Whites. Most fair and pale Whites are unable to tan by nature, contrary to popular beliefs that Southern Europeans are Nordic people with a tan. Many, however, in lieu of climatic changes, have adapted to tan over generations. Most of them still don't live in Southern Europe and don't look like Mediterranid people at all. Mutations and devolution (just like evolution) bring a lot of changes compared to the original prototypes the Gods created.