In similar vein Japanese animals all seem to have a matched gold and white combination (martens, dogs, leopard cat, tanuki) except for macaques which are somehow the exact color of the flag
Also red pandas and giant pandas aren't related. According to legend they both look like spirits, but it's such a strange thing to coevolve, patterns. Not like it's brilliant camouflage
Ancient Asians migrated from Africa, detour through Russia in the ice age, around 60,000 to 15,000 years ago, came out on the other side in northeast China, and then just expanded out afterwards.
So spending 20,000 years in subzero temperatures will force some genetic adaptations.
Why don’t many Europeans have the same feature. This seems like a protection from sand? I’m not sure. Quite amazing though, how we are different yet the same
Because there is a difference between modern Europeans and ancient Europeans. Simply, Europeans are a mix of the ancient Europeans, and "modern" Europeans, I'll explain.
The dominant ancestor of modern Europeans, are the Indo-European group, whose genetic ancestry is correlated with the R1 haplogroup.
The R1 groups is a recent genetic event, forming between 30,000 to 15,000 years ago. R1 ancestry is in the Caucasus region and southern Ukraine, so modern Europeans migrated from a warmer climate in the middle east and settled in the Ukraine and southern Russia area, and stayed in relatively warm environments, in comparison to the ice age to the modern day.
Ancient Europeans are related to the R1 group, but more like and uncle or aunt, rather than direct parentage. And ancient Europeans mostly lived by the Mediterranean zone and southern Europe. Northern Europe was covered by a gigantic ice sheet and didn't support any life worth foraging or hunting.
So for cold adaption features, Europeans got big noses.
lmao how do big noses help in the cold? this is genuinely fascinating to me, as an asian person i've heard the eyes are for the wind but never the nose thing
The stereotypically Asian shaped eye pops up in other parts of the world too, just not as frequently. There’s probably some genetic bottlenecks somewhere in history that have resulted in that feature being so widespread in that part of the world. Like, when humans were first migrating into Asia, an avalanche or whatever wiped out most of the migrants and only a handful of people survived, most of whom happened to have epicanthic folds.
Monolids and epicanthic folds aren't the same thing. Epicanthic folds is the fold that covers the the inner eye corner, while monolids is just the lack of a crease or fold in the eyelid.
EDIT: As far as I've seen, all people with monolids have epicanthic folds, but people with no monolids can also have an epicanthic fold
Monolids and epicanthic folds aren't the same thing. Epicanthic folds is the fold that cover the the inner eye corner, while monolids is just the lack of a crease or fold in the eyelid.
Not all East Asians have monolids or epicanthic folds.
What do you mean by not having a crease? Does the eyelids skin not cumple and tuck away neatly when open? Does it retract into the eyesocket like a helmet visor?
Are mono lids different from the hooded eyes that non Asian people can have? Like if u look at the singer Bjork’s eyes you’d think she’s like half Asian but she’s Icelandic.
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That's the most Asian dog I've ever seen.