Why is their hair so different?
And please no stupid racist comments
2006-10-01 04:45:16 · 11 answers · asked by revolutionman1379 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Caucasian races are adapted to live in areas where the sunlight is less intense and hours of daylight are shorter, their skin and hair tend to be paler and thinner to allow more light through which is amongst other things used in the production of vitamin D.
African races originating in a much sunnier part of the world have darker skin to reduce the amount of light penetrating the skin, their hair is generally thicker, darker and curlier which also protects against harmful amounts of radiation.
White races can have problems with sunburn, ageing of the skin and skin cancers when exposed to the African sun, inversely Black people can develop a vitamin D deficiency in more temperate climates, although as far as I am aware this isn't very common in modern times.
2006-10-01 05:08:51 · answer #1 · answered by mick.tripp 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
some carry out a little do not its because of version and you mean critical-West Africans the place their ancestors often got here from. pondering virtually all African individuals are a mixture of countless critical-West African ethnicities with a great share even having a non critical-West African admixture including ecu and North American there'll be adjustments. yet the two can seem same. Somalians are actually not Arabs nor are Ethiopians or Saharan & North-East African black populations, some are Afro Arab that's fairly arabanized (culturally) black Africans for hundreds of years like how Black individuals are individuals yet nonetheless black.
2016-10-15 09:56:12 · answer #2 · answered by hultman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a Black person, that is a hard question to answer because I have family with all different types of natural hair texture. Chop it up to genetics and adaption location origin. To the person with the weird science teacher who told you our hair is like rubber should be shot for saying such a rediculous thing.
2006-10-01 04:58:08 · answer #3 · answered by Simmy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because of the heat in Africa,it causes their hair to become coarse and short.Caucasian people needed longer hair to stay warm as we migrated north from Africa.It's called evolution.
2006-10-01 04:48:20 · answer #4 · answered by aries4272 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't know that but i do know that they also have different body hair and pubic hair, on someone of African origin its coarse all over, on Asian people, the hair in their head is coarse but their body hair and pubic hair is soft, and on Caucasian people its the opposite, soft hair on head and coarse on the body, that's all i know sorry.
2006-10-01 10:30:03 · answer #5 · answered by abbie g 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Africans generally have flat hair follicles making their hair curly
Caucasions generally have intermediate hair follicles making their hair wavy
Asians generally have straight hair follicles making their hair straight
but there are variations within each group
2006-10-01 04:49:22 · answer #6 · answered by angle_of_deat_69 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It's called Kertin, Blacks don't have a lot of kertin in the hair shaft.
2006-10-01 04:47:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i heard they have more of a human form of "rubber"... but that was from my crazy 9th grade science teacher...so take it with a grain of salt...and he was black also
2006-10-01 04:47:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
isnt it becauz of differrent race
2006-10-01 04:54:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
thats the way their genics are
2006-10-01 04:46:12 · answer #10 · answered by LilahFairy 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋