Wait...Im evolving too we all are right?

Question

Well, im not white and not black but I have been living in Northern Minnesota for all my life. It comes to a thing about evolution how different people have different skin, whites live in the north, dark in the south, so ect...

My dad has tanned skin and so does my mother but shes has a little white skin. Every year or so I have been previous tan, but my skin is turning white. I have white skin all over my arms, and legs, toes.

So heres the question, Am I evolving and turning white skin?

btw I heard that white people that live in the south graduallly turn dark to adapt to the area.

Answer 1

evolution is a change in allele frequencies in POPULATIONS, and so individuals do not evolve

Answer 2

Though you are not evolving because to evolve there is a change between generations, you are adapting to your environment. You have whiter skin while in an area that you recieve less light on your skin. You body requires some light, but can be harmed by too much which is why you are whiter, and why people living in the south gradually look darker. The difference between your parents and you is something like evolution because their genes that combined to form you may have been better suited for where you live. Then again you could be the portion of the population destined to die or or never pass along your new genes and comtribute to evolution.

Answer 3

One person has the genes he is born with and doesn't get different genes during his lifetime. Evolution only tests whether each individual will survive long enough to reproduce and pass on the genes they have or if it will die without reproducing. No organisms change their genes during their lifetime to match the environment.

So, no, you are not evolving, and neither does any other living thing. Evolution is the accumulation of good variations.