Study conducted on South Africans Colored and Bantu in the early 1900s

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QUANTITATIVE DATA ON SKIN PIGMENTATION IN SOUTH AFRICAN RACES
H. P. WASSERMAN ' AND

Several qualitative studies on skin pigmentation in South
African populations are available:' while the only published
quantitative data, those of Tobias: are concerned
mainly with genetic and anthropological problems.
Weiner et al.. '" in their study of South African populations only include data on the Cape Coloured as measured
in Cape Town, and on some South West African Bantu
and Bushmen populations.

A note was made of the eye colour in each individual.
As most investigators using an eye-colour chart finally
reduce their results to brown-black, intermediate and blue,
no attempt was made to match the eye colour with a
colour chart. Any eye colour that was not brown or blue
was classified as 'intermediate'.

The Bantu group consisted of 104 males of whom 99
were Xhosa, 3 Sotho and 2 of the Bubeka tribe

Note on Eye Colour
Eye colour has been studied by various workers. Our
results largely correspond to previously reported observations.
As far as White males are concerned, the study by
Van der Westhuysen' differs markedly from our findings,
which, however, agree closely with those of Grobbelaar'
and Skinner.' The females in this group have about the
same distribution of eye colour as the males.

In the Bantu, black and brown eyes occurred in all our
cases. Blue or intermediately coloured eyes do, in fact,
occur but are extremely rare.

Source:
http://archive.samj.org.za/1968%20VOL%20XLII%20Jan-Jun/Articles/02%20February/1.4%20QUANTITATIVE%20DATA%20ON%20SKIN%20PIGMENTATION%20IN%20SOUTH%20AFRICAN%20RACES.%20H.P.%20Wasserman%20and%20T.%20Heyl.pdf

Human skin color diversity is highest in sub-Saharan African populations.

Relethford JH.

Source

Department of Anthropology, State University of New York College at Oneonta, 13820, USA.

Abstract

Previous studies of genetic and craniometric traits have found higher levels of within-population diversity in sub-Saharan Africa compared to other geographic regions. This study examines regional differences in within-population diversity of human skin color. Published data on skin reflectance were collected for 98 male samples from eight geographic regions: sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, Europe, West Asia, Southwest Asia, South Asia, Australasia, and the New World. Regional differences in local within-population diversity were examined using two measures of variability: the sample variance and the sample coefficient of variation. For both measures, the average level of within-population diversity is higher in sub-Saharan Africa than in other geographic regions. This difference persists even after adjusting for a correlation between within-population diversity and distance from the equator. Though affected by natural selection, skin color variation shows the same pattern of higher African diversity as found with other traits.

Source:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11126724

Wowwwwwwwwwwwwwww, Africa is just soooooooo diverse.

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@ Texas.Cowgirl

Thanks for contributing.

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My cousin has very light almost hazel green eyes.
People think it's fake

Wow. Artic ice blue eyes.
Alright. Let me stop before I rhyme something...

^ :oThis wpman! If her hair white with those eyes....

KidStranglehold:

Eheh? Why the long face?

^I've see, this baby before.

really weird

Photoshizzzop

minus a few which are real

KidStranglehold:

^^real

i think

KidStranglehold:

"all non Africans are limited subsets of African diversity"

i disagree.

*Kails*:


"all non Africans are limited subsets of African diversity"

i disagree.

Most Eurasians only descend from a single African linage which is L3.

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^^^^

this little girl is HAITIAN.
and Haitians have A LARGE CREOLE COMMUNITY.

Creole = white + black + native American.

guaranteed she has the blood of the French/Spanish in her somewhere down the line.

^^^I didn't post her.

KidStranglehold:

Most Eurasians only descend from a single African linage which is L3.

EURASIANS being ppl of middle eastern descent right?

KidStranglehold: ^^^I didn't post her.

she was in the link

just like this mixed dominican

[img]http://2.bp..com/-2JxleSWH8zc/UBh3zBIfgKI/AAAAAAAAADI/vH3Q8n_zgc4/s640/denise_vasi_.jpg[/img]

*Kails*:


EURASIANS being ppl of middle eastern descent right?

Yes...But not only them, but Europeans, Asians, Pacific Islanders,etc. Almost all Eurasians only descent from the single African clade which is L3. The Ancestors of Eurasians is M and N, both descend from L3. Meanwhile some of the oldest clades in Africa are B and A which NO Eurasians descend from it and ONLY Africans like Hadza, Baka, Ethiopians, Bantu, Khoisans,etc.

Its not crazy that Africans are the most diverse human beings whether it be genetically or physically, because Africans are in fact the oldest humans.

*Kails*:


she was in the link

just like this mixed dominican

[img]http://2.bp..com/-2JxleSWH8zc/UBh3zBIfgKI/AAAAAAAAADI/vH3Q8n_zgc4/s640/denise_vasi_.jpg[/img]

I posted that link to show you non of the pics posted were photoshopped.

KidStranglehold:

Yes...But not only them, but Europeans, Asians, Pacific Islanders,etc. Almost all Eurasians only descent from the single African clade which is L3. The Ancestors of Eurasians is M and N, both descend from L3. Meanwhile some of the oldest clades in Africa are B and A which NO Eurasians descend from it and ONLY Africans like Hadza, Baka, Ethiopians, Bantu, Khoisans,etc.

Its not crazy that Africans are the most diverse human beings whether it be genetically or physically, because Africans are in fact the oldest humans.

ok

*Kails*:


ok

Yep