In a Few Years We Will All Look Brazilian

Science has stated that in the future we will all look Brazilian. No complaints.

I am sure it comes as no surprise to you that the longer time drags on, the more similar-looking we will all become. Right now we live in a time where people run the gamut from ebony to ivory, but with the mixing and blending of races, cultures, and continents it is only a matter of time before we all come out a pleasant shade of pale brown. In the past, there was a lot less movement and travel. People were born and died in the same place, so it’s not strange to imagine that the populations of different locations developed and shared distinct characteristics. These generations kept breeding, and what we ended up with was a world full of different races with widely varied features.

“Globalization, immigration, cultural diffusion and the ease of modern travel will gradually homogenize the human population, averaging out more and more people’s traits. Because recessive traits depend on two copies of the same gene pairing up in order to get expressed, these traits will express themselves more rarely, and dominant traits will become the norm. In short, blue skin is out. Brown skin is in,” explains Stephen Stearns, a Yale professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.

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In the US alone, certain recessive traits like blue eyes have grown less common, and according to a 2002 study by epidemiologists Mark Grant and Diane Lauderdale, only 1 in 6 non-Hispanic white Americans has blue eyes, which is half of what it was 100 years ago.

So basically this means that the genetic mixing of different races across the world is eventually going to lead to use looking like Brazilian people. If you have ever seen a Brazilian person however, you are probably not complaining.

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