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Why am I black?

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Skin color is genetic. Different skin tones have developed as a response to the climate where certain groups of people lived and evolved. Generally, darker skin is a response to hot climates and lighter skin to cold climates.

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Because your ancestors are decended from a region on the planet which is prone to large amounts of sunlight. This increased the level of melanine in their skin causing it to become darker as each sucessive generation was born over millions of years. This evolutionary trait is still in effect as the most recent ancestors (200-300 years ago) hailed from that same sun soaked region. Since little time has passed on a geological scale, those who decend from them will still have elevated levels of melanine in their skin. Over the next few dozen millenia though, dark skinned people living in colder climates with less sun will see their decendents skin color begin to lighten.

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