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Unpossible!! Those thousands upon thousands of portaits of white folks, continent wide and spanning centuries, of white folks are all clearly forgeries. It is known.![]()
For the curious:
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/04/how-europeans-evolved-white-skin
The modern humans who came out of Africa to originally settle Europe about 40,000 years are presumed to have had dark skin, which is advantageous in sunny latitudes. And the new data confirm that about 8500 years ago, early hunter-gatherers in Spain, Luxembourg, and Hungary also had darker skin: They lacked versions of two genes—SLC24A5 and SLC45A2—that lead to depigmentation and, therefore, pale skin in Europeans today.
But in the far north—where low light levels would favor pale skin—the team found a different picture in hunter-gatherers: Seven people from the 7700-year-old Motala archaeological site in southern Sweden had both light skin gene variants of SLC24A5 and SLC45A2. They also had a third gene, HERC2/OCA2, which causes blue eyes and may also contribute to light skin and blond hair. Thus ancient hunter-gatherers of the far north were already pale and blue-eyed, but those of central and southern Europe had darker skin.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/26595274/
The specified gene variants not mentioned in the article. Granted, they aren't the only determinants but if you're a European living today there's a greater than 99% chance your DNA has those genotypes.
White due to the geographic location, isolation and climatic environment where low light levels would favor paler skin? It's predominantly due to the SNP variations of the genes SLC45A2 [rs16891982 (G;G)] and SLC24A5 [rs1426654 (A;A)] that swept the continent to lead to the depigmentation of us little modern Euros.
The latter alone is a particular AIM of interest that accounts for up to 38% of the skin tone differences between modern Europeans and Sub-Saharan Africans.