Why do Different People Have Different Skin Color?
How did we get all those skin colors? An evolutionary idea that the darker skin colors came from man being exposed to lots of sun, and each generation got darker and darker, has real problems. The Eskimo has fairly dark skin, yet he keeps his body covered with furs most of the time. How could the sun change his skin color? Could we get all the skin colors from just two people, Adam and Eve? If mankind began from just two people, then to get all the different colors that we see in people today, Adam and Eve would have had to be polka dotted! Or striped! Or checkered? Paisley? Camouflaged? No. To get all the kinds of skin color that we see, Adam and Eve would only had to have the right assortment of genes. (That is genes with a G … not the kind that your Mom and Dad buy from a store; those are jeans with a J … the kind you wear). Genes are small parts of your cell that are the pattern for what you look like. You get all your genes from your parents. You will have light or dark skin d
