number of races in the world
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I believe there is one
per continent
In school they talked about four races: white, yellow, black and red.
I don´t know how many
there are but one is
superior…¡white!
Let´s investigate how many races
there are
And if one is superior to the
others
The answer are in the mitochondria
Mitochondria are minute structures described as the “powerhouse of the cell”
Chromosomes (DNA) are inherited from the mother and father
But mitochondrial DNA is only
inherited from the mother
The egg cell contains relatively few mitochondria, but it is these mitochondria that survive and divide to populate the cells of the adult organism, a pattern
known as maternal inheritance.
From mother
To daughter
To granddaughter…
From mother
To daughter
To granddaughter…
Mitochondria passMitochondria pass
“Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes”
IF WE REWIND THE HUMAN HISTORY MOVIE
We could go back generation to generation, until our origins
And we would get to the primary womb, the mother
of all human beings that inhabit this world
According to some theories, all female mitochondria are as if they were interlaced in a large umbilical cord & lead to Africa
Genetics theory postulates that Africa was the cradle of Humanity
150 thousand years ago in Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia
the first human beings went forward
There lived that woman.From her descended the 7 billion
that inhabit this world.
She wasn´t the first or only mother.But only she had daughterswho had daughterswho had daughterswho had daughters…who survived without interruptionuntil today.
About 70 thousand years agoa small clan emigrated from Africa.Some traveled west and made it to Europe.Others took the east road.Crossed Asia, climbed up the Siberian steppe… and made it to America.
About 70 thousand years agoa small clan emigrated from Africa.Some traveled west and made it to Europe.Others took the east road.Crossed Asia, climbed up the Siberian steppe… and made it to America.
Mitochondria help us track the route that the first humans took out of Africa to the rest of the world.
¡Wait a minute!According to this theory, if Africa
is the cradle Humanity…
¿Does that mean that Eve was
black?
¡Exactly! (Except
that there are other theories, especially the Bible.)
It´s better to say skin color.
Because there is only one race-
the human race
And then,¿Where do so many races come from?
Melanin is the pigment that gives color to the skin. In Africa, with so much sun, skin is dark for protection against ultraviolet rays that produce cancer.
When our ancestors traveled to cold climates
they began losing melanin in order to capture more of the sun´s rays that allowed them to produce vitamin D
Scientifically speaking a white is a
discolored negro
The difference between “human races” consist in a little more or a little less melanin
This doesn´t convince me
because in Canada and other cold
climate countries live people who are black and they don
´t discolor
The change in skin color does not happen in one generation, but across thousands of years.
Nature always works with patience.
My brother from another
mother
Skin colorhaircurly or straightnosesshort or longeyeselongated or roundare adaptationsof the human bodyto the different environmentsin which our ancestors have lived.
THERE AREN´T DIFFERENT RACES JUST DIFFERENT CLIMATES