androbot01 wrote:
Meh ... this is a result of globalization. No going back now. In a hundred years we'll probably all be a yellowy-red colour and they will look back and wonder why people cared.
My guess is that a lot of future Americans are more likely to resemble Central Asian populations, with the exception of an additional African element. Central Asian populations have a lot of European genes, and quite a few have lighter hair color and/or blue or green eyes, in addition to East Asian and Middle Eastern genes. Due to the high prevalence of flaxen hair and blue eyes in North America, many multiracial children in the future are likely to have these traits.
Flaxen hair and blue eyes are recessive, but unless they are selected
against, they are not going to disappear. Generally, in the first generation of mixing, you won't see blonde hair and blue eyes due to the fact that the child will only have 1 copy of each set of genes (except maybe in childhood), but give it another generation and you'll see children who inherit both copies.
My guess is there will still be varying physical features and such, there isn't really anything to support that humans are all going to develop the exact same features. Also there are quite a lot of people who still end up reproducing with someone of similar ethnicity to them....I imagine it might be more common to see people of mixed ethnicity than it is now but I don't think all the differing features will go away.
29 Jul 2016, 5:14 pm
