I’m just a regular lay person that happened upon this….it’s SUPER interesting and particularly so because of how it’s presented…it’s extremely obvious that you, madam lecturer, are intensely excited about the subject and you make it clear, interesting and even entertaining to listen…thank you so much!
This’s why education is a must for humans. So much prejudices would just vanish if we were more educated. Only education can save us from ourselves. Beautiful lecture.
How then can we answer questions such as 'Why are there distinct Ethnic Majorities in most areas at most times?'.... Wokeness and Liberal Values must not be allowed to infect anthropology, history and hominid genetics as Racism is a major factor, if not the main factor. Self-segregation happens as much as forced segregation, historically.. Using academic subjects to preach Leftist drivel should be banned on brain-numbing, nasty political grounds. Your lots are pushing a Transhumanist Revolution from every angle, as a Natural Human Racist.
My science teacher showed her 3rd to 6th grade students many progressive ideas. After I learned about this skin color it led me to take on a personal philosophy of "We're all the same under our skin." Thank you for sharing your hard work.
This should be taught in all education systems.What a huge deconstruction of thinking and rethinking about skin color!Thank you so much for this lecture.
This woman is a brilliant teacher.I loved taking her tour through hominid history.I thought her treatment of Kant was quite fair and balanced.Evolutionary Biology really rocks when this lady sings!
Thank you! I’ve wanted to know this for 50 years. I’m of Norse heritage and have supplemented with Vit D for years during the dark half of the year and feel so much better. Just fascinating.
Even in an Australian sunny for almost 100% of the year climate, , many of us with lighter skins must supplement with Vit D. In my own situation where I have a light skin from a Scots heritage 5 generations back and very rarely properly use sunscreen ( laziness mostly) and do get daily sun exposure, and yet, test VitD low unless supplemented.
@@micheledix2616 I'm not sure you've understood the video. The problem to produce vitamin D is not the light skin. Light skin actually makes it easier to get as much vitamin D as possible because it is an adaptation to living in the north where there is not enough sunlight. It is exactly the lack of sun that causes the lack of vitamin D. Dark skinned people living in the north have a much bigger problem producing high levels of vitamin D than white skinned people because their skin colour is adapted to more sun. What really is dangerous though is, as you do, not to use sunscreen. There are high levels of skin cancer in Australians with white skin who don't use sun screen, so you should reconsider this habit however lazy you may be.
No we are not. I refuse to be labeled as such.. why would I want to be like you?? I see so many irresponsible obese individuals that refuse to take responsibility in the way they live. There are many cultures and societies that I will never be able to associate. No WE ARE NOT THE SAME.. it is not about education, it is a reality.
This is so fascinating!! As black people, my parents and I often expressed an inquisitiveness and had intense discussions about how and from where varieties of pigmentation were derived throughout human history around the globe. I love how Dr. Jablonski explains this complex phenomena in terms that any layperson can understand, and with so much enthusiasm and passion about her subject.
@Lee Kenyon I say that colour has no bearing on intelligence but access and drive for education is the answer. Your average European African or Asian living in poverty with little access to education and a drive for survival rather than intellectual betterment, which all are capable of, are in the same intellectual boat. Less poverty and more education is essential to lifting all peoples. It's not a colour differential its a wealth one.
@Lee Kenyon Yup social, environmental and economic politics. There is no empirical scientific evidence proven to show otherwise, race being a social construct, whereas, there is science and study to back up environment, lack of poverty and education. There is no difference theoretical or empirical. humans are not different. Race is a social construct not a biological one. Race exists because of conscious or unconscious bias inventing it.
@@JoeSexPack Admitted Joe. I posted hastily and therefore there was an error. Black race white race any colour race is the social construct. There is just the human race.
Yeah but other characteristics corelate with skin colour, probably due to corelated pressures - this she cannot acknowledge in an honest way. These additional pressures probably relate to those differences noticed (and admittedly exagerrated) by kant, hume etc, dating back to the ancient world.
There are environmental reasons for other characteristics we associate with race. You will not find the shorter and more rotund Inuits dominating the Ethiopians in the marathon at the Olympics. There are other characteristics of a physical nature including fast twitch to slow twitch muscle ratio differences. Thank you for your sincere question. We evolve to fit our environment and we do it in more ways than skin tone..@@pathfinderwellcare
It is sad that we still have people that will refute scientific analysis and cling to the Hume;Kant perspectives. Some people will always refuse to believe science and the statements this inteligent and compassionate lady has well verified. So, it is so very true, we must educate our small children about these facts, and the history of our "Founding fathers" needs to be told.. Thank you for the fine presentation and your continued work!!
Outstanding lecture. Professor Jablonski skillfully shows us that the science of evolutionary biology is education which works to unite . . . as opposed to divide humanity.
It's modern science- come up with a theory that is politically correct, then look for evidence to support it; as opposed to real science which is- gather facts and observe nature, then propose a theory. Her ideas are great, they make most people feel warm and fuzzy there's only one problem with what she's saying and that is...REALITY
Wonderful, knowledgable speaker. What I appreciated most is that all this knowledge was connected via the cooperation of different scientific disciplines, from anthropology, genetics to geography.
Masterfully explained. I have been interested in genetics, human adaptation abilities, skin color, etc. She is so good at transferring her knowledge of these topics. Great master class!
The lecture drifted from interesting science to clownish chiding and virtue signaling - admonishing us to make a perhaps dishonest change in society that can't work if there is, indeed, a difference; a difference now clouded by the radioactively-charged word "race" but that is, in fact, a difference that is simply "difference." Ignoring a real difference, if it exists, is dishonest and counterproductive and cannot lead to the solution of problems which have arisen from that difference. It must be addressed head on, whether doing so is politically correct or not. To preach otherwise is to be cowardly - at a moment in time that calls for bravery, lest we perpetuate injustice because we refuse to address a reality-based course of action. And if you can't even talk about it because someone's feelings might be hurt, or you will be shouted down, the solution will never be found.
Before listening, somebody tell me: Did she mention folks moving from Africa and spreading across the globe and acquiring differing physical features, succesibilities to diseases , skin colors, etc? PBS did a thing on that I the last few years of the 20th century and it was NEVER SHOWN AGAIN! THIS FROM A STATION THAT REPEATS EVERYTHING OVER AND OVER. I've often wondered why they never brought that show back. Was it because a scientist on the program came out and and said there is only one race;that the physical differences only represent the geographic areas we settled in.? If she emphasized what I just wrote, I can't wait to watch and listen. If not, she's dodging the truth like all those others , who unlike that scientist I brought up, are too scared to admit it!
@@Malvegil357 facts. However, there are a plethora of factors surrounding cranial separations of humans involving natural selection. What we call “races” are societal constructs and not grounded in scientifically proven facts.
Absolutely fantastic presentation. For sure the vitamin d issue is key. As a physicist I was taught that thermodynamics also is a factor. Light skin helps us radiate less heat in the cold north while dark skin helps people get rid of heat in the tropics (provided they aren't mad dogs and englishmen going out in the midday sun!)
I thought that the effect of how dark a body is is mainly in absorption of heat rather than the rate of radiation from that body. I.e. the radiation is a product of the temperature of the body. However the darker object will heat up faster in the glow of the Sun or a lamp etc.
Dr. Jablonski used the term thermoregulation to describe our ability to "remove/retain" heat. Skin color has little effect on heat loss, relative to predicate methods of relying on fur. Skin color's impact is there, but minor. Heat loss from fur-less skin is much more (orders more) than by skin color alone. So it's minor. And the Vit. D issue isn't key. Melanin & Vitamin-D production are "yin/yang" symbiotic - *_both_** are key* to survival.
@@KayAteChef The effects of colour on absorption and emission are exactly equal. Otherwise if you put a dark object next to a light one the light one would spontanously heat up and the dark one cool down. A very fundamental symmetry in thermodynamics!
Why-so they can spread more lies!! I couldn’t even make it 2 minutes. Evolution is a lie we did NOT come from monkeys or apes. Everything we have ever been taught has been a lie. Stop 🛑 believing their BS lies!!
What careers can our kids use this information in? The answer is none. We don't need to brainwash our kids with theories, when it's already hard enough to teach them to read and write and do basic math to balance their checkbooks.
@@BOLOforJESUStheTRIBULTIONear To my knowledge, nobody's ever made that claim; so you're free to stake a flag in it, if you feel that strongly about making sure people don't ever begin to believe that. But, back to the claim - of course we did not; to the best of my knowledge, nobody but the religious groups have claimed we come from monkeys and apes. Anyone with a mind and a moment of introspect can come to the conclusion that we did not; but that we are related, genetically, to the life on this planet. We did not come from bananas, either, but we share a genetic code outside of our own control. We are a part of the flow of life on this planet; it's our big, beautiful family of Earth.
This talk is such a gem, for its simple and clear explanations! Dr. Jablonski explains the science so well, making it fully engaging. She explains an area of our shared humanity, clearing the nonsensical ideas of race and racism. There's only one human race - and it's beautiful.
It’s rare for me to stick with a video due to attention span & (dis)interest level. Happy to say that this wonderful teacher had me hooked the whole way through and I learned so much! I’m grateful for this video.
I personally discovered Dr. Jablonski, not by accident, but by being curious on different lectures on TedTalk! I always had a deep interest on why are we here , and where did we all (or who) come from. Thank you so much for sharing this lecture. I did subscribe….
This lecture and lecturer is wonderful. My summary of this is that there is no one colour or pigment that is superior, rather that humans are superior is adapting to their environments and each "race" has been the best adaptation for the climate and geographical area of Earth in which they live. In this way, there is no difference between us, we are just humans being the best we can be. Thank you Dr Jablonski.
When I was young I made friends with people who had different skin colors. I really didn't know the difference. My parents didn't talk about people's skin colors and my dad worked with a lot of black and brown people. When I found out about prejudice I was astounded. I've never judged anybody by their skin color and it seemed so ridiculous to me. I always thought it had something to do with the sun but I wasn't sure. After hearing your talk I am much more sure of myself and my beliefs. And skin color has nothing to do with other physical characteristics, as you pointed out. That's why you can't say, "black people have kinky hair," or "black men have large penises," because there are just as many differences in blacks as in people of any other race.
@@johnallenismynameandmusici2796 Muslims don’t believe that humans and God look alike. In Islam, God is beyond comprehension, beyond anything in creation, and cannot be reduced to descriptions that human language require of beings, like having a body; furthermore, any use of this type of language in relation to God in Islam is metaphorical, again due to the limits of human language. As an example of an effect of a limitation in human language, in English I am forced to use S/He to refer to God, but in Arabic, God is gender neutral because the language is less limited in this respect ( re: expressing gender); this has resulted in English language culture and other European language cultures to conceptualize God as male (as the masculine form was predominant). So, what we have here is both language and theology working together to create a male, humanoid God. Just an FYI :)
@@jamies7899 You are correct. Language is very clumsy. I think of "God" as "It." Neither male or female. It is on a level of consciousness that is so far above ours that it is incomprehensible. I think It is in every rock, every human, every tree and is all-knowing. But we're not here to worship God, It doesn't need that. What It wants is for us to utilize all of our comprehension to fight for good because evil lies in the hearts of men. It did not create evil, we did.
Nina Jablonski is very passionate and knowledgeable on the subject of skin colour. Sun and UV rays can explain why we are darker in the equator areas and lighter in the northern regions. Thanks for sharing.
Dr. Jablonski, thank you for an interesting lecture. I thoroughly enjoyed your believable interpretation and explanation of evolutionary skin pigmentation and de-pigmentation. As a black man, I want to add that the United States system of government and 99% of the citizens have in my opinion removed all regulatory bias regarding skin color. It is up to the citizens to remove color bias in the minds of our children. God bless you and God bless the USA.
I was not impressed listening to the statement (56:00) that the slave trade had been going on for 250 years. The slave trade had been going on for thousands of years. It is the present obssession with 'white blaming' I call it. You don't need to do much digging to find out the truth about the slave trade in the 16th,17th, 18th and 19th centuries, to learn that in fact it was already an estblished 'business' in Africa and Arabia long before white Europeans even set foot on African soil. The Africn tribes that specialised in the trading of slaves were very happy to supply the new European customers with slaves and the demand was huge. Some African tribes did nothing else other than supply slaves to Europeans: The Portugese, the Spaniards, English, Dutch, French etc and later the demand coming from the newly conquered lands of the Americas. So the 'blame' for the slave trade should not just be targeted at the Europeans but all those that were involved in it, irrespective of skin colour and heritage.
Slaves have always been part of human existence and it’s still very prevalent today. People care less about the current slave trade then the past. It’s sad
Exactly . Arabs were trading slaves across the Indian ocean as far as China yet many prefer to ignore this and also how racially codified and structured the Arab /Ottoman slave trade was .. Different 'roles' for Black African and white slaves . African males castrated etc . There is a considerable amount of literature on all this (including Qu'ranic texts and Hadiths) yet academics like this professor seem strangely quiet when it comes to exploring the full picture . One can only guess why . Agendas are at work .
The media is keeping racism alive. The truth is, white people admire a tan and they admire naturally dark skin and big lips. So it is a hateful fallacy that white people hate people simply for being darker skinned.
@@JesusChrist5000 It is relatively simple to describe the evolution of skin color compared to the evolution of tribal cultures. Tribes, the fundamental organization of human groups, have always "hated" many other tribes. I venture to say it is an evolutionary trait as natural as skin color, a trait that in its positive is called tribalism.
@@lrayvick he’s talking about in the 21st century… humans are intelligent enough to know the fact that skin color is natural. Most of us are not racist aka, the media has an agenda to keep us divided…
martinez humans have not suddenly evolved the ability to minimize physical differences. It is a fundamental survival instinct to categorize those who are different than ourselves whether skin color, hair type, facial characteristics, sex, age, religion, etc.
Vedashi ram, I am in total agreement, as an Asian. This is an important lecture which should be shared as much as possible. Humans are one race. One people. Our African, Indian and Polynesian brothers and sisters are all melanin-rich people, with natural Vitamin D protection. It's a good sign of progress when we all can embrace our common brotherhood. Peace and love to us all, including our de-pigmented fellow humans also.
@@charleskennedy7951 I am dark skinned and so are many people South of India and maybe lesser people North of India. And we are not discriminated, except in the business of movies. So put a hold to your horses. Mixing caste and class that's a wonderful idea to demean us.
Thank you for your lecture! This is the best explanation of human pigmentation I’ve ever heard and must admit I had a faulty theory without understanding vitamin D connection. I’m so appreciative of this study and The education provided by The Leaky Foundation. I was aware early in my childhood of Dr. Louis Leaky and have continued to value the scientific awareness and continued research content published in various resources my entire life. I love this. ❤
I'm not debating the info etc. I'm strictly commenting on this woman's ability to clearly get across the presentation...as a former teacher I appreciate a well executed lesson..great job
@@vincentstackohare1082 -- Sure, she could have presented her basic thesis in 10 minutes, or even less, most likely. But she is also explaining the basis of it by providing examples. This is what any competent teacher does!
She presents scientific theory of evolutionary biology, history, social organization/constructs and human capacity, such as vision, to correct the fallacies of racism. Bravo. I hope her pathway is successful for educating children, who are our future.
Thank you so very much for such an engrossing topic. Years ago, after learning in biology that sunlight triggered the body to make Vitamin D and also having observed that people were lighter or darker depending on their proximity to the Equator, I theorized that the availability of the sun was directly responsible for the multitude of skin colors. I also concluded that some lighter toned peoples also re-gained the ability to process milk due to the lack of sun in northern climates. I would carefully explain my theory to people but, unfortunately, living in Texas my thoughts were shot down and claimed heretical. Your presentation has vindicated me.
I totally agree with you and I left a comment above. All this hatred and animosity because of the sun. It is not logical thinking. You know nothing about a person, whether he or she is good or bad or anything, but you automatically hate them because of their skin color? Texas was the last bastion of the Civil War and many white people moved there to escape the War. But Sam Houston was a great man and I don't know what his position on slavery was. I hope he didn't support slavery.
The fascinating parallel history of the development of lactase persistence among dairying people (including certain African cultural groups) also vindicates your point of view.
I agree, and I would add that in colder climates people tend to cover their skin, making it more difficult to absorb light. The exception are the Inuits, but they get a lot of vitamin D through their diet.
@@johnallenismynameandmusici2796 The topic of this video about skin color I believe is right. Racism and slavery however is much older I believe. Wars between tribes have probably existed long before white people and slavery came from the beaten people being taken as loot from the war. Also we keep forgetting that things where different back then. The rulers didn't think much of the common people. Just look at the millions of people being killed in WW1 and WW2. I believe in that we should allow every body to have a reasonably good standard of living but we must also allow some to get ahead because other wise we will never develop. If some body does some thing extra he must be rewarded. My experience from having worked in the Soviet Union in the 70's was that people wasn't very productive when working for the state. I was told that 5% of the land was still in private hands but 30% of the food was produced on these 5%
I learned more in one hour watching this than all my years in that complete failure known as public school, also as she said why isn't this being taught in school ???
@Beegee I know, I'm live in Florida😄, he[ DeSantis]thinks he's going to become president talking about WOKE at every news conference, that may work on Florida Man/Woman because they're a bunch of ignorant racists, but it's not going to fly nationally.
Oh the timing. I saw a Dr talking about Folic Acid for adults recently and as a person suffering with post Lyme and now long COVID I chose to start taking it. WOW! I have started rebuilding muscle structure! It's tiny, but I can tell in strength and endurance! And I'm turning 70 in Sept!
@leekenyon8705Because epigenetic (the environment, even yourself demonstarted with the ice age example) factors also affects phenotypes (in this case intelligence). I notice youve been typing the same message in many comments and at least try to articulate yourself in a scientific way so you should know better than believing the racial difference of intelligence is more than genetic, but instead epigenetic factors that are continuing to be at play in contemperary era in the form of accessing to education, economic status etc.
@leekenyon8705 first we are talking about within random distribution range of IQ, not mental retardation due to genetic diseases, therefore it is a multi-gene and environmental effect on the overall phenotype of IQ. Second the method of which IQ is tested has been shown to be biased in favour of western education. Theses two facts together demonstrates how wrong it is to assume inter-racial genetic difference as the main factor affecting IQ
It's likely Ms.Jablonski has a Doctorate. I have a sister whose a professor,and I can tell you,being of Polish heritage,am so proud of her. It's always so good to see 'ski' followed by 'PhD'. It's a sad fact that so many people never hold the racial falsehoods implanted since infancy under critical analysis. It was a long process for myself, which couldn't have happened without life experience,for me to come to an appreciation of how individual identity and heritage,in all its variety,is one of the most fascinating aspects of our human tribe. Anyone whose had a surprise insight hiding in their DNA test results knows that sudden illumination. We are our own greatest enigma.
If you think that we are predisposed to being a certain way by DNA that is scientific Calvinism and it's very much related to a mindset that spawned the NAZI party. Replacing fate with DNA programming does not represent freedom. Each human has potential we do have differences but we are not programmed to be superior. All that pride is often used to start wars and is no more scientific than any other prejudice.
John Christopher: *_ONLY_* to the point of the _specific_ science. The science has been in place for a number of decades and explains much about why we humans are different colors. That said, there is little "new" here; possibly better/more fully explained than previously. *_However---_* The near *pejorative lecture* (misplaced _anger_ can be seen quite plainly on the speaker's face on a number of occasions during said talk/lecture) should be _left out/deleted_ in entirety, including the disparaging attacks on Kant, Hume, et al.
Kinda takes me back to a field trip in grade school, seeing a sign on the bus stating that the seats were available to all "regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin". Ah, innocence; didn't understand the need, the meaning, or the history. But a couple of bullying incidents later, I did know _too well_ the face of hate. But not the why.
What a beautiful, evidence-based presentation. I watched in its entirety. As a recent MSW graduate, I appreciate this research from a scientific and social perspective. I’m definitely downloading.
This is my second time watching this this is so incredibly fascinating and makes me realize just what a genius Darwin is this is pure and simple evolution just like the finches
This is the most educational video I’ve seen! I’ve always thought the color of our skin had to do with where we lived. This video should be taught in schools everywhere. It’s wonderful information!
I periodically have to remind people that skin color is irrelevant, if you can interbreed it means you're the same. Though I have to admit that different skin tones can add an element of novelty. I'm an average pinky-beige Caucasian and my girlfriend is a wonderful light brown Hispanic. To me her skin tone is a delicious side benefit.
Fabulous. Both the information and its presentation. An absolute model for connecting the non-scientist with science. On a more personal note, my wife was born in the Orkney Islands and has typically Nordic pale skin and coppery hair. Even now, living only as far south as Edinburgh (the 56th parallel), she cannot expose her skin to our 'summer' sun. My children, barring my youngest daughter who has my more pigmented complexion which tans, are all fair-haired, while my eldest grandson has the full Scottish complement of red hair, pale skin and blue eyes. Thank you for making it all clear.
@Autumn Cast Apparently you missed the beginning of her talk. Human evolved from same line as chimpanzees and had fur. When creatures started becoming more human the legs lengthened so they could run instead of mostly hanging out in and around trees. Then there was less shade, so bare skin with more sweat glands kept them cool as they ran. Then that bare white skin was too vulnerable to sun damage so darker skins provided protection. Each step in those directions kept more alive to reproduce.
@Autumn Cast Are you crazy? Not all animal skin is white. Not all human skin is white. Northern areas need less UV protection and more vitamin D accessibility. Southern areas need more UV protection and have more D available. All shades are suited to their climate. Imagine if evolution happened as fast as modern travel. You could be dark and light in one day. JK.
Dear Prof. Jablonski: Wow! This was a most fascinating and enlightening presentation on the evolution of skin color. It's amazing how our different skin colors evolved as our bodies' adaptation to varied climates and levels of UV exposure. Also how originally skin color wasn't important as a value judgement until Hume and Kant came along and published their hubristic, prejudicial opinions that became the basis of hierarchal racism. We need to teach ALL of our children to celebrate and embrace their beautifully-diverse skin colors and to value their own intrinsic self worth. Thank you for your thought-provoking presentation. Sincerely, Jenny
That human skin color comes in a continuous range of shades is something that most people today understand, and in particular, most people in the U.S. But that wasn't always so. Just 60 years ago, most Americans could categorize anyone they were likely to meet as either black or white (with the occasional American Indian, who was neither, largely ignored). This made maintaining a system of racial segregation easy. In 1964, we passed the Civil Rights Act, to end racial discrimination. But it would not have been nearly as successful as it has been if it were not for another law passed the next year. I don't mean the Voting Rights Act, I mean the 1965 immigration law, which allowed people from many different parts of the world, most of whom were neither white nor black, to start immigrating to the U.S. People tend to overlook the importance of having this "rainbow" of skin color all around us. Well, Ray Charles did sing about it, but only after it was well established. It is almost never mentioned in discussions about race relations in this country. Perhaps it should be. Sorry for injecting this into a "scientific" discussion, but I just thought that needed saying.
I am a sociology major and graduated in 2014 and put these facts forward to a professor Emmertus, and the professor cautioned me not to explain skin color this way. I know it is true, but to respect my professor, I just let him speak. College is more concerned with separating by skin color and promoting Ethnicity of skin color and ignoring genetics completely.
And what “indoctrination” would prevent this from being taught today? I was a teacher until a few years ago and I taught this... not about the vitamin bit, that’s too new, but simply that melanin was an adaptation to UV light.
Where was your school Becky? I was in CT in the 70s. We did not learn about skin color reasons at all. I’m guessing different parts of the country focused on different curriculum. I’m interested in the indoctrination. That sounds interesting. Please tell us more.
@@dehartfamily3091 I was educated in a small town in central Illinois. I started in the late 60s and graduated in 78. Most of my teachers were very good at getting us to think for ourselves. And a huge part of that was to give us a little information about something and then having us go to the library and research for more. This information was the most basic lesson on evolution and the progression of man.
@@dehartfamily3091 what were you taught then? We were taught biology, advanced sciences, math, civics. We were taught phonics, chemistry, algebra, shop, geography, trig, algebra, foreign languages, basic finance and bookkeeping. We were given book reports, extra credit for in depth reports on curriculum studies. We talked about the Vietnam war, the moon landing, Nixon, advances in technology, our dreams, others' dreams and how we could attain them. We were taught addition, subtraction, multiplication and division basics before we were taught advanced methods to calculate. We were NOT allowed calculators and sometimes it would take several pages to calculate a chemical reaction. We were advanced individually in grade school by our own ability in each subject which was genius because some students caught on to one or two subjects with ease while had trouble understanding others. This way the teachers knew which subjects a student didn't need too much extra help with so they could concentrate on the subjects they did.
@@SimonWoodburyForget ummm I was in school BEFORE computers so books, periodicals and written research articles was all we had to do any research. And reading information and research is just as, if not way more, educational as electronic methods. Try it sometime. It makes one PATIENT and contiplative.
Dear Doctor Jablonski , here I am with some answer to some questions. It interested me that you included assumptions being made about appearance,. Yes, I have the Redhair Gene, and the pale skin associated with it. I took part in the Gene studies which were conducted by the University of Edinburgh. They did some tests regarding my skin's reaction to certain substances. One test was conducted into the efficacy of a Sunscreen meant to prevent me burning. It wasn't just carried out by giving me the cream to use if the Sun appeared. I thought I'd let you know, as it fascinates me and I'm sure you are aware of this study. You touched on something earlier, and I wanted you to continue. Yes, I have had to put up with remarks about my hair colour, as in having a bad temperament . I have found this part so hard to put up with throughout my life. I was 30 years old before I felt at ease with the colour, and, fell in love with it. My sisters and me all have Redhair, as do my three nieces . In the past, it's been quite a sight, when on Summer months we walked seven abreast during the Tourist season. Cameras snapped again and again. It's weird really, but it has similar links to the past. Thank you, I enjoyed your talk.
@@skippy6462 You may be thinking about the Moors who came from Southern Spain. And they travelled as far as Ireland. This, as far as I know isn't quite true, possibly an urban myth. The Moors fought and plundered a bit while they were there. Another tale is the one about the Spanish Armada being wrecked off the Coast of Ireland, which accounts for the jet black hair in Ireland, and as the Moors are supposed to have got there first, this accounts for the Red Hair. Then again, the largest amount of people in the world with Red hair is to be found in Scotland. One more thing, have you read about the village up in the Italian Alps where most of the people have Red hair, and embrace the Scottish side happily. It's very interesting,, and fascinating. There are lots of Red hair people in the North of Italy, not just in the village in the Alps. Great news that we Redheads all carry this gene, and that makes us unique too..
I lived in Alaska for 5 years, the kids were young. We ate a lot of king salmon. Every week, year around. Fresh, frozen and canned. Hubby would bring home huge king salmon. Lots of D in king salmon, a very fatty fish.
Thank you. Growing up in Brooklyn my best friend and next door neighbor was African American, and she is one of the people I loved the most in my life. I did know our skin was different colors but it seemed the same as hair or eyes to me. A blessed time of ignorance of what horrors happened to African Americans. I learned about slavery in school and I popped my head up from my book to see who else was shocked! Only one other girl who was brown toned. We met eyes, and tears fell.
Solid science, and an excellent way to use it - thanks Professor Jablonski! If this had been taught in all elementary schools when I was a boy (a long time ago) the world would be a different and better place today.
If elementary school is for youngsters, how many could understand or would they scrunch up paper and throw it at each other? Teacher, what is evolution?
@petefluffy7420 It's in the way you present the ideas. You don't use technical jargon, but easy to understand words for the children. I have taught and written training materials for 6th graders to engineers and astronauts. To me, being intelligent and knowledgeable about the topic means that I can explain it to most people at an appropriate and understandable level. Many professors cannot do that. They want the students to come up to their level instead of going down to theirs.
@@monicaluketich6913 The ideas in this video were not present in any form in my public school years. In my high school I was taught that humans are separated into four distinct races. The racial categories in my Health Class text book were the same as the races described by Kant. And that was in California, in the 1960s, in Indio, which was a segregated town - African Americans in Indio couldn't rent or buy a house outside of a subdivision called (and I'm not making this up) Nairobi Estates.
That we have shades of color shouldn’t be a surprising realization as it is so obvious. 🤦🏼♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏿♂️ Once we lost our hair we needed sun protection, that’s what melanin is all about. I am surprised that it sounds like a new breakthrough understanding when I already knew in school some 50 years ago that different skin color is just different sun protection.
Achim Wokeschtla; Have ever stop to think that this Video isnt just for you, There may be many people around the world who never knew this, try and check your arrogance.
Completely & respectfully disagree! No disrespect but that’s what you were taught to believe in this materialistic epoch. Melanin is MUCH more than skin colour! Melanin represents the HIGHER spiritual universal ORDER. EVERYTHING comes from darkness!! There are laws that governs the universe, one of those laws is the universal law of polarity (duality/law of opposites) look keenly & you will see this manifested all around you, even in the abstract, your mind is also a polarity. What this means in metaphysical terms is, black skin & white skin exists before environment (material world) because they are polar opposite of each other, just like; Hot & Cold Love & Hate Man & Woman Good & Evil Etc, etc.. Darkness & light are polar opposites of each other, darkness was before light, but light always existed in darkness until it was time to manifest in a particular epoch (a particular time of evolution or devolution). W-Man always existed in B-Man as a polarity metaphysically, until a particular epoch when he was going to be manifested because he’s the opposite, he came after (the omega) & would inevitably come without a high degree of melanin because he manifested for a particular reason as a polarity (OPPOSITE; different in nature, quality or significance. Completely opposed). Nothing happens in the universe without a reason everything is an expression of DIVINE CONSCIOUSNESS & serves a purpose for the end game of GROWTH (cultivation is the universal dynamic). MAN (humanity) is the universe in human form & the same laws regulate & govern him. As well he goes through cycles of regeneration & degeneration of consciousness of SELF & FORM. Seeing what you believe to be true, this is going to be hard for you to digest. Anyway, PEACE.
@@paul9156c: Because evolution doesn’t happen in a instant. If you moved to the African savanna and you and children, grandchildren etc. would stay there, over time and generations they would turn darker again or die out because of skin cancer … but with modern technology like sun tan lotion or vitamin D pills we prevent the necessity of evolutionary adaptation.
The conclusions she draws in regard to the non-existence of "races" can't really be drawn from pigmentation alone since evolution could and very likely have impacted much more than just level of pigmentation. It would be like me pointing to the fact both motorcycles and cars use rubber tires and run on gasoline and from this draw the conclusion they are both the same without considering the differences, such as 2 vs 4 wheels.
Well race is an arbitrary classification not based on biology but appearances alone. Population genetics do exist and that’s what evolutionary biologist use.
Great presentation. Thanks to Dr Jablonsky. I would have some comments or maybe doubts, but my main point after watching is, the fact that skin colour evolution is now explained; the idea of race as a social construction is also valid for anybody using skin colour as a valid discrimination tool, this includes black people and Latinos as well any other race. Apart from that, I want to keep the idea of race not as a discriminatory element but as a simple fact of some external traits with no moral value, thus saying that a person is black or white, or yellow, or purple does not mean that the person that says it is a racist one and mentions a valid, informative element, not a discriminatory one.
It's so frustrating looking at this world trying so hard to persuade people to not be racist. If people took a pause and sought to understand what humans are biologicaly we wouldn't have to waste so much time & effort to convince people to not be racist.
@Cat Magic Think you read my comment out of context Cat. I was replying to a since deleted racist post from user Blue dog .As for "right wing" I make Bernie Saunders look like James Woods ;)
In a perfect world you would be correct . But the majority of people don't even read . let alone indiscriminately search the internet for cogent ,informative discourse on important topics like this one.
Racism Is simply ignorance, intitlement, fear that self weakness will be discovered by others. Racist only know how to take and block others success. That's why they will never truly be happy even though they appear to "have it all"....They end up really having nothing and being nothing.
my parents were scientists and told me at age 4 how life evolved…and why lighter skin evolved further north for the need of D vitamin. this was exactly in 1963, along with other obvious known details of that time.
Life was created through intelligence; not through evolution. And once life was created it was given the ability to adapt to its environment. We were given the ability to evolve, hence microevolution
I believe in both God and Evolution, everything can be correlated with each other. I've never seen or been around anybody racist but grew up around Filipinos and native Americans, then when I was in the military I was in charge of a small group that all hated white people. I knew right away that I never grew up with their circumstances or perspectives so I never judge them for it. The natives in my town have their own school that I feel that by being closed off and taught about injustices against them and by those that have a chip on their shoulders so to speak keeps festering hatred. Anger towards other angry people doesn't fix the problem, kindness does and all the anger shown in the news and by high energy biased news anchors exacerbates the people's hatred towards what they don't understand.
Constant exaggeration about racism falsely woven into every topic is now being perpetuated by all media. This ignorant trend is actually dividing society and destroying democracy leading to socialism which is even worse because it suppresses everyone.
@@kingsleykronkk3925 Just how is it that socialism represses everything? How can offering better education, offering better affordable health care, affordable medications, paid parental leave, abortion on demand, support for people of different sexual persuasions rather than abuse and violence, providing public transport, libraries, better internet devices… how is any of this repressive? America is the wealthiest nation on the planet but neglects its citizens in an alarming fashion with devastating results at times. It can afford to be humane. In the last four years America has done a solid job of destroying democracy. It is embarrassing!
Ok challenge accepted. Here's one - If you believe in both then I assume you believe in some type of human spirit that lives past your death here? If that's the case you would either have to believe that all livings have a similar spirit that lives on as well or would need to explain when the human species was granted this spirit? This was a topic of conversation between Richard Dawkins and a Father George Coyne who could not explain it. Let's hear yours...
@@robertchflynn I am a great admirer of Richard Dawkins. I believe he considers belief in any God to be delusional. I have listened to countless interviews of him and am certain he feels exactly the same about souls and spirits. These are concepts that are unable to be proven, so those who do, do so on the basis of faith alone.
Wow, this has got to be the VERY BEST OF THE BEST in explaining skin colour, and the consequences of how ignorant men capitalised on their ignorance, and social standing.
What a wonderful life it would be if all the people of the world accepted that we are all the same regardless of our skin color, etc. wow that would be great.
Yeah that was a dream Martin Luther King had, but now racism means entitlement and reverse racism to many to repay all the wrongs of the past. So racism has become the color revolutionary disrupter to cause revolutions and the downfall of nations. All a part of Agenda 21 and the great reset. Which is a plan that is against "the human race" as there are to many humans on the earth. So the challenge of the future is not against racism but against those who are actually against the ALPHA species as being to many in population and want to cull the herd. Centralized control of all resources and revolutions, civil wars, epidemics, famine are all parts of the toolsets that Agenda 21 false color revolutions will promote to "save the world from global warming" or "climate change". The terms and lies will focus on dividing humans and self hatred of the "slave owners" or "humans being the owners of other things further down on the evolutionary chart". So the revolution we will see coming is a Green New Deal or BUILD BACK better revolution that will destroy the free world countries and then the communists will say enough destruction has happened. It will be encouraged to destroy the west. And every socialist revolution we see especially the ones in Africa ended in famine and death of many humans. But to the leaders of Agenda 21 and it's perverted offspring, failure is not an option but the goal. This is why the west must be destroyed, but of course the major western countries feed the rest of the world. So vast famines and plagues will be used. And this plan "you will own nothing but rent everything and be happy" per UN AGENDA 2030 website is a pure path to communism and centralized control that results in famine. And totalitarian and communism are both fine and dandy for the Agenda 21 elites. So the cause of fighting racism is just one of the tools in the toolbox of those who want to destroy humanity. I'm not for racism, I'm just saying the reparation game to pay those in the past for wrongs of the human race and the "industrial revolution" are false communist color revolutionary techniques to destroy the world and potentially depopulate the world by 2100 which is their long term goal. When you have to have most of the 11 billion people projected to being in the world this next century die, all means of death to the human race will be sold as some kind of solution. A final solution for sustainable earth but denying the nature of survival of the fittest being a fact in nature and the nature of energy work and energy loss both in physics and in nature. You can't progress when progress is some utopia primitive world in the past that never existed but is pushed out as a fantasy idea. But this is what Agenda 21 supposes.
@@firecatgreg I don't quite know what you are talking about and frankly don't care either. What I believe is that we must aim for the middle way with a safety net under all people but capitalism on top so that the best people generate wealth and prosperity. Eventually we will have to migrate out in space and cause trouble there too.
35:40 - shows info about a factor for why black women tend to have high mortality rates when giving birth. As a black woman, it's important to get information outside of the usual black media channels since they don't mention the effect of nutrition on our health. There's an unhealthy obsession with racism and it's literally killing us.
Brilliant. Ive been waiting for such a study for some time and will be saturating mysèlf into it again. How fortunate we are to be granted access into this research. Thank You.
This is not new research. This info has been known in the scientific community (taught in colleges) for decades. Dr. Jablonski's presentation summarizes decades of work, done by 100s of scientists in many scientific fields. Her presentation is for the public, because even today, many in the public do not know these obvious facts.
Wonderful video, thank you. I had watched Dr. John Campbell last year when he had mentioned this subject and it sparked my intrest. I ran across your lecture / video and immediately ordered your book and told my friends to watch. This should be taught in every school. Thank you so very much.
I learned today that Kant and Hume were the original while supremacists. I never learned this even in college-level philosophy classes. I very much appreciate this excellent lecture.
Hi Nina, I knew you were destined for greatness when we met at UWA many years ago, and it was a joy to visit you at the Academy of Social Sciences in Golden Gate Park. Best Wishes for 2022!
great....great....great!!!!!!thank you very very very much!!! i was wondering for years how to explain it especially to the children of the world. so beautiful to see this! i am very happy!
Great ape disparent, isolated distribution geographically and both their origins and evolutionary chain would potentially indicate that many species and subspecies of homminoids existed for far longer than any fossils that have been found.
This is a great lecture and should get our children to be aware of this. However, skin color bigotry will continue to persist if an economic disparity exists. Children of African descent must be given the opportunity to excel academically.
You tell that to a working class man or to a lesser extent work of a working class background.. It's not a skin color issue it's a cultural issue and class issue, further more academics themselves face the same bigotry you speak of even when they have been through the academic process and achieved highest grades they still struggle to be heard. It's nothing to do with colour of skin really its just just something people say now because they don't understand how or are unwilling to talk about how humans order themselves. The opportunity for African black im not you specifically say they should be given the opportunity as they are given the opportunity as are all other skin color people they simply don't engage with academics because of the cultural games that they partake in they value coolness and other things above everything else.
Through my work with LGBT refugees from middle east and Africa have almost all from minor to severe low levels of vitamin D. It amazes me that doctors still not do just a simple bloodtest. Just standard for people it saves a lot of trouble and money.
This may come across completely wrong - but I love Jablonski's face. Not sure how to describe it, but she somehow represents the entirety of humanity. She is totally undefinable in terms of race (if I cared about it). You can project into her face the modern homo sapiens features, the features of aboriginal peoples and even beyond, earlier forms of homo species. Again, I find this beatifully fascinating, so don't go crazy... I look at her and I can imagine a time long ago - a matriarch sitting at a hearth, teaching life lessons to the kids of a tribe in a large communal tent some 300 kya... Yet, at the same time, when you look at her from the side, you might as well be looking at Queen Elizabeth II... I love it! Obviously, I loved the lecture!
49:08 would be nice if that always the case but not so... Humans have used differences in physical appearance to discriminate between communities/keep them separate for thousands of years. The Sanskrit word 'Varna' used to denote difference classes of people in Hindu society, directly translates to skin 'color' or physical appearance. It was mentioned in the Vedas at least 2000 years ago.
I’m just a regular lay person that happened upon this….it’s SUPER interesting and particularly so because of how it’s presented…it’s extremely obvious that you, madam lecturer, are intensely excited about the subject and you make it clear, interesting and even entertaining to listen…thank you so much!
This’s why education is a must for humans. So much prejudices would just vanish if we were more educated. Only education can save us from ourselves. Beautiful lecture.
Tell that to the German educated when they were deeply involved in the holocaust.
Bravoo
How then can we answer questions such as 'Why are there distinct Ethnic Majorities in most areas at most times?'.... Wokeness and Liberal Values must not be allowed to infect anthropology, history and hominid genetics as Racism is a major factor, if not the main factor. Self-segregation happens as much as forced segregation, historically.. Using academic subjects to preach Leftist drivel should be banned on brain-numbing, nasty political grounds. Your lots are pushing a Transhumanist Revolution from every angle, as a Natural Human Racist.
Experience is the best school there is and if it gives rise to prejudices that serve to protect us, then it has been beneficial to us.
So many prejudices or so much predudice, plural -many, much - singular, youre welcome 😊
My science teacher showed her 3rd to 6th grade students many progressive ideas. After I learned about this skin color it led me to take on a personal philosophy of "We're all the same under our skin." Thank you for sharing your hard work.
That’s because you’re compassionate and reasonable! thank you for sharing!
Yes only cultural differences, which leads to a differing view, but those open can be receptive to that.
Even someone with limited science background,such as myself could follow and become engrossed in the topic. Superlative!
This should be taught in all education systems.What a huge deconstruction of thinking and rethinking about skin color!Thank you so much for this lecture.
This woman is a brilliant teacher.I loved taking her tour through hominid history.I thought her treatment of Kant was quite fair and balanced.Evolutionary Biology really rocks when this lady sings!
Thank you! I’ve wanted to know this for 50 years. I’m of Norse heritage and have supplemented with Vit D for years during the dark half of the year and feel so much better. Just fascinating.
Yeah for sure. I've been doing the same thing here in Ireland.
Even in an Australian sunny for almost 100% of the year climate, , many of us with lighter skins must supplement with Vit D. In my own situation where I have a light skin from a Scots heritage 5 generations back and very rarely properly use sunscreen ( laziness mostly) and do get daily sun exposure, and yet, test VitD low unless supplemented.
In the UK we call it SAD. Seasonal Affective Disorder. Basically meaning you feel crap in the winter.
Agree with commenters who agree this all should be taught in all the schools. We are all alike.
@@micheledix2616 I'm not sure you've understood the video. The problem to produce vitamin D is not the light skin. Light skin actually makes it easier to get as much vitamin D as possible because it is an adaptation to living in the north where there is not enough sunlight. It is exactly the lack of sun that causes the lack of vitamin D. Dark skinned people living in the north have a much bigger problem producing high levels of vitamin D than white skinned people because their skin colour is adapted to more sun. What really is dangerous though is, as you do, not to use sunscreen. There are high levels of skin cancer in Australians with white skin who don't use sun screen, so you should reconsider this habit however lazy you may be.
Awesome. This information should be required in all schools. We are more alike. Period.
No we are not. I refuse to be labeled as such.. why would I want to be like you?? I see so many irresponsible obese individuals that refuse to take responsibility in the way they live. There are many cultures and societies that I will never be able to associate. No WE ARE NOT THE SAME.. it is not about education, it is a reality.
Absolutely agree 💯%
100 percent. I'm a millennial black American male. we are all connected.
This is so fascinating!! As black people, my parents and I often expressed an inquisitiveness and had intense discussions about how and from where varieties of pigmentation were derived throughout human history around the globe. I love how Dr. Jablonski explains this complex phenomena in terms that any layperson can understand, and with so much enthusiasm and passion about her subject.
@Lee Kenyon I say that colour has no bearing on intelligence but access and drive for education is the answer. Your average European African or Asian living in poverty with little access to education and a drive for survival rather than intellectual betterment, which all are capable of, are in the same intellectual boat. Less poverty and more education is essential to lifting all peoples. It's not a colour differential its a wealth one.
@Lee Kenyon Yup social, environmental and economic politics. There is no empirical scientific evidence proven to show otherwise, race being a social construct, whereas, there is science and study to back up environment, lack of poverty and education. There is no difference theoretical or empirical. humans are not different. Race is a social construct not a biological one. Race exists because of conscious or unconscious bias inventing it.
@Lee Kenyon I disagree. I brought reason and science whereas you've brought nothing to the table to forward your argument.
@@Lostmissionary You're black & race is a social construct...really? Mutually exclusive statements.
@@JoeSexPack Admitted Joe. I posted hastily and therefore there was an error. Black race white race any colour race is the social construct. There is just the human race.
She went after Hume and Kant, and showed them for what they really were. What a profound presentation.
Yeah but other characteristics corelate with skin colour, probably due to corelated pressures - this she cannot acknowledge in an honest way. These additional pressures probably relate to those differences noticed (and admittedly exagerrated) by kant, hume etc, dating back to the ancient world.
@@alecmisra4964 Care to give a fact based example to support your thesis?
@@alecmisra4964 please provide examples of these "other characteristics". My request is sincere. I am trying to understand. Thank you.
There are environmental reasons for other characteristics we associate with race. You will not find the shorter and more rotund Inuits dominating the Ethiopians in the marathon at the Olympics. There are other characteristics of a physical nature including fast twitch to slow twitch muscle ratio differences.
Thank you for your sincere question. We evolve to fit our environment and we do it in more ways than skin tone..@@pathfinderwellcare
@@alecmisra4964 Did David Duke publish any of the work?
It is sad that we still have people that will refute scientific analysis and cling to the Hume;Kant perspectives. Some people will always refuse to believe science and the statements this inteligent and compassionate lady has well verified. So, it is so very true, we must educate our small children about these facts, and the history of our "Founding fathers" needs to be told.. Thank you for the fine presentation and your continued work!!
What a clear and interesting lecture. She is clear, and she backs it up with respectful research.
Outstanding lecture. Professor Jablonski skillfully shows us that the science of evolutionary biology is education which works to unite . . . as opposed to divide humanity.
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It's modern science- come up with a theory that is politically correct, then look for evidence to support it; as opposed to real science which is- gather facts and observe nature, then propose a theory. Her ideas are great, they make most people feel warm and fuzzy there's only one problem with what she's saying and that is...REALITY
You are who we needed to lecture us with this magnificent work. IM PROUD OF YOU. Thank you
The amazing Nina Jablonski. She is a true trailblazer and humanitarian in every sense.
Wonderful, knowledgable speaker. What I appreciated most is that all this knowledge was connected via the cooperation of different scientific disciplines, from anthropology, genetics to geography.
Masterfully explained. I have been interested in genetics, human adaptation abilities, skin color, etc. She is so good at transferring her knowledge of these topics. Great master class!
The lecture drifted from interesting science to clownish chiding and virtue signaling - admonishing us to make a perhaps dishonest change in society that can't work if there is, indeed, a difference; a difference now clouded by the radioactively-charged word "race" but that is, in fact, a difference that is simply "difference."
Ignoring a real difference, if it exists, is dishonest and counterproductive and cannot lead to the solution of problems which have arisen from that difference. It must be addressed head on, whether doing so is politically correct or not.
To preach otherwise is to be cowardly - at a moment in time that calls for bravery, lest we perpetuate injustice because we refuse to address a reality-based course of action. And if you can't even talk about it because someone's feelings might be hurt, or you will be shouted down, the solution will never be found.
Before listening, somebody tell me: Did she mention folks moving from Africa and spreading across the globe and acquiring differing physical features, succesibilities to diseases , skin colors, etc? PBS did a thing on that I the last few years of the 20th century and it was NEVER SHOWN AGAIN! THIS FROM A STATION THAT REPEATS EVERYTHING OVER AND OVER. I've often wondered why they never brought that show back. Was it because a scientist on the program came out and and said there is only one race;that the physical differences only represent the geographic areas we settled in.? If she emphasized what I just wrote, I can't wait to watch and listen. If not, she's dodging the truth like all those others , who unlike that scientist I brought up, are too scared to admit it!
Ancient Land Bridges account for the physical characteristics and cultural similarities between Native American cultures and Asian Cultures
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@@MrGsteele Right, so you’re going to keep searching for a reason-confirmation-of your inculcated biases. Got it.
Great lecture! This needs to be added to our children’s curriculum!
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hahaha! just to disorientate kids? or to ideologize them with her wokism?
The opposite of being woke is being asheep
Can't they tell the race of a skeleton based on the bone structure?
@@Malvegil357 facts. However, there are a plethora of factors surrounding cranial separations of humans involving natural selection. What we call “races” are societal constructs and not grounded in scientifically proven facts.
Absolutely fantastic presentation. For sure the vitamin d issue is key. As a physicist I was taught that thermodynamics also is a factor. Light skin helps us radiate less heat in the cold north while dark skin helps people get rid of heat in the tropics (provided they aren't mad dogs and englishmen going out in the midday sun!)
I thought that the effect of how dark a body is is mainly in absorption of heat rather than the rate of radiation from that body. I.e. the radiation is a product of the temperature of the body. However the darker object will heat up faster in the glow of the Sun or a lamp etc.
Dr. Jablonski used the term thermoregulation to describe our ability to "remove/retain" heat.
Skin color has little effect on heat loss, relative to predicate methods of relying on fur. Skin color's impact is there, but minor. Heat loss from fur-less skin is much more (orders more) than by skin color alone. So it's minor.
And the Vit. D issue isn't key. Melanin & Vitamin-D production are "yin/yang" symbiotic - *_both_** are key* to survival.
@@keep-ukraine-free Thanks for that. Clearly there are many factors involved.
@@KayAteChef The effects of colour on absorption and emission are exactly equal. Otherwise if you put a dark object next to a light one the light one would spontanously heat up and the dark one cool down. A very fundamental symmetry in thermodynamics!
@@BloobleBonker Interesting
Your logic ,your articulation , makes you an utterly engaging lecturer.I am captivated by your brilliant lecture .
Should be a required watch in all Jr. High or High schools in the USA.
Why-so they can spread more lies!! I couldn’t even make it 2 minutes. Evolution is a lie we did NOT come from monkeys or apes. Everything we have ever been taught has been a lie. Stop 🛑 believing their BS lies!!
What careers can our kids use this information in? The answer is none. We don't need to brainwash our kids with theories, when it's already hard enough to teach them to read and write and do basic math to balance their checkbooks.
Should we also teach public school kids about the IQ maps of native people's, which almost exactly matches the UVR maps?
@@BOLOforJESUStheTRIBULTIONear To my knowledge, nobody's ever made that claim; so you're free to stake a flag in it, if you feel that strongly about making sure people don't ever begin to believe that. But, back to the claim - of course we did not; to the best of my knowledge, nobody but the religious groups have claimed we come from monkeys and apes. Anyone with a mind and a moment of introspect can come to the conclusion that we did not; but that we are related, genetically, to the life on this planet. We did not come from bananas, either, but we share a genetic code outside of our own control. We are a part of the flow of life on this planet; it's our big, beautiful family of Earth.
DO A REPORT ON ALBINOS YOU WOULD ACTUALLY LEARN MORE!!! This is another cavemen-psuedo-science.
This talk is such a gem, for its simple and clear explanations!
Dr. Jablonski explains the science so well, making it fully engaging. She explains an area of our shared humanity, clearing the nonsensical ideas of race and racism. There's only one human race - and it's beautiful.
And we are all family...
It’s rare for me to stick with a video due to attention span & (dis)interest level. Happy to say that this wonderful teacher had me hooked the whole way through and I learned so much! I’m grateful for this video.
ACKNOWLEDGE ALBINOS OF ALL RACES. APPRECIATE THE DIFFERENCES OF THE DIFFERENT RACES.
Thank you for watching! So glad you enjoyed it!
Lol, me to.. I’m super interested but just never last long😂👍
As a former High School teacher I feel you and I chose what I would present very carefully for that very reason
I personally discovered Dr. Jablonski, not by accident, but by being curious on different lectures on TedTalk! I always had a deep interest on why are we here , and where did we all (or who) come from. Thank you so much for sharing this lecture. I did subscribe….
This lecture and lecturer is wonderful. My summary of this is that there is no one colour or pigment that is superior, rather that humans are superior is adapting to their environments and each "race" has been the best adaptation for the climate and geographical area of Earth in which they live. In this way, there is no difference between us, we are just humans being the best we can be. Thank you Dr Jablonski.
As a headshot photographer, skin tones are incredibly important, difficult to replicate and beautiful 😊
When I was young I made friends with people who had different skin colors. I really didn't know the difference. My parents didn't talk about people's skin colors and my dad worked with a lot of black and brown people. When I found out about prejudice I was astounded. I've never judged anybody by their skin color and it seemed so ridiculous to me. I always thought it had something to do with the sun but I wasn't sure. After hearing your talk I am much more sure of myself and my beliefs. And skin color has nothing to do with other physical characteristics, as you pointed out. That's why you can't say, "black people have kinky hair," or "black men have large penises," because there are just as many differences in blacks as in people of any other race.
A great and well needed lecture.
Wait not all humans evolved from "the monkeys" some are created in the image and likeness of Yahweh so we believe.
@@joannamupalouw5979 Well, nobody knows what God, Allah or Yahweh looks like so I guess that's a safe bet.
@@johnallenismynameandmusici2796 Muslims don’t believe that humans and God look alike. In Islam, God is beyond comprehension, beyond anything in creation, and cannot be reduced to descriptions that human language require of beings, like having a body; furthermore, any use of this type of language in relation to God in Islam is metaphorical, again due to the limits of human language.
As an example of an effect of a limitation in human language, in English I am forced to use S/He to refer to God, but in Arabic, God is gender neutral because the language is less limited in this respect ( re: expressing gender); this has resulted in English language culture and other European language cultures to conceptualize God as male (as the masculine form was predominant). So, what we have here is both language and theology working together to create a male, humanoid God.
Just an FYI :)
@@jamies7899 You are correct. Language is very clumsy. I think of "God" as "It." Neither male or female. It is on a level of consciousness that is so far above ours that it is incomprehensible. I think It is in every rock, every human, every tree and is all-knowing. But we're not here to worship God, It doesn't need that. What It wants is for us to utilize all of our comprehension to fight for good because evil lies in the hearts of men. It did not create evil, we did.
Should be taught worldwide. Riveting from start to finish. ❤
Nina Jablonski is very passionate and knowledgeable on the subject of skin colour.
Sun and UV rays can explain why we are darker in the equator areas and lighter in the northern regions.
Thanks for sharing.
Dr. Jablonski, thank you for an interesting lecture. I thoroughly enjoyed your believable interpretation and explanation of evolutionary skin pigmentation and de-pigmentation. As a black man, I want to add that the United States system of government and 99% of the citizens have in my opinion removed all regulatory bias regarding skin color. It is up to the citizens to remove color bias in the minds of our children. God bless you and God bless the USA.
I was not impressed listening to the statement (56:00) that the slave trade had been going on for 250 years. The slave trade had been going on for thousands of years. It is the present obssession with 'white blaming' I call it. You don't need to do much digging to find out the truth about the slave trade in the 16th,17th, 18th and 19th centuries, to learn that in fact it was already an estblished 'business' in Africa and Arabia long before white Europeans even set foot on African soil. The Africn tribes that specialised in the trading of slaves were very happy to supply the new European customers with slaves and the demand was huge. Some African tribes did nothing else other than supply slaves to Europeans: The Portugese, the Spaniards, English, Dutch, French etc and later the demand coming from the newly conquered lands of the Americas. So the 'blame' for the slave trade should not just be targeted at the Europeans but all those that were involved in it, irrespective of skin colour and heritage.
Slaves have always been part of human existence and it’s still very prevalent today. People care less about the current slave trade then the past. It’s sad
Exactly . Arabs were trading slaves across the Indian ocean as far as China yet many prefer to ignore this and also how racially codified and structured the Arab /Ottoman slave trade was .. Different 'roles' for Black African and white slaves . African males castrated etc . There is a considerable amount of literature on all this (including Qu'ranic texts and Hadiths) yet academics like this professor seem strangely quiet when it comes to exploring the full picture . One can only guess why . Agendas are at work .
Wonderful lessons, need to get rid of the ignorance in mankind hope that evolves
No im not ignorant of the lie of macro evolution
The media is keeping racism alive. The truth is, white people admire a tan and they admire naturally dark skin and big lips. So it is a hateful fallacy that white people hate people simply for being darker skinned.
@@JesusChrist5000 It is relatively simple to describe the evolution of skin color compared to the evolution of tribal cultures. Tribes, the fundamental organization of human groups, have always "hated" many other tribes. I venture to say it is an evolutionary trait as natural as skin color, a trait that in its positive is called tribalism.
@@lrayvick he’s talking about in the 21st century… humans are intelligent enough to know the fact that skin color is natural. Most of us are not racist aka, the media has an agenda to keep us divided…
martinez humans have not suddenly evolved the ability to minimize physical differences. It is a fundamental survival instinct to categorize those who are different than ourselves whether skin color, hair type, facial characteristics, sex, age, religion, etc.
I am from India. Tq for the excellent lecture. Wish more and more people watch it and absorb the message propagated by you.
Vedashi ram, I am in total agreement, as an Asian. This is an important lecture which should be shared as much as possible. Humans are one race. One people. Our African, Indian and Polynesian brothers and sisters are all melanin-rich people, with natural Vitamin D protection. It's a good sign of progress when we all can embrace our common brotherhood. Peace and love to us all, including our de-pigmented fellow humans also.
Vedashri Ram
Indian society discriminates against their dark skinned people and place them into Lower class castes.
@@charleskennedy7951 I am dark skinned and so are many people South of India and maybe lesser people North of India. And we are not discriminated, except in the business of movies. So put a hold to your horses.
Mixing caste and class that's a wonderful idea to demean us.
Forward it to Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump and his Family.
@@ytalchemy 🤣
This information is so important to biological science and explains so much.
This should be the standard in all schools.
Thank you for your lecture! This is the best explanation of human pigmentation I’ve ever heard and must admit I had a faulty theory without understanding vitamin D connection. I’m so appreciative of this study and The education provided by The Leaky Foundation. I was aware early in my childhood of Dr. Louis Leaky and have continued to value the scientific awareness and continued research content published in various resources my entire life. I love this. ❤
I'm not debating the info etc. I'm strictly commenting on this woman's ability to clearly get across the presentation...as a former teacher I appreciate a well executed lesson..great job
She could sum this up in about 10 seconds and let the poor audience get their lives back :)
@@vincentstackohare1082 -- Sure, she could have presented her basic thesis in 10 minutes, or even less, most likely. But she is also explaining the basis of it by providing examples. This is what any competent teacher does!
She presents scientific theory of evolutionary biology, history, social organization/constructs and human capacity, such as vision, to correct the fallacies of racism. Bravo. I hope her pathway is successful for educating children, who are our future.
Such a great speed and tone in her voice. I agree with you!
@@vincentstackohare1082 I enjoyed the entire lecture. I'm sorry you did not.
Thank you so very much for such an engrossing topic. Years ago, after learning in biology that sunlight triggered the body to make Vitamin D and also having observed that people were lighter or darker depending on their proximity to the Equator, I theorized that the availability of the sun was directly responsible for the multitude of skin colors. I also concluded that some lighter toned peoples also re-gained the ability to process milk due to the lack of sun in northern climates. I would carefully explain my theory to people but, unfortunately, living in Texas my thoughts were shot down and claimed heretical. Your presentation has vindicated me.
I totally agree with you and I left a comment above. All this hatred and animosity because of the sun. It is not logical thinking. You know nothing about a person, whether he or she is good or bad or anything, but you automatically hate them because of their skin color? Texas was the last bastion of the Civil War and many white people moved there to escape the War. But Sam Houston was a great man and I don't know what his position on slavery was. I hope he didn't support slavery.
The fascinating parallel history of the development of lactase persistence among dairying people (including certain African cultural groups) also vindicates your point of view.
I agree, and I would add that in colder climates people tend to cover their skin, making it more difficult to absorb light. The exception are the Inuits, but they get a lot of vitamin D through their diet.
@@johnallenismynameandmusici2796 The topic of this video about skin color I believe is right. Racism and slavery however is much older I believe. Wars between tribes have probably existed long before white people and slavery came from the beaten people being taken as loot from the war. Also we keep forgetting that things where different back then. The rulers didn't think much of the common people. Just look at the millions of people being killed in WW1 and WW2. I believe in that we should allow every body to have a reasonably good standard of living but we must also allow some to get ahead because other wise we will never develop. If some body does some thing extra he must be rewarded. My experience from having worked in the Soviet Union in the 70's was that people wasn't very productive when working for the state. I was told that 5% of the land was still in private hands but 30% of the food was produced on these 5%
ACKNOWLEDGE ALBINOS OF ALL RACES. APPRECIATE THE DIFFERENCES OF THE DIFFERENT RACES.
I learned more in one hour watching this than all my years in that complete failure known as public school, also as she said why isn't this being taught in school ???
The Florida governor surely would not allow it to be taught there.
@Beegee
I know, I'm live in Florida😄, he[ DeSantis]thinks he's going to become president talking about WOKE at every news conference, that may work on Florida Man/Woman because they're a bunch of ignorant racists, but it's not going to fly nationally.
Banning critical race theory is a step toward it. That's an ideology that seeks only to divide.
Oh the timing. I saw a Dr talking about Folic Acid for adults recently and as a person suffering with post Lyme and now long COVID I chose to start taking it. WOW! I have started rebuilding muscle structure! It's tiny, but I can tell in strength and endurance!
And I'm turning 70 in Sept!
History from her studies must be taught in all schools from all levels!!!!
Why?
It’s mostly lies ..
settle down, Beavis.
58:55 - The phrase “Incomplete data but lots of attitude” perfectly describes many of my family get-togethers - this ought to be on a T-shirt...
@Lee Kenyon "Why do people with different skin colors have such vast difference intelligence"
Why do racists tell this lie?
@leekenyon8705Because epigenetic (the environment, even yourself demonstarted with the ice age example) factors also affects phenotypes (in this case intelligence). I notice youve been typing the same message in many comments and at least try to articulate yourself in a scientific way so you should know better than believing the racial difference of intelligence is more than genetic, but instead epigenetic factors that are continuing to be at play in contemperary era in the form of accessing to education, economic status etc.
@leekenyon8705 first we are talking about within random distribution range of IQ, not mental retardation due to genetic diseases, therefore it is a multi-gene and environmental effect on the overall phenotype of IQ. Second the method of which IQ is tested has been shown to be biased in favour of western education.
Theses two facts together demonstrates how wrong it is to assume inter-racial genetic difference as the main factor affecting IQ
@leekenyon8705 youre wrong even on the level of genetics.
Beautiful presentation. Loved it. Should be school curriculum must in North America. Thank you for it.
It's likely Ms.Jablonski has a Doctorate. I have a sister whose a professor,and I can tell you,being of Polish heritage,am so proud of her. It's always so good to see 'ski' followed by 'PhD'. It's a sad fact that so many people never hold the racial falsehoods implanted since infancy under critical analysis. It was a long process for myself, which couldn't have happened without life experience,for me to come to an appreciation of how individual identity and heritage,in all its variety,is one of the most fascinating aspects of our human tribe. Anyone whose had a surprise insight hiding in their DNA test results knows that sudden illumination. We are our own greatest enigma.
If you think that we are predisposed to being a certain way by DNA that is scientific Calvinism and it's very much related to a mindset that spawned the NAZI party. Replacing fate with DNA programming does not represent freedom. Each human has potential we do have differences but we are not programmed to be superior. All that pride is often used to start wars and is no more scientific than any other prejudice.
Like this video? Its full of bs
Fascinating explanation of the reasons for the beautiful array of skin colors.
What an outstanding presentation/lecture! This should be required learning for elementary school social studies.
Agreed!
John Christopher: *_ONLY_* to the point of the _specific_ science. The science has been in place for a number of decades and explains much about why we humans are different colors. That said, there is little "new" here; possibly better/more fully explained than previously. *_However---_*
The near *pejorative lecture* (misplaced _anger_ can be seen quite plainly on the speaker's face on a number of occasions during said talk/lecture) should be _left out/deleted_ in entirety, including the disparaging attacks on Kant, Hume, et al.
Kinda takes me back to a field trip in grade school, seeing a sign on the bus stating that the seats were available to all "regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin". Ah, innocence; didn't understand the need, the meaning, or the history. But a couple of bullying incidents later, I did know _too well_ the face of hate. But not the why.
What a beautiful, evidence-based presentation. I watched in its entirety. As a recent MSW graduate, I appreciate this research from a scientific and social perspective. I’m definitely downloading.
This is my second time watching this this is so incredibly fascinating and makes me realize just what a genius Darwin is this is pure and simple evolution just like the finches
This is the most educational video I’ve seen! I’ve always thought the color of our skin had to do with where we lived. This video should be taught in schools everywhere. It’s wonderful information!
Congrats from Brazil , Dr Nina!!!! SUPERB TALKING !!!!
I periodically have to remind people that skin color is irrelevant, if you can interbreed it means you're the same. Though I have to admit that different skin tones can add an element of novelty. I'm an average pinky-beige Caucasian and my girlfriend is a wonderful light brown Hispanic. To me her skin tone is a delicious side benefit.
Very interesting talk. Dr. Jablonski has a very effective, enthusiastic way of speaking. Other science speakers would do well to adopt her style.
My father explained to me, when I was a child. Of course. This amazing explanation is very detailed, and transparent.
Just brilliant!thanks!
I was born 72 years ago in the crucible of mankind, The Rift Valley, in Kenya. Scottish parents.
What an enlightening Woman!
Thank God for this information. It should be in all schools.
Fabulous. Both the information and its presentation. An absolute model for connecting the non-scientist with science.
On a more personal note, my wife was born in the Orkney Islands and has typically Nordic pale skin and coppery hair. Even now, living only as far south as Edinburgh (the 56th parallel), she cannot expose her skin to our 'summer' sun. My children, barring my youngest daughter who has my more pigmented complexion which tans, are all fair-haired, while my eldest grandson has the full Scottish complement of red hair, pale skin and blue eyes.
Thank you for making it all clear.
Wonderful and very relevant work done by Dr. Jablonski and her team
Wow. This is an exquisite talk. She is so passionate about the topic such that one can't stop listening to this great story.
@Autumn Cast Apparently you missed the beginning of her talk. Human evolved from same line as chimpanzees and had fur. When creatures started becoming more human the legs lengthened so they could run instead of mostly hanging out in and around trees. Then there was less shade, so bare skin with more sweat glands kept them cool as they ran. Then that bare white skin was too vulnerable to sun damage so darker skins provided protection. Each step in those directions kept more alive to reproduce.
@Autumn Cast Are you crazy? Not all animal skin is white. Not all human skin is white. Northern areas need less UV protection and more vitamin D accessibility. Southern areas need more UV protection and have more D available. All shades are suited to their climate. Imagine if evolution happened as fast as modern travel. You could be dark and light in one day. JK.
Dear Prof. Jablonski: Wow! This was a most fascinating and enlightening presentation on the evolution of skin color. It's amazing how our different skin colors evolved as our bodies' adaptation to varied climates and levels of UV exposure. Also how originally skin color wasn't important as a value judgement until Hume and Kant came along and published their hubristic, prejudicial opinions that became the basis of hierarchal racism. We need to teach ALL of our children to celebrate and embrace their beautifully-diverse skin colors and to value their own intrinsic self worth. Thank you for your thought-provoking presentation. Sincerely, Jenny
That human skin color comes in a continuous range of shades is something that most people today understand, and in particular, most people in the U.S. But that wasn't always so. Just 60 years ago, most Americans could categorize anyone they were likely to meet as either black or white (with the occasional American Indian, who was neither, largely ignored). This made maintaining a system of racial segregation easy. In 1964, we passed the Civil Rights Act, to end racial discrimination. But it would not have been nearly as successful as it has been if it were not for another law passed the next year. I don't mean the Voting Rights Act, I mean the 1965 immigration law, which allowed people from many different parts of the world, most of whom were neither white nor black, to start immigrating to the U.S. People tend to overlook the importance of having this "rainbow" of skin color all around us. Well, Ray Charles did sing about it, but only after it was well established. It is almost never mentioned in discussions about race relations in this country. Perhaps it should be. Sorry for injecting this into a "scientific" discussion, but I just thought that needed saying.
She's an amazing lecturer.
God created all the races. And it was good .Not evolution.
What a beautiful and mind boggling information. Indeed, this needs to be taught not Only in schools, but in every home.
Thank you, Nina Jablonski, for such a wonderful, engaging, educational presentation.
I stand in awe of Ms Jablonski. We, the HUMAN race, are all one people, one kind.
I am a sociology major and graduated in 2014 and put these facts forward to a professor Emmertus, and the professor cautioned me not to explain skin color this way. I know it is true, but to respect my professor, I just let him speak. College is more concerned with separating by skin color and promoting Ethnicity of skin color and ignoring genetics completely.
Excellent presentation. Thanks. I learned quite a bit about the origin of racism, especially the roles of David Hume and Immanuel Kant.
Gosh. We were taught this in school when they were actually used for education and not indoctrination.
And what “indoctrination” would prevent this from being taught today? I was a teacher until a few years ago and I taught this... not about the vitamin bit, that’s too new, but simply that melanin was an adaptation to UV light.
Where was your school Becky? I was in CT in the 70s. We did not learn about skin color reasons at all. I’m guessing different parts of the country focused on different curriculum. I’m interested in the indoctrination. That sounds interesting. Please tell us more.
@@dehartfamily3091 I was educated in a small town in central Illinois. I started in the late 60s and graduated in 78. Most of my teachers were very good at getting us to think for ourselves. And a huge part of that was to give us a little information about something and then having us go to the library and research for more. This information was the most basic lesson on evolution and the progression of man.
@@dehartfamily3091 what were you taught then? We were taught biology, advanced sciences, math, civics. We were taught phonics, chemistry, algebra, shop, geography, trig, algebra, foreign languages, basic finance and bookkeeping. We were given book reports, extra credit for in depth reports on curriculum studies. We talked about the Vietnam war, the moon landing, Nixon, advances in technology, our dreams, others' dreams and how we could attain them. We were taught addition, subtraction, multiplication and division basics before we were taught advanced methods to calculate. We were NOT allowed calculators and sometimes it would take several pages to calculate a chemical reaction. We were advanced individually in grade school by our own ability in each subject which was genius because some students caught on to one or two subjects with ease while had trouble understanding others. This way the teachers knew which subjects a student didn't need too much extra help with so they could concentrate on the subjects they did.
@@SimonWoodburyForget ummm I was in school BEFORE computers so books, periodicals and written research articles was all we had to do any research. And reading information and research is just as, if not way more, educational as electronic methods. Try it sometime. It makes one PATIENT and contiplative.
Dear Doctor Jablonski , here I am with some answer to some questions. It interested me that you included assumptions being made about appearance,. Yes, I have the Redhair Gene, and the pale skin associated with it. I took part in the Gene studies which were conducted by the University of Edinburgh. They did some tests regarding my skin's reaction to certain substances. One test was conducted into the efficacy of a Sunscreen meant to prevent me burning. It wasn't just carried out by giving me the cream to use if the Sun appeared. I thought I'd let you know, as it fascinates me and I'm sure you are aware of this study. You touched on something earlier, and I wanted you to continue. Yes, I have had to put up with remarks about my hair colour, as in having a bad temperament . I have found this part so hard to put up with throughout my life. I was 30 years old before I felt at ease with the colour, and, fell in love with it. My sisters and me all have Redhair, as do my three nieces . In the past, it's been quite a sight, when on Summer months we walked seven abreast during the Tourist season. Cameras snapped again and again. It's weird really, but it has similar links to the past. Thank you, I enjoyed your talk.
I have always loved red hair. In fact I tend to mention that I love their hair colour when I meet someone with red hair.
Love that red hair! It’s in my family🤗
My auntie has red hair born in Ireland 🇮🇪 As children we were told the red came from Spain 🇪🇸 not sure what's true. Can you add to this? Fascinating.
@@skippy6462 You may be thinking about the Moors who came from Southern Spain. And they travelled as far as Ireland. This, as far as I know isn't quite true, possibly an urban myth. The Moors fought and plundered a bit while they were there. Another tale is the one about the Spanish Armada being wrecked off the Coast of Ireland, which accounts for the jet black hair in Ireland, and as the Moors are supposed to have got there first, this accounts for the Red Hair.
Then again, the largest amount of people in the world with Red hair is to be found in Scotland. One more thing, have you read about the village up in the Italian Alps where most of the people have Red hair, and embrace the Scottish side happily. It's very interesting,, and fascinating. There are lots of Red hair people in the North of Italy, not just in the village in the Alps. Great news that we Redheads all carry this gene, and that makes us unique too..
@@helencats1 Good for you I suppose.
I lived in Alaska for 5 years, the kids were young. We ate a lot of king salmon. Every week, year around. Fresh, frozen and canned. Hubby would bring home huge king salmon. Lots of D in king salmon, a very fatty fish.
Thank you. Growing up in Brooklyn my best friend and next door neighbor was African American, and she is one of the people I loved the most in my life. I did know our skin was different colors but it seemed the same as hair or eyes to me. A blessed time of ignorance of what horrors happened to African Americans. I learned about slavery in school and I popped my head up from my book to see who else was shocked! Only one other girl who was brown toned. We met eyes, and tears fell.
Wonderfully stated and easy for most to understand and I agree with you 100%😗 I am happy to have this GOLDEN nugget of information...thank you.
Solid science, and an excellent way to use it - thanks Professor Jablonski! If this had been taught in all elementary schools when I was a boy (a long time ago) the world would be a different and better place today.
The world is a better place than you think, its only places like the US that are obsessed with skin colour that is a problem.
If elementary school is for youngsters, how many could understand or would they scrunch up paper and throw it at each other?
Teacher, what is evolution?
@petefluffy7420 It's in the way you present the ideas. You don't use technical jargon, but easy to understand words for the children. I have taught and written training materials for 6th graders to engineers and astronauts. To me, being intelligent and knowledgeable about the topic means that I can explain it to most people at an appropriate and understandable level. Many professors cannot do that. They want the students to come up to their level instead of going down to theirs.
Science is observable, repeatable and measurable. Evolution is not science.
@@monicaluketich6913 The ideas in this video were not present in any form in my public school years. In my high school I was taught that humans are separated into four distinct races. The racial categories in my Health Class text book were the same as the races described by Kant. And that was in California, in the 1960s, in Indio, which was a segregated town - African Americans in Indio couldn't rent or buy a house outside of a subdivision called (and I'm not making this up) Nairobi Estates.
That we have shades of color shouldn’t be a surprising realization as it is so obvious.
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Once we lost our hair we needed sun protection, that’s what melanin is all about.
I am surprised that it sounds like a new breakthrough understanding when I already knew in school some 50 years ago that different skin color is just different sun protection.
Achim Wokeschtla; Have ever stop to think that this Video isnt just for you,
There may be many people around the world who never knew this, try and check your arrogance.
Completely & respectfully disagree! No disrespect but that’s what you were taught to believe in this materialistic epoch.
Melanin is MUCH more than skin colour! Melanin represents the HIGHER spiritual universal ORDER.
EVERYTHING comes from darkness!!
There are laws that governs the universe, one of those laws is the universal law of polarity (duality/law of opposites) look keenly & you will see this manifested all around you, even in the abstract, your mind is also a polarity.
What this means in metaphysical terms is, black skin & white skin exists before environment (material world) because they are polar opposite of each other, just like;
Hot & Cold
Love & Hate
Man & Woman
Good & Evil
Etc, etc..
Darkness & light are polar opposites of each other, darkness was before light, but light always existed in darkness until it was time to manifest in a particular epoch (a particular time of evolution or devolution).
W-Man always existed in B-Man as a polarity metaphysically, until a particular epoch when he was going to be manifested because he’s the opposite, he came after (the omega) & would inevitably come without a high degree of melanin because he manifested for a particular reason as a polarity (OPPOSITE; different in nature, quality or significance. Completely opposed).
Nothing happens in the universe without a reason everything is an expression of DIVINE CONSCIOUSNESS & serves a purpose for the end game of GROWTH (cultivation is the universal dynamic).
MAN (humanity) is the universe in human form & the same laws regulate & govern him. As well he goes through cycles of regeneration & degeneration of consciousness of SELF & FORM.
Seeing what you believe to be true, this is going to be hard for you to digest. Anyway, PEACE.
Ok, then why didn't I get darker as I progressively lost the hair on the top of my head as I aged? I like the theory though.
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Sorry, but that’s a lot of esoteric BS 🤦🏻♂️
@@paul9156c:
Because evolution doesn’t happen in a instant.
If you moved to the African savanna and you and children, grandchildren etc. would stay there, over time and generations they would turn darker again or die out because of skin cancer … but with modern technology like sun tan lotion or vitamin D pills we prevent the necessity of evolutionary adaptation.
The conclusions she draws in regard to the non-existence of "races" can't really be drawn from pigmentation alone since evolution could and very likely have impacted much more than just level of pigmentation. It would be like me pointing to the fact both motorcycles and cars use rubber tires and run on gasoline and from this draw the conclusion they are both the same without considering the differences, such as 2 vs 4 wheels.
Well race is an arbitrary classification not based on biology but appearances alone. Population genetics do exist and that’s what evolutionary biologist use.
Great presentation. Thanks to Dr Jablonsky. I would have some comments or maybe doubts, but my main point after watching is, the fact that skin colour evolution is now explained; the idea of race as a social construction is also valid for anybody using skin colour as a valid discrimination tool, this includes black people and Latinos as well any other race. Apart from that, I want to keep the idea of race not as a discriminatory element but as a simple fact of some external traits with no moral value, thus saying that a person is black or white, or yellow, or purple does not mean that the person that says it is a racist one and mentions a valid, informative element, not a discriminatory one.
It's so frustrating looking at this world trying so hard to persuade people to not be racist. If people took a pause and sought to understand what humans are biologicaly we wouldn't have to waste so much time & effort to convince people to not be racist.
@BLUE DOG You appear "triggard" mate. :)
@Cat Magic Think you read my comment out of context Cat. I was replying to a since deleted racist post from user Blue dog .As for "right wing" I make Bernie Saunders look like James Woods ;)
In a perfect world you would be correct . But the majority of people don't even read . let alone indiscriminately search the internet for cogent ,informative discourse on important topics like this one.
Racism Is simply ignorance, intitlement, fear that self weakness will be discovered by others. Racist only know how to take and block others success. That's why they will never truly be happy even though they appear to "have it all"....They end up really having nothing and being nothing.
There's agenda to there actions
my parents were scientists and told me at age 4 how life evolved…and why lighter skin evolved further north for the need of D vitamin. this was exactly in 1963, along with other obvious known details of that time.
Life was created through intelligence; not through evolution. And once life was created it was given the ability to adapt to its environment. We were given the ability to evolve, hence microevolution
@@TheRgordon16
Evolution and creationism are not mutually exclusive.
@@TheRgordon16 You're wrong about that and probably everything else.
@@JimBaltersource "trust me bro"
I believe in both God and Evolution, everything can be correlated with each other. I've never seen or been around anybody racist but grew up around Filipinos and native Americans, then when I was in the military I was in charge of a small group that all hated white people. I knew right away that I never grew up with their circumstances or perspectives so I never judge them for it. The natives in my town have their own school that I feel that by being closed off and taught about injustices against them and by those that have a chip on their shoulders so to speak keeps festering hatred. Anger towards other angry people doesn't fix the problem, kindness does and all the anger shown in the news and by high energy biased news anchors exacerbates the people's hatred towards what they don't understand.
Constant exaggeration about racism falsely woven into every topic is now being perpetuated by all media. This ignorant trend is actually dividing society and destroying democracy leading to socialism which is even worse because it suppresses everyone.
@@kingsleykronkk3925 right because the actual racism isnt the problem... Just as long as we don't talk about it everything will be "capitalist". 🙄
@@kingsleykronkk3925 Just how is it that socialism represses everything? How can offering better education, offering better affordable health care, affordable medications, paid parental leave, abortion on demand, support for people of different sexual persuasions rather than abuse and violence, providing public transport, libraries, better internet devices… how is any of this repressive? America is the wealthiest nation on the planet but neglects its citizens in an alarming fashion with devastating results at times. It can afford to be humane. In the last four years America has done a solid job of destroying democracy. It is embarrassing!
Ok challenge accepted. Here's one - If you believe in both then I assume you believe in some type of human spirit that lives past your death here? If that's the case you would either have to believe that all livings have a similar spirit that lives on as well or would need to explain when the human species was granted this spirit? This was a topic of conversation between Richard Dawkins and a Father George Coyne who could not explain it. Let's hear yours...
@@robertchflynn I am a great admirer of Richard Dawkins. I believe he considers belief in any God to be delusional. I have listened to countless interviews of him and am certain he feels exactly the same about souls and spirits. These are concepts that are unable to be proven, so those who do, do so on the basis of faith alone.
Wow, this has got to be the VERY BEST OF THE BEST in explaining skin colour, and the consequences of how ignorant men capitalised on their ignorance, and social standing.
The absolute best information we could have right now. Thanks!
What a wonderful life it would be if all the people of the world accepted that we are all the same regardless of our skin color, etc. wow that would be great.
Yeah that was a dream Martin Luther King had, but now racism means entitlement and reverse racism to many to repay all the wrongs of the past. So racism has become the color revolutionary disrupter to cause revolutions and the downfall of nations. All a part of Agenda 21 and the great reset. Which is a plan that is against "the human race" as there are to many humans on the earth. So the challenge of the future is not against racism but against those who are actually against the ALPHA species as being to many in population and want to cull the herd. Centralized control of all resources and revolutions, civil wars, epidemics, famine are all parts of the toolsets that Agenda 21 false color revolutions will promote to "save the world from global warming" or "climate change". The terms and lies will focus on dividing humans and self hatred of the "slave owners" or "humans being the owners of other things further down on the evolutionary chart". So the revolution we will see coming is a Green New Deal or BUILD BACK better revolution that will destroy the free world countries and then the communists will say enough destruction has happened. It will be encouraged to destroy the west. And every socialist revolution we see especially the ones in Africa ended in famine and death of many humans. But to the leaders of Agenda 21 and it's perverted offspring, failure is not an option but the goal. This is why the west must be destroyed, but of course the major western countries feed the rest of the world. So vast famines and plagues will be used. And this plan "you will own nothing but rent everything and be happy" per UN AGENDA 2030 website is a pure path to communism and centralized control that results in famine. And totalitarian and communism are both fine and dandy for the Agenda 21 elites. So the cause of fighting racism is just one of the tools in the toolbox of those who want to destroy humanity. I'm not for racism, I'm just saying the reparation game to pay those in the past for wrongs of the human race and the "industrial revolution" are false communist color revolutionary techniques to destroy the world and potentially depopulate the world by 2100 which is their long term goal. When you have to have most of the 11 billion people projected to being in the world this next century die, all means of death to the human race will be sold as some kind of solution. A final solution for sustainable earth but denying the nature of survival of the fittest being a fact in nature and the nature of energy work and energy loss both in physics and in nature. You can't progress when progress is some utopia primitive world in the past that never existed but is pushed out as a fantasy idea. But this is what Agenda 21 supposes.
@@firecatgreg I don't quite know what you are talking about and frankly don't care either. What I believe is that we must aim for the middle way with a safety net under all people but capitalism on top so that the best people generate wealth and prosperity. Eventually we will have to migrate out in space and cause trouble there too.
35:40 - shows info about a factor for why black women tend to have high mortality rates when giving birth.
As a black woman, it's important to get information outside of the usual black media channels since they don't mention the effect of nutrition on our health. There's an unhealthy obsession with racism and it's literally killing us.
That's all you heard?
@Reese Mentley nope
@Reese Mentley yuk yuk yuk?
Brilliant. Ive been waiting for such a study for some time and will be saturating mysèlf into it again. How fortunate we are to be granted access into this research.
Thank You.
This is not new research. This info has been known in the scientific community (taught in colleges) for decades.
Dr. Jablonski's presentation summarizes decades of work, done by 100s of scientists in many scientific fields.
Her presentation is for the public, because even today, many in the public do not know these obvious facts.
Wonderful video, thank you. I had watched Dr. John Campbell last year when he had mentioned this subject and it sparked my intrest. I ran across your lecture / video and immediately ordered your book and told my friends to watch. This should be taught in every school. Thank you so very much.
Finally, I get an answer to skin colour types. What an awesome lecture and great research.
This lady is just fabulous. How smart is she!.
Thank y’all for this wonderful work I’ll share it to all my friends and family
Wow. Loved this clear presentation and framing it in a connective way forward. Lets celebrate our diversity and harness its true strengths.
I learned today that Kant and Hume were the original while supremacists. I never learned this even in college-level philosophy classes. I very much appreciate this excellent lecture.
I was taught this in high school. Do they still teach this?
Hi Nina, I knew you were destined for greatness when we met at UWA many years ago, and it was a joy to visit you at the Academy of Social Sciences in Golden Gate Park. Best Wishes for 2022!
great....great....great!!!!!!thank you very very very much!!! i was wondering for years how to explain it especially to the children of the world. so beautiful to see this! i am very happy!
More people need to see this presentation.
This is information that should be taught from early learning thru higher education. This was very well done. Thank you!!
Great ape disparent, isolated distribution geographically and both their origins and evolutionary chain would potentially indicate that many species and subspecies of homminoids existed for far longer than any fossils that have been found.
This is a great lecture and should get our children to be aware of this. However, skin color bigotry will continue to persist if an economic disparity exists. Children of African descent must be given the opportunity to excel academically.
You tell that to a working class man or to a lesser extent work of a working class background.. It's not a skin color issue it's a cultural issue and class issue, further more academics themselves face the same bigotry you speak of even when they have been through the academic process and achieved highest grades they still struggle to be heard.
It's nothing to do with colour of skin really its just just something people say now because they don't understand how or are unwilling to talk about how humans order themselves. The opportunity for African black im not you specifically say they should be given the opportunity as they are given the opportunity as are all other skin color people they simply don't engage with academics because of the cultural games that they partake in they value coolness and other things above everything else.
We do not need to be given anything.
@@crenshawgrinder2515 apart from a kicking when your egocentric arrogance gets you trouble.
@@ThomasDoubting5 You are clueless, but entertaining 😆
Your attempt to inject Marxist ideology into this presentation is divisive and toxic.
Through my work with LGBT refugees from middle east and Africa have almost all from minor to severe low levels of vitamin D. It amazes me that doctors still not do just a simple bloodtest. Just standard for people it saves a lot of trouble and money.
This may come across completely wrong - but I love Jablonski's face. Not sure how to describe it, but she somehow represents the entirety of humanity. She is totally undefinable in terms of race (if I cared about it). You can project into her face the modern homo sapiens features, the features of aboriginal peoples and even beyond, earlier forms of homo species. Again, I find this beatifully fascinating, so don't go crazy... I look at her and I can imagine a time long ago - a matriarch sitting at a hearth, teaching life lessons to the kids of a tribe in a large communal tent some 300 kya... Yet, at the same time, when you look at her from the side, you might as well be looking at Queen Elizabeth II... I love it!
Obviously, I loved the lecture!
49:08 would be nice if that always the case but not so... Humans have used differences in physical appearance to discriminate between communities/keep them separate for thousands of years. The Sanskrit word 'Varna' used to denote difference classes of people in Hindu society, directly translates to skin 'color' or physical appearance. It was mentioned in the Vedas at least 2000 years ago.
thank you 4 your lecture a very beautiful presentation.