This document discusses the evolution of straight hair among early human populations. As humans migrated north out of Africa, those with less pigmented skin and straighter hair were more able to produce vitamin D and survived at higher rates. The evidence suggests that the need for vitamin D drove the transition from dark to light skin and the development of straighter hair, which allowed more UV light to penetrate the body. Straight hair may have evolved as an adaptation to allow greater vitamin D production in early northern populations.
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As perthe late single birthplace speculation,anatomicallycuttingedgepeople emergedinEastAfrica
roughly200,000 yearsback. At thatpoint,~150,000 yearsafterthe fact (i.e.around50,000 yearsback),
sub-gatheringsof thispopulace startedtoextendourspecies'reachtolocalesoutside of,and(later)
inside,thismainland(Tishkoff,1996).For those individualsfromthisgatheringwhomovedfarnorth(i.e.
to northernEurasia,and so on.),the UV lightof these districtswasexcessivelypowerless,makingit
impossible toinfiltrate the exceedinglypigmentedskinof the atfirst(generally)dull cleanedvagrantsin
orderto give enoughvitaminDto solidbone development.[46] Malformed bonesinthe pelviczone
were particularlydestructive forladiessince theymeddledwiththe effective conveyance of children,
promptingthe passingof boththe motherand the newbornchildamidwork.Subsequently,those with
lesspigmentedskinsurvived andhadkidsathigherrateson the groundsthat theirskinpermittedmore
UV lightforthe generationof vitaminD. Thus,the skinof those inthe gatheringthatleftthe African
mainlandandwentfarnorth progressivelycreatedadjustmentsformoderatelymore prominent
translucence contrastedwithcentral tints.Thisempoweredthe entryof more UV lightintothe bodyat
highscopes,encouragingthe commonhumanbody-procedure of assemblingvitaminD(whichiskeyfor
bone improvement) inlightof saidlight.
In thissense,the confirmationastothe developmentof straighthaircompositionappearstobolster
Jablonski'ssuggestions thatthe requirementforvitaminDsetoff the move fromdimto pale,
translucentskinamongcuttingedge people.Inparticular,the dispersionof thisqualityrecommends
that thisneedmayhave (at first) developedsoextremeatcertain(early) focusesthatthose amongsaid
(at firstall the more profoundlypigmentedcleaned) Northern-transientswithtransformationsfor
straighterhairsurvivedandhadkidsat (to some degree) higherrates.Thisearlychange insurface was
likelythereforetakenafterbythe aggregationof adaptivelyworthwhile hereditarychangesthat
promptedthe aforementionedskin-translucence.Thiscontentionismade inview of the rule that
straightstrandsbetterencourage the sectionof UV lightintothe bodyin respecttowavyhair. It is
substantiatedbyIyengar's(1998) discoveriesthatUV lightcan go throughstraighthumanhair rootsin a
waylike the waythat lightgoesthroughfiberoptictubes(Iyengar,1998).