#human diversity

Soviet anthroplogical plates featuring ethnic Ukrainian people and their appearances from west/central Ukraine

People can talk to you in conversation all day and you think you all love the same things for the same reasons and all go "Yes, exactly!"

And then you try to create with that person and you realize their mind is completely alien to how yours works.

This is a GOOD thing, btw. I very much ENJOY when this happens, it's FASCINATING that you think like this, start from a totally different place than I do, think in a completely different way than me, and yet we end up in the same location shipping the same characters in the same way.

The faces of Aeta peoples. Photos by Ophelia Persson, from “DNA study reveals evidence for the presence of Islander Denisovans in the Philippines” (2021) by Larena Lab, Uppsala University.

Aeta is often used as an umbrella term referring to specific ethnic groups in the Philippines distinguished by their much darker complexions and often curly- to kinky-textured hair, such as the Batak of Palawan and Mamanwa of Mindanao. Due to their distinct physical appearances they are commonly misidentified as modern-day descendants of prehistoric Africans who managed to find their way to the Philippine archipelago in Southeast Asia. In reality, they are descended from the same major populations non-Aeta Filipinos are also descended from, i.e., First Sundaland People and later Austronesian migrants.

Human skin color ranges in variety from the darkest brown to the lightest hues. An individual's skin pigmentation is the result of genetics, being the product of both of the individual's biological parents' genetic makeup, and exposure to sun. In evolution, skin pigmentation in human beings evolved by a process of natural selection primarily to regulate the amount of ultraviolet radiation penetrating the skin, controlling its biochemical effects - Muehlenbein, Michael (2010). Human Evolutionary Biology. Cambridge University Press. pp. 192–213.