>>10913152This thread is full of leftists attempting to derail it, but the most likely answer at this point is probably sexual selection.
The vitamin D metabolism hypothesis doesn't explain the phenotypes (light skin, hair, eyes) well enough, since the underlying mutations are too recent and too widespread for that to have exerted enough natural selective pressure.
>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/03/new-diet-sexual-attraction-may-have-spurred-europeans-lighter-skinThe reason why this is "problematic" is that it suggest whites underwent heavy sexual selection, and suggests that, and not "colonialism/western beauty standards," is the reason why whites are perceived as the most beautiful race (on average).
