(06-25-2021, 07:15 PM)BIAD Wrote:(06-25-2021, 06:37 PM)WonderCow Wrote: That hairy fella looks oddly familiar....
And with occidental eyes too. I'm surprised they arranged the rendering like that.
The epicanthal eye fold is a relatively recent mutation.
Quote:Scientists have found a gene that seems to account for most of the world's Asian-looking eyes. The gene is called EDAR, variant 370A. It arose about 30,000 years ago.
This gene variant does not appear to be linked to any populations in Africa such as the Khoisan of Southern Africa where the epicanthic eye fold also occurs. There is no connection with Down Syndrome or other genetic disorders.
In some people this gene variant produces only slightly Asian-looking eyes, while in others the intensity of the effect is much greater. This suggests that other genes are at work as well.
Besides epicanthic eye-folds, this gene variant also produces thicker hair shafts and straighter hair (hair shafts more circular in cross section), reduced beard and eyebrow thickness, reduced chin protrusion, changes in the slope of the forehead, upper lip thickness, ears (ear protrusion, lobe attachment, lobe size, helix rolling, folding of antihelix), increased incisor shoveling, smaller breasts, and increased eccrine (sweat) gland density, especially in the feet.
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