HUMAN CAMOUFLAGE

CALEB GREGORY VOGEL

Present day thought regarding the evolutionary mechanisms responsible for producing skin color variation revolve around climatic differences in sun exposure. This proposed equation is thought to be intermediated by a chemical called melanin; said to be responsible for both sun protection and skin color variation.

This paradigm is vastly deprived of supporting evidence after it's evidence is carefully surveyed. For example, if where the sun is most pronounced their evolved darker skin; than let us examine the hottest region on earth: The Saharan Desert. The Saharan Desert is the worlds climax of harsh exposure to the sun. Greatly in contrast to this equation we find the natives of the Sahara have lighter skin than the eskimos of Greenland, Siberia and North America: The northernmost territories of native human inhabitance and consequentially the locations most scarce and void of sunlight.

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Chukchi Man, Chukchi Peninsula, Siberia Andrey Shapran

Like capellini cooked in hot soup the model falls apart at the first touch.

      In introducing a new paradigm explaining human appearance; let us begin in Europe. In Mid-Europe human appearance fluctuates annually in response to sunlight. During the winter when the majority of the landscape is covered in snow; the native population appears white. However during the season of summer in response to sunlight the population’s skin color responds by adding brown tones; complimenting the natural landscape which is dominantly a soil brown. Where snow tapers off in the south, especially in places of lower altitudes where their exists almost no snow such as Greece; we find people entirely a tan brown. Again distinctly matching the landscape of mostly soil.

Providing near perfect matches for landscapes with this new equation has proven to be seamless at ascension and delicate tapers. In order to better guide the reader let me first introduce to the equation the variable of human hair. Human hair is entirely akin to the stripes of a tiger or to a cheetah’s spots and stripes which provide camouflage to the natural landscape which is interspersed with natural shading or in some cases other naturally occurring elements of the landscape.

Cheetah, Masai Mara Kenya Steffen Foerster Photography / Shutterstock.com

A cheetah is a tall grass yellow. However to be a solid yellow would contrast greatly with the reality of the landscape which is interspersed with natural shade and would thus compromise it's position. We also find large patches of black around all of it's protruding features; such as the eyes, jaw line, nose, and mouth. Such are human eyelashes, beards and head hair. In Northern Europe where their exists large open planes of ice and snow and little vegetation to provide shade; we find a reversal. Where being entirely white would again compromise position and contrast to the natural landscape; we instead find a delicate portrayal of sunlight's reflection on an icy plane (blonde).

Mid-European hair is brown so as not to contrast with natural patches of soil and vegetation amongst a snowy landscape. And of course places in the Celtic Isles where famine and wither reside, the population responded with red hair to match a landscape interspersed with red withering leaves. In places of extreme darkness in the even farther north like Greenland, Siberia etc. we find eskimos whose appearance fades from light to dark.

Changes in the color of soil are largely responsible for the color variation in the rest of the world. As one scans the earth we find human appearance so meticulously adjoining the contours of the earth in perfect synchronicity.