Are there black people in the future?

[Huhuh]

And you think that the majority of the billions of people inhabiting Sirius, spend the majority of their time in space?

Well the ones that we happen to see in freelancer are almost always pilots. Space however is not the only place one can go to avoid sunlight. Just look at gamers.

The main point was your massive generalisation, but nevermind. As I said Calmodulin gave a pretty good explanation of the relevant parts. The main part being, why would it be an evolutionary advantage which increases your chances of producing fertile offspring to have paler skin at this "modern" day in age?

For example due to vitamin D deficiencies there are supplements you can take et cetra. But of course that doesn't matter as mankind is so advanced that people who are "inferior" in terms of fitness et cetra can still easily have a family and pass on their genes. Today even, there is extremely little selective pressure among people in the western world. Not that that is the case everywhere, for example looking at North Africa and the prevalence of Sickle-Cell Anaemia.

The lack of selection pressure in todays society is a key hypothesis in the increasing prevalence of many genetic orders and other conditions, such as allergies. People who would in the past been at a significant disadvantage now don't face the same problem and so are far more likely to have children and pass on their genes. In this way such disorders or undesirable characteristics are actually more likely to increase in the general population. Leading to a genetically less healthy population.

If your supply runs out, or you cannot afford your supplements, you have a problem. Not everyone in freelancer has access to top level healthcare.

This comes back to the OP on skin pigmentation, because even if it is less advantageous in the freelancer universe (which you've still not convinced me of) that in itself will not lead to it becoming any less prevalent.

I wouldn't consider it an advantage, except for maybe Malta, where slaves harvest cardamine (this being the exception regarding farming). I suppose the people of the hispania would maintain their darker complexion.

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