• FutileRecipe@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    To be fair, the Aiel didn’t initially grow up there (and too short for evolution, in my non-scientific brain), but rather migrated there to use it as “a shaping stone to make them, a testing ground to prove their worth, and a punishment for their sin.” And it would be too easy on those three reasons if they were perfectly (or mostly) acclimated and suited for the desert genetically.

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      5 months ago

      You’re right, and it’s only been a few thousand years. I’ll still complain to anyone who will listen. If I don’t complain how will you know I really enjoy the series?

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      IIRC, it takes around 100 generations to see a significant shift in skin pigmentation due to evolution. For humans, that would work out to about 1700 years for people that were moved from the Nordic regions to sub-Saharan Africa to develop dark skins (assuming that there were no other factors in play).

      Evolution can take what seems like a really long time.