Counterbalance
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One thing I always wondered is why Chinese have slant eyes? It is as if they lived under a bright sun-light for many thousand years. Any ideas? Some say, they came on a spaceship???
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Been a while since I read this, but one theory involves the intensity of the light being reflected off of glaciers during a prolonged ice age, which caused early mongoloids to squint...perpetually, I suppose.
Supporting this was a story about how Eskimos came to fabricate slit "sunglasses" (out of bone/tusk ivory?) to cut the glare while out and about on the snow and ice.
Makes sense to me.
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One thing I always wondered is why Chinese have slant eyes? It is as if they lived under a bright sun-light for many thousand years. Any ideas? Some say, they came on a spaceship???
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Originally posted by Pkunk
im pretty sure thats to adapt to the light condiditions of northern china.
Indigeouns australian's have very "thick" brows which kinda act like sun shades
kinda the reverse of asian people
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Been a while since I read this, but one theory involves the intensity of the light being reflected off of glaciers during a prolonged ice age, which caused early mongoloids to squint...perpetually, I suppose.
Supporting this was a story about how Eskimos came to fabricate slit "sunglasses" (out of bone/tusk ivory?) to cut the glare while out and about on the snow and ice.
Makes sense to me.