Why Some Have 'Good Hair' and Others Don't . . .

Hello there, after watching the "Good Hair" produced by Chris Rock, I began to ask myself why, generally speaking, whites have 'good hair' and blacks have bad hair.

Before reading, I would like to state I am simply recapping some things I read online. This is NOT meant to offend anyone. If it does, I do apologize.

After doing some various readings this is some of the information I came up with.

-- Blacks: In Africa, due to geography and climate, people have darker skin, coarser hair, and wider noses. The reason people have darker skin is because darker skin protects people from the horrible sun. Additionally, because of the climate conditions, black hair was able to retain more water as it caused less sweating. Also, generally speaking, wider noses are more common among blacks because in African, wider noses allowed the people the breath better.

-- Whites: In Europe, again, due to geography and climate, people have lighter skin, straighter hair, and narrow noses. People have lighter skin because they live in a colder environment that is less affected by heat, than let's say, Africa. Because the sun is not as hot as African, European bodies have lighter, straighter hair because there is no need for reflection. (Remember, darker, coarser hair reflects the sun.) Lastly, European noses are smaller noses is to ensure that they can better protect the cold air being inhaled.

Basically, all of this deals with a process called 'Natural Selection.'

Natural selection is the process by which heritable traits that make it more likely for an organism to survive and successfully reproduce become more common in a population over successive generations. It is a key mechanism of evolution. (From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_selection)

Basically, your body chooses it's most important traits for future generations.

I find it fascinating that the way we are directly relates to the geography (with respect to the equator) and climate of our ancestors. Of course, we have all undergone various processes of 'natural selection' which explains why you may not have these generalized traits.

I hope you enjoyed.

All my best,

--André