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When albinos appeared they were discriminated and isolated of society as happens today in africa.
It is impossible that this story was not recorded at that time. In paintings or in the form of legend
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Great decision Tanzania.The hiring of an Albino minister will fight superstition and mutilation and discrimination against Albino in South Africa.
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In Niger-Congo speaking regions of Africa the Women whiten their entire bodies by applying lime before appearing at social and religious festivals.In Luba initiation ceremonies the face, arms and torso are whited with chalk.In Africa, white or pale flesh is considered a sign of beauty in females and there maybe deeper reasons.
In the wall paintings from Crete and Thera the men are depicted with red flesh and the women with white.
The women used makeup, ie white face paint or powder.The Egyptian women use lead carbonate (white substance) as makeup.East Asian countries and the British use a white powder as a face paint.
My wild speculation is the Black Priest probably selectively breeded the Albino race aka white race for religious reason.
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I usually avoid un-informative threads but the slc45A2 caught my attention. But even the African gorillas carry the white gene. Slective sweep in Africa:
A famous albino gorilla that lived for 40 years at the Barcelona Zoo got its white coloring by way of inbreeding, new research shows.
Snowflake was a male Western lowland gorilla. He was born in the wild and captured in 1966 by villagers in Equatorial Guinea. As the only known white gorilla in the world, Snowflake was a zoo celebrity until his death of skin cancer in 2003.
A few studies had attempted to get to the bottom of what caused Snowflake's color-free complexion, but the exact genetic mutation had never been found. Now, Spanish researchers have sequenced the gorilla's entire genome, revealing that Snowflake was probably the offspring of a pairing between an uncle and a niece. [Photos: Snowflake the Albino Gorilla]
Explaining albinism
In humans, four genetic mutations are known to cause albinism, a syndrome marked by a lack of skin, eye and hair pigment. People with albinism are at high risk for vision problems and skin cancers because of this missing pigment. [Album: Amazing Albino Animals]
Using frozen blood from Snowflake, researchers led by Tomas Marques-Bonet of the Institut de Biologia Evolutiva at the University of Pompeu Fabra sequenced the entire genome of the late ape. Comparing that sequence with those of humans and nonalbino gorillas, Marques-Bonet and his colleagues narrowed down the cause of Snowflake's albinism to a single gene, known as SLC45A2. Snowflake inherited a mutant form of this gene from both of his parents.
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