User talk:Afiya27

May 2008
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Learn how wikipedia editing works by starting smaller... Dicklyon (talk) 06:56, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Hair edits
Welcome again to Wikipedia. It's great to have experts around; the natural hair article was lacking in scientific background before. As you edit, it may help to study some featured articles, such as influenza, to see how they handle scientific writing and citations. There are tons of rules and guidelines for Wikipedia articles, some of which you just have to pick up as you go along. You might also want to check out Writing better articles -- it would have been helpful to me as a new editor. Dreamyshade (talk) 14:37, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi again! Your recent work looks pretty good to me, but you might want to keep in mind that saving every few minutes kind of clutters up the revision history -- see the history of Natural afro-hair for an example. When you're making small changes, it's better to hit "show preview" and then make more changes based on the results, rather than saving the page each time (there's more about this at Help:Show preview). That isn't a huge deal, but it's just another Wikipedia custom. Also, try to type in an "edit summary" when saving a page (Help:Edit summary); this helps other editors figure out what you're doing at a glance. Dreamyshade (talk) 21:08, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

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Click on Owen 'Alik Shahadah and you'll see where all my objections are coming from. ;) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wufei05 (talk • contribs) 17:57, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Chimps
It's the middle o' the night and I'm not fully awake but I just wanted to prove I'm not making this up: On the bonobo article you can see a variety of skin colors: light and dark. (Note: am I seeing that right? The dark chimp seems to have no hair at all on the front of its body ... or is it just really fine hair? In either case, its exposed skin is much darker than the other chimp.)  Those were both bonobos; I'm not sure if chimps proper exhibit the same variation. Soap Talk/Contributions 04:46, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Responded
...on my talk page. DS (talk) 14:42, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

afro hair
Dear Afiyah, unlike with genetic data corroberating the theorized heavily melanated ancestral state for modern mankind, the same can't be said for tightly curled hair. No studies document how tightly curled anyone's hair was other than in the present day, not to mention the variation or intermediate types of hair. Further, very hairy populations with very tightly curled (afro puff) hair only have curly to afro hair in places where heat expultion counts like the head and armpits for examples. Other areas having hair have been measured at wavy to straight. In the article, there is other evidence posted that straight hair may have come from South Asians who were also the first to adjust as far as pigmentation goes. Admixture definitively proves nothing. Most populations have only differentiated in their respective environs in the last 10,000 years, which is fairly recently. Not only that, but Northern Eurasia is less diverse in terms of hair form.Meaning, this could just be a case of their own adaptation. The super curly hair trait seems to have been lost rapidly given that the mutations in melanin genes for East Asians hadn't even accumulated a third as much in the ancestors of Native Americans who'd already aquired hair straighter than Straight haired South Asians and Europeans (the latter of which actually get quite wavy/curly hair). Lastly, since curlier and wavier hair allows for more heat expulsion from the body, and the process was gradual, it would seem that, if it was indeed initiated in conjunction with hair loss, we have no evidence to what degree, or when hair curly enough to be called Afro mutates. Infiniti28 (talk) 16:55, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

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