Unfortunately, there is not a racially defined lip size. Anyone can have larger lips depending on their genetics and whether or not they have enhanced them cosmetically.

For the same reason white people have such small ones!

They say people with full lips are generous in spirit and not hard and cold as people with thin lips. It is my experience that this is correct, no matter who they are.

I found this info at http://bioweb.wku.edu/courses/Biol114/Genetics/Human_Genetics/Human_Genetics1.asp A phenotype such as lip size is determined by pairs of genes and follow the rules of dominant and recessive genes. If either parent has the gene then all of the children will have that phenotype. Examples of some phenotype are: Eye shape: Almond-shaped eyes are dominant. Eyelash Length: Long eyelashes are dominant. Lip Thickness: Thick lips are dominant. Skin color is not dominant or recessive. Skin color is polygenic, meaning there are multiple genetic factors creating a full range of light to dark coloration possibilities. While these two phenotypes are not related, In my opinion, Natural Selection may be a factor. If the standard of beauty in a culture is for a recessive gene, then people with thin lips may find a mate more often in that society. Some Africans along the Nile river bear this out. Still the definition of BLACK people is on my agenda for difinition. Are you including all people native to Africa, India and areas in between?

well they're blessed with them

God blessed us with it.

Black people have larger lips, and nostrals, because their anscestors through evolution lived in a hot climated that did not fluxuate as much as climates around te globe. Basically, they are beings equipped for sun and heat. Larger lips offer several advantages in heat. They are a larger "cooling" surface of the mouth, they help cool the air as it passes the moist lips and enters the lungs which keeps the body cooler. The same goes for the nostrals, they are wider allowing more of the "thinner" warm air to enter at a faster speed, cooling the air and again in turn cooling the body. Slavery has not been around long enough to alter these genetics, however, you will notice a higher amount of lean muscle and thicker bones from blacks with slave anscestory as they were "bred" from large female and large male to make large children. Often smaller and weaker slaves were not bred and possibly were rendered useless, given less food and even put to death. People, do not be afraid of knowledge, knowing reality does not make you a "racist" only not excepting the reality of co-existance and human equality does. FYI: Black people are "black" because the dark skin, often thicker than white skin, sheilds the body from strong and constant sun thus making it cooler.

I don't know about the lips, but their noses have to do with evolution. As they come from a place that's not as rich in oxygen (the dry desert), their noses evolved to better facilitate the transfer of oxygen into their bodies. It's also why Africans have eyes that are like many Asians. Thin and slanted in shape, it helps to block out a lot of the sunlight.

I'm 100% white and of German ancestry, but I have lips as big as i've seen on most black people. I don't know where I got them from, it certainly wasn't from either of my parents (my dad actually has very thin lips). I don't know of anyone in my extended family that has them either. I guess it's just one of life's many mysteries. Glad I have them though, I think they're one of my best features...

If a black person asked why white people had thin lips, what would you think and say? It's all about genetics and natural or manmade selection. There are many black people in Africa without big lips, as well. I have big lips, by the way, and I am not black. I'm the 'male counterpart' to Angelina Jolie, and the women love my luscious, plump, soft lips for a *good* reason. Don't knock 'em simply because you don't have 'em. Jealousy is a sad thing. ;)