All humans can trace their ancestry back to Africa, where presumably, people had curly hair and dark skin. Those who migrated North evidentially found some adaptive value in lower and lower levels of melonin -- why, I dunno, nor do I know why straight hair or blue eyes, etc. emerged as traits.
"Race" as applied to humans is not a biologically sound concept. A white person and a black person, etc. are not members of different species. For biological classification purposes, mammals belong to different species if they cannot produce fertile offspring. (Think mules, the offspring of donkeys and horses.) Race as applied to humans is a purely social concept, and over time, the boundaries of who is and who is not considered "white" has changed quite a bit. Hispanics, Southern Europeans and Arabs have all been in and out of that social group at one time or another.
White people and negroes are arguably the same
species..yes..but they are different
breeds..Like a Rottweiler is a dog and a chihuahua is a dog...but they are entirely different breeds.
The reason this issue still exists is that ultimately, it is not a purely scientific question. It's a philosophical one, and a sociological one, etc. Yes, people will have offspring that resemble them....that's how DNA works. But the values/importance attached to the resemblance is determined by humans as members of a society, not as scientists.
You deny that there is a difference between rottweilers and chihuahuas?..
The problem with the Out of Africa theory, is that it is just a theory.
Do you give much credence to Multi regional theory? or parallel origin theory?
No, I don't. I don't claim to be a scientist, but everything I have read and been taught seems to pretty clearly indicate we have a common ancestor and that ancestor was African.
That's arguable and you can't prove it.
What makes you think that Australopithecines was Black, though?
Who?
Just because Blacks make up the majority of the population in Africa today, doesn't mean that was always the case.
If you mean we can only guess at what the first Homo Sapiens really looked like, I agree. Obviously, skin and hair is very, very rarely preserved in the geological record.
Cro Magnon were not Black, Neither were Neanderthals, Hottentots or any of the other people who preceded the Black Africans.
Neanderthals did not precede Homo Sapiens. They existed simultaneously and died out. Cro Magnons were ancestors; I admit I have no idea who Hottentots are or were. In any event, we obviously have very little evidence of what their skin or hair looked like.
Whites and Asians are the only group known to have Neanderthal DNA.
This is the first I've ever heard this. Link, please?
You realize black skin didn't mutate until after humans had lost their fur?
Africans evolved to be black-skinned after ages in a sun-baked land promoted the proliferation of melanin in their hides.
This is likely true. But I'm not sure "fur" is the right word.
Neanderthals are thought to have been light skin and the Neanderthal race or species is much older than Homo sapien 600,000 vs. 200,000 years.
Okay, I'll take your word for this. Neanderthals apparently were much hairier; it never occurred to me to ask what color skin they might have had.
It is much more likely that the first humans were light skinned and hairy as opposed to being dark skinned.
The first Homo Sapiens, you mean? I kinda doubt it, but who cares?
At this point in time in Africa, the climate was much different than today. The Sahara didn't exist, it was lush grassland and what is now jungle was forests. There was no biological reason for the first people in Africa to be dark skinned.
Okay.
Instead of saying 'we all used to be Black' or 'we all have Black ancestry', maybe we should be saying 'we all used to be White' or 'we all have White ancestry'.
We all descend from African ancestors. We don't know exactly what they looked like. That better?
The horrible joke on the negroid race would be if it was discovered they are descendants of a White skinned population..
Because why?
hahahaha..LMFAO...Imagine!
Instead of evolving, humanity in terms of negroes devolved.
De-evolution is certainly possible. Geographic isolation in the Congo valley limiting the mating pool, intermixing with pygmies or non-Homo sapien forms, and so forth could of given rise to the distinct physical and behavioral characteristics that exist today in the Black African.
There's not much agreement among scientists that behavior is DNA-based. As for the rest of your statements, while it is true a defective gene can proliferate in a closed or isolated community, Africa has had almost none.
The placement of the first humans in Africa is political. It is just as likely that the first human populations arose in Arabia or Central Asia. But picking Africa serves a purpose.
It bolsters the equality agenda by suggesting everyone is the same and everyone shares a kinship with Blacks.
No, it is not political. The significance of the finding lies not in WHERE the common ancestor lived but in the fact that there was one. When I was a schoolchild, it was thought the common ancestor lived in the Middle East, and science has since discovered older human remains elsewhere. They might find even older ones on the South Pole tomorrow and this would still not undercut the factoid that we all share one ancestor.
People seem to have a propensity to xenophobia or some other common character defect that makes them identify with the place where they were born or the religion they follow, etc. and to be antagonistic to at least some nearby neighbors. One quick look at the history of the region now know as Czechsolvakia proves that, though similar tensions exist almost everywhere on Planet Earth (except possibly in island nations).
I can't explain the white supremacist movement. I suspect it all comes down to inadequacy and fear, or mebbe they're just assholes.
Do you see millions of Whites trying to sneak into non-White countries? Do you see Whites demanding to live in non-White neighborhoods? It is always the reverse. Apparently it's the other races that really believe in white supremacy.
