That image is wrong and racist.
There were no lighter-skinned ape predecessors of men in the evolutionary model. White and Asian are human variations that appeared long long after homo sapiens sapiens was fully developed.
There’s a great deal of racist assumption, in models of human evolution. So, it’s not surprising at all, that some old science book rendering would show the pinnacle of human evolution as a light haired European.
For an example you can start with the “Out Of Africa” theory. Basically, it says that the smart ones left.
What's up with that 'asian' eye thing? Why did God decide to pull the eyes back like they had fishhooks in them? And he made the fishes and animals with the same eyes.
WHAZZUP WIT DAT?
And White people with barely any pigment at all. What's to keep the Sun from killing them?
Forced them to invent textile manufacturing, which needed energy and burned coal, which led to global warming, which....
SEE? WHAZZZUPWITDAT!!!