Posted on 05/04/2009 9:13:34 AM PDT by yankeedame
Make it so.
It should provide some fun for Anthropology students debating such theories.
Hey Moe...
Eggzactly! :)
and how did they know what color to make the skin?
Well, once they’d imagined the nose.....
LOl. Yup.
There have been other posts here at FR about the development of the white gene around or shortly after this time. It would indeed have given a survival advantage to woman who could absorb more Vitamin D, develop broad pelvises and give birth more easily.
Please tell me you are joking.
Is this outright denial of the common ancestry of humanity another often used justification for racism?
Do you suppose all life was seeded from different planets, or just the different races? How did we get so similar in DNA if we came from different planets?
It seems your “to Europe from Africa by way of Asia” light skin hypothesis lacks supporting evidence from what we see in DNA.
from “Scientists Find A DNA Change That Accounts For White Skin”
The work also reveals for the first time that Asians owe their relatively light skin to different mutations. That means that light skin arose independently at least twice in human evolution, in each case affecting populations with the facial and other traits that today are commonly regarded as the hallmarks of Caucasian and Asian races.
It is now theorized that modern humans moved out of Africa during a glacial period when the North of Africa was an arid wasteland worst than today, but the water in the strait between Yemen and the horn of Africa was much lower due to glacial water tie up.
As modern man moved eastwards, the population followed the coastline of Asia. One group broke off and moved northwestward up the Tigris/Euphrates and gave rise to Europeans and western Asians. The other group continued to follow the southern coast of Asia up to China and then moved westward inland. Another group moved into Australasia and another group continued norhtwards and across Beringia into North America.
So light skin probably did have multiple origins. But I hold to my original statement - skin color is relative. There are “Caucasians” with skin pigmentation darker than some non-Caucausians. There are morphological differences between breeding populations which are far greater than mere melanin tones.
The DNA evidence is pretty conclusive that there was one group of Black people out of Africa that became Asians, and a different group of Black people out of Africa that became European.
Europeans did not inherit the same skin lightening genes that Asians developed.
Thus, so far, nothing has been presented to support a Africa-Asian-European descent.
But looking at DNA we find evidence of independent evolution of light skin among Asians and Europeans, supporting independent descent from ancestral African populations.
Personally< I think some of the post African dating is too recent in the Chart. Mungo Man in Australia goes back quite a ways and new discoveries in the Americas show Clovis Man wasn’t really first.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
