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To: stremba
The gradient was caused by interbreeding. I will agree with that. However, it still is a case where allele frequencies have changed over time, and hence is an example of human evolution, regardless of cause.

How did White people evolve in Egypt and stay separate from Blacks just a few miles away for 75,000 years (during much of which there was no desert barrier) until the last couple millennia? What do you believe Blacks think about being considered a link between apes and White people (ravagers of the earth)? The monkey speaks his mind.
260 posted on 02/14/2005 9:37:07 AM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth...)
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

First of all, nobody is claiming that "black people are a link between apes and white people." That's something you just made up from whole cloth. My point is that the frequency of the alleles responsible for human skin color has changed over time. That's called evolution. There's no presumption that some people are "more evolved" than others, or that one group of people are closer to apes than others. All humans do not share the exact same pattern of allele frequencies, however. Dark skin is favored in warmer, equitorial climates. Light skin is favored in colder climates. As far as white people evolving in Egypt is concerned, where is your evidence that this is how it happened? Isn't it possible that the people who formed the earliest civilizations in Egypt were migrants from another part of the world who had evolved lighter colored skin? Isn't it possible that the main barriers to interbreeding were cultural and sociological rather than geological? (Ie. the Egyptians considered themselves superior to the surrounding non-Egyptians)


265 posted on 02/14/2005 11:22:13 AM PST by stremba
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