Not trying 2 be racist, but do u think whites evolved frm black Africans?

Question

I'm black by the way. I'm just curious cos if evolutin is true, that's what it implies, especially if the apes are still evolving and will soon be homosapiens. I'm not saying blacks will become white; but cos we get lighter when we go to colder regions, maybe white ancestors were the first immigrants frm Africa who lost the melanine as they didn't need it anymore. Think abt it.

Answer 1

i believe in evolution, and yes whites did come from blacks. think about this everybody agrees that the human race started in africa right. that means our pigment was damaged witch causes skin color. as we go to places like euorpe our pigment get less damaged so they repair and get lighter. thats how white people get tanned. im white bye the way. your pretty smart not one of my teachers would try to think about it. bye

Answer 2

Given the current evidence, and belief, yes It is very possible that the white group evolved from a older black group. It is very likely that man had its start somewhere on or near the equator.

Granted with plate tectonics and all no one can be for sure. But I would say that the best bet is Whites evolved from a race near the equator rather then Black population moving down from some place colder. Science just does not support that.

Answer 3

I have to disagree with you on two points. First no evolutionist ever claimed that Humans ever evolved from apes. Darwin said, and I believe, that humans evolved from former forms of life. Nothing was said or implied that the lower form had to pass through the ape family to become human. The word that Darwin used was ape-like.
Humans were never apes, and apes will never evolve into humans.
Second point. Since there is no evidence that people were ever covered with fur ( although there's a possibility ), they had to start their evolution in a warm climate. The ability to clothe themselves had to come long after the first sign of becoming human.
That means humans had to evolve somewhere in the tropic zone, not necessarily Africa.

Answer 4

From my studies in science when I was in college, I understood that genetic tests have proven that all humans are descended from one small group that lived in Africa. The closest living ethnicity to this group is the !Kung people of the kalahari; they would be described as 'black' but are not very dark skinned.

The important thing to remember here though is that white people are not MORE evolved than black people; if this were the case then natural selection would have seen the eradication of the !Kung long ago.

The ideas in your question are generally accepted as true by modern science, but of course the change in skin colour was very gradual.

We CERTAINLY are all the same species (because all ethnicities can breed to together to produce fertile offspring) so surely we must have a common origin;
it is possible for similar species to originate in different continents, but not the SAME species.

Answer 5

The evolution theory is a supposition, not a reality. That's why black is black and white is white. But if you mix both color you get a new color and this a proof of nobody can assure that a black person came from a white and vice verse. For the reason that if you analyze about how many persons had participated in the making of your. You're wondered that in 20 generations had participated 1 048 576 persons in making of your. it's easy. You get a father and a mother, 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents, 16 great great grandparents, etc...

Answer 6

Actually, under their hair, chimps have fairly pale skin. I think the going theory is that the earliest homo sapiens had light brown skin, like is still seen in the tribes of the Kalahari today. From there they migrated to various places and skin color changed according to the environment they found themselves in. Black skin prevents severe sunburn, so became neccessary on the savannahs and deserts of Africa, while in Europe and Norhtern Asia, sunburn was less of a problem, and whiter skin developed. So in answer to the question, no, white people did not evolve from black africans, they both came from a common ancestor who was somewhere in-between.

Answer 7

By the time the first humans left Arica, they already were Homo sapiens. Lighter skin in white people is just an adaptation for an environment not as summy as Africa was. In Africa, we need melanine to block the excess of UV rays that cause cancer, but if you have very dark skin in northern Europe and don't get enough calcium from diet, you will probably develop rachitism. Sunlight on your skin helps your body to produce vitamin D, which helps your body to get enough calcium from diet (uo to 40% more, I think). So, lighter skin was only an ADAPTATION because of a different environment, which means whites are ADAPTED to live for example in Europe, and dark skin in black people is an ADAPTATION to their environment (whites will probably die os skin cancer if they didn't use any sunblock). So we all are adapted, none of us is more "evolved".

Answer 8

from wikipedia:

There are two prominent scientific theories of the origins of contemporary humans. They concern the relationship between modern humans and other hominids.
The single-origin, or "out of Africa", hypothesis proposes that modern humans evolved in Africa and later migrated outwards to replace hominids in other parts of the world.
The multiregional hypothesis, on the other hand, proposes that modern humans evolved, at least in part, from independent hominid populations.[14]

[14] Eswaran, Vinayak, Harpending, Henry & Rogers, Alan R. Genomics refutes an exclusively African origin of humans, Journal of Human Evolution, In Press, Corrected Proof, retrieved May 6, 2005.

Answer 9

first off every time someone says that crap about not wanting to be racist they always are. they are just trying to be politically correct about it. and you need to learn what the theory of evolution is before you go around quoting and making statements like apes becoming homosapiens. we are homosapiens and we did not evolve from the great apes that you see today. we all had a common ancestor and evolved separately from each other. they are not becoming us they are becoming better apes, better versions of themselves, if we ever stop killing them off. and science has already stated that caucasians migrated from africa, and they didn't lose the melanin they just produced less of it in order to allow more of the suns rays to penetrate the skin because as you travel farther away from the equator the rays are less direct, and we need sunlight to produce vitamin D in our skin. and this argument about whites evolving from blacks is a bad issue to bring up. white supremacists use this view to justify the removal of people of color because they see them as out dated models.

Answer 10

We derived from a common ancestor, but we haven't evolved into a different species, just different varioations of the same. The common ancestor was almost certainly black, since Africa is the cradle of humanity and black skin is necessary there to protect the skin from sun provoked cancers..

If apes develope to our level of intelligence, they won't be homo sapiens, but another species. We wouldn't be able to interbreed, which is the sign of the same species.

Answer 11

Probably so, as did modern day black Africans. Doesn't make you a racist...things are what they are.

Skin color adaptations seem pretty easy to explain, some other differences leave me scratching my head. For example, hair follicle shape - what factor could possible cause selection in favor of straight hair? What the heck is that all about?

How about large, pointy noses? I can't think of anything I could do better or differently with mine than someone else can with a broader, rounder one.

Maybe some of these traits stem from a common gene...so selection for one trait forces selection of another...

who knows.