Evolutionists, question about race.....?

Question

I have two questions, and I am compltley serious about them, so please, if you know, if youve been taught, enlighten me, this IS NOT a question about faith or God. I am truly, sincerley curious.

If you believe that we came from Apes, if that was our process of evolution, how then did we become seperate races? Is their a teching in evolution that allows for the seperate races to have formed?

Again, I am NOT trying to disprove it. I believe in God, but I think science is essential to life, and have not dicredited the possibility of some knd of evolution process, so please take this question seriously!

Answer 1

evolution takes millions of years. as the races developed, they were isolated on different parts of the globe. They different climates are the main reason I think we are different races now. The amount of sun, water, heat or cold. Over millions of years, these things make a difference.

That's just a basic thought.

Answer 2

The reason why there are different races can be explained by evolution. While we did in fact evolve from primates originally, there were other evolutionary factors that could explain why there are different races. For example, the reason why Europeans have white skin and Africans have brown skin can be explained this way.
A good deal of Africa is exposed to a great deal of sun and heat. As time went on early in the history of the human race, there could have been a genetic mutation in someone in Africa that gave them darker skin. This would be advantageous because with darker skin they are less succeptable things like sunburn, which would be very useful somewhere where it is very sunny and hot, so the trait caught on.
On the other hands, Europeans did not live in the same kind of climate, so having natural protection to things like sunburn didn't really matter. Because of this, they developed fairer skin that is much more liable to get burned.

Answer 3

There is more to race than skin color, but to simplify I will address that aspect only.
As I understand it, we each have 4 genes that determine skin color. Some dominant, some recessive. For this example we will call the dominent "A" and "B" and the recessive "a" and "b".
You get an "A" (or "a") from each parent and a "B" (or "b") from each. If a person has "AABB", he has very dark skin. If a person has "aabb" he is very light. Other combonations have skin color in the middle shades.
If an "AABB" person has a child with another "AABB" person, they can only have an "AABB" child (darkest skin). If a group of these people migrate away together and never have children with people of other skin colors, they will become a race of only dark skinned people.
Now, suppose the first man and woman both were "AaBb". Each parent could give either a dominent or recessive of each gene. Some children may be "aabb" (very white), some "AaBb" (middle color) and some "AABB" (very dark).
If the ofspring began to group together with others that looked alike, vrey quickly there would be various races formed.
This could explain the many races from the beginning of only 2 parents (ie. Adam and Eve) or any other small beginning group of the parents of all humans.

Answer 4

I have never read in the evolutionary theory that we come from modern day apes. In fact, I believe that evolution suggests that apes and man (and all primates) evolved from another mammalian (prehistoric) species. I therefore do not believe that we evolved directly from apes as we know them. Also, your knowledge of evolution needs a little boost.

However, evolution clearly explains the different races, since over time evolution calls for genetic changes and different traits based upon environmental conditions and benefit to the species. For example, in Africa, or near the equator, the sun is closer to the earth, and the climate is hotter. The melanin in skin is a natural protection against the sun. Melanin is also what causes black people to have darker skin. Black people originally came from Africa. Coincidence or evolution?

Asians, Eskimos, and pacific islanders (who live near water and have relied heavily on fishing for survival) have narrower eyes to help block the glare off of the water.

The other differences in race have similarly been explained due to geographic variability.

I think evolution is much more clear on how different races have evolved than say, the bible. What race were Adam and Eve? Ans how did Adam and Eve have different-raced children? How does the bible explain race?

Answer 5

First to talk about evolution you need to know what's evolution is all about.
Evolution thoery does not say we came from apes, it says apes and us came from same middle men species.
Second the theory is not proved yet but mostly accepted in thinking community.
And would be nice if ppl will stop limiting them self only to evolution or creation. There may be 1000"s other way how its all started. Don't let your mind to be closed.

ex. God create aliens , Aliens create HUmans, Humans start
evolution. There are many way to be. Aliens start humans, humans Create GOD and so on.


Some 1 above me wrote "If that were true, we would be seeing it happen now, or there would be no Apes.
Seeing there are apes, and we don't see them turning into humans, I believe that was never true. "

Wow some 1 expect evolution to tunr over night. Wow they are probably very impattient ppl. Who said it has to go both ways either. It can go up but not down. Use imagination.

THerefore everything is a state of mind.

Answer 6

I am glad you asked this question, and the answer to it is simply that evolution does not state that humans are descendants of apes.

Evolution states that Humans, along with apes, came from a previous life form.

You must think of evolution as a branching bush, not a ladder.

Humans and apes both came from the same precursor.

We grew from one species, into two different species, neither of which gave life to the other. Humans and other apes are descended from a common ancestor whose population split to become two (and more) lineages.

Answer 7

It's all about adaptation when our primitive ancestors left Africa, or stayed depending on your race, we evolved to best suit that environment. Light skin absorbs more Vitamin D, which is needed to strengthen bones, but black skin is advantageous in hotter climates because it has more resistance to harsh ultraviolet rays of the sun. The article below will better explain the time-line and evidence behind our migration and evolution.

Answer 8

Okay, first up, this question is in the wrong category. That said, the physical differences between people arise when gene pools are isolated. People in Asia didn't marry people in Africa, Europe, or the Americas because it was too far away and they never met. Little changes in DNA (like for lighter or darker skin, eye color, and hair color) became common in some groups, but didn't find their way to the others.

Answer 9

I believe in God but I also believe in evolution, facts are we change according to our environment, winter time we store fat cells and grown thicker hair, summer, it all sheds
As far as humans coming from Apes
If that were true, we would be seeing it happen now, or there would be no Apes.
Seeing there are apes, and we don't see them turning into humans, I believe that was never true.

Answer 10

Not really sure...I'm not an expert on it and I'm not an evolutionist. But on the other hand, how do we have different races if God created us and we are all decendants of Adam and Eve? I think there are mysteries in this world that don't really need to be solved. We just live.