How are there white and black people?

Question

A genuine question, was never taught it at school or anything. Who came first and how did one become other

Answer 1

I believe Adam was white.

Answer 2

The main problem is the relative hairlessness of human beings. We are not quite sure when this happened. Before the loss of thick body hair, "people" would have had light skin under dark hair. When the hair was lost, the skin had to rpotect itself from the effects of the sun. The main method used is tanning, where the skin darkens. The original hairless people were neither black nor white, but brown, but quite variable shades. They lived in Africa from where they spread all over the world.
Paler skin is an adaptation to maximise the ability to manufacture vitamin D, in less sunny climates. Presumably people with darker skins suffered from vitamin deficiency, and were liable to disease.
Mongolian features are an adaptation to cope with the extreme cold of the far east in the Ice Ages.
Meanwhile in Africa, changes also took place. Black skin and thick hair are adaptations to protect the body from the damage that exposure to the sun can do.
We are not quite sure what the very first people looked like, but if you look at Australian aborigines, or Kalahari Bushmen, that is probably as close as you can get. They tan darker than Europeans, but the skin is relatively light when not exposed.
This is a very simplified potted version.

Answer 3

There is such a headache outhere!But here is your perfect answer.We all know that earth is a hot ball when it was formed and for many billion years it had been cooling.In that process in middle of this cooling the organisms came to life and the man also does on this planet earth.The color of the man is inpredictable since due to the region it will change.How becoz at the time of human evolution the little hotter places on earth are cooled first when earth is cooling down and the hotter parts of the earth took so many years to cool.Thats why in africa we find people of black color,since there the temperature at the time of eaths cooling is very high and the humans at that time we burnt into that color and the genarations followed.Same in the way the antartica also.Cooled first,so people and animals are white.Thats it!
have a nice day!

Answer 4

the only thing I can think of, is that it has something to do with climates. Hairy paler skinned races, living in the cooler parts of the world eg Eskimos, and less hairy, darker skinned races, living in the hotter parts of the world, eg Africans. Sorry this is just a guess, if I sound dim, or offend anybody, I apologise

Answer 5

Forget about Adam and Eve. Bible is farce.

Humans evolved. Africa is the place where they are still coming across homosapiens going back to several millenniums. Bibe did not even exist then.

Light skin color came after several thousands of years when humans were exposed to less of sunlight. Simple theory.

What Bible has got to do with it? Don't bring religion into everything. Think like a human, He has given you greymatter - so use it. Use scientific deduction.

Answer 6

well, i think we all adapted depending on which part of the world we are in. i mean people who live in hot areas such as native Africans, would have dark tough skin due to harmful sun rays, arctic dwellers would have some kind of fatty deposits to protect vital organs, and stuff like that. i think there was no 1st or second arrival, we all evolved simultaneously in our part of the world

Answer 7

LOL! Adam was white? No, son, you are mistaken. The bible does not reference race, it references nations. There is absolutely no reference in the bible to Adam and Eve's race, let alone skin color. Given the time and place the bible places them in, it is likely that Adam and Eve's skin color was similar to that of an American Indian.

Answer 8

It's to do with the different couples that came out of the Ark after the flood.

Answer 9

because the anatomy of black people show that their skin is black because of sun burning and their thigh are much suitable to running and their noses are bigger to help them breathing and their lips are bigger too to prevent thirst.....in a short way their much capable to live forever more than white people..gosh they're strong..

Answer 10

Black skin was first as Humans evolved in Africa. Lighter skin evolved as we moved north so that we could get enough sun to synthisize vitamin D.

Answer 11

well if you lived in africa you'd have a great tan in no time but if you lived in england you wouldn't, multiply your life time by 10,000 years you will change colour in a different climate.
I often wonder if animals have different skin colour under the fur.