supposed to come from africa and was black,remember that africa as it is today is not the africa it was at the time of the first appearance of a human,it was joined by other lands and so its as likely that it could have been white or yellow,or tan human,
2006-09-28 22:01:13 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I don't think we do assume it, we just think it is quite likely, because without a covering of fur the skin needs the protection of melanin in the tropical sun. But it's not something we are likely ever to know as a fact, nor does it matter. Pre-human hominids, say 2-3 million years ago, may still have been very furry, in which case their skin would not have needed the melanin and would probably have been largely pale.
2006-09-28 22:19:58 · answer #1 · answered by Sangmo 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Don't get your timeframes confused.
If you are thinking that Africa was joined together with other continents... yes, but that was 250 million years ago. There were no humans until (at the very earliest) only 1 million years ago. And modern humans, probably not until abut 100,000 years ago. So by the time humans came along, Africa was long since separated from Asia and Europe.
The first humans were probably dark skinned, but there are some health advantages to being lighter skinned if you are living in a climate that is cloudy. So it probably didnt take long at all for dark skinned people who wandered out of Africa to become lighter skinned. Remember that it is not that rare for people of African descent to be albinos -completely white. So children of albinos and darker skinner people would have an intermediate skin color. In a few generations there could be a wide range of skin tones developed.
There is still a lot of argument about this, but I am pretty sure that the oldest human 'fossils' by far are from Africa - (100,000s of years old, if not older) , and the fossils/burials of humans in Europe and Asia are much younger (a few 10,000s mainly). And humans have only been in the Americas for almost certainly less than 30,000 years, and some think only about 15,000... so, it's pretty certain that humans originated in Africa.
2006-09-29 05:08:09 · answer #2 · answered by matt 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
AFRICA IS AT THE CENTRAL REGIONAL OF THE WORLD.
SO IT GOT MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE FROM THE SUN FIRST REQUIRED TO DO THE CHEMICAL REACTION TO BRING LIFE FROM NATURE AND WE SEE THE GROWTH OF FORESTS VERY FAST IN AFRICA SO IS THE CASE IN HUMAN BEING ALSO.
2006-09-29 05:34:34 · answer #3 · answered by mslh_uddin 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Matt said it all, much better than I could have explained it,he deserves 10 points
2006-09-29 05:20:16 · answer #4 · answered by ausblue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont assume i know my shyt and i say yea they were black!
2006-09-29 05:13:02 · answer #5 · answered by oz_gurl2005 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋