If humans come from the same origin, then what is their original skin colour?

Answer 1

The human race originated in Africa, in tropical zones, so our orginal skin color was probably very dark because of the climate. As humans migrated northward and out of Africa, they gradually developed lighter skin to deal with a colder climate with less sunshine. That's why Scandanavians are blonde and pale and Africans have dark hair and eyes and dark skin. It's just a matter of where on the planet your particular ancestors evolved.

Answer 2

Skin colour is due to pigment in your skin. The difference in colorid determined from which part of the world you come from. Those persons living close to the tropics or hot areas GENERALLY (not always) would have darker skin as compared to persons living in more temperate places. But this has happened over the course of hundreds and thousands of years. This is an adaptation for survival in the region. Just like the same animal having varied features based on their location, similar lines can be drawn with humans and their skin colour.

Answer 3

We can't say for sure what the very first Homo sapiens looked like in terms of skin color. It is a safe bet, however, that dark skin - an adaptation to the sunny climates in which the species originated - was either there right from the start, as a trait inherited from the species that gave rise to Homo sapiens, or was acquired soon after speciation.

Answer 4

I think the word black is more of a social issue. I mean do people we call black are they really the color black? I think the first people had some ******* in them but also had some caucasoid cranial features. It was probably more of a dark brown color. as people moved north their skin color, hair color, and eye color got lighter. as people moved close to the equator they probably got darker. However you also have to look beyond skin color, you have too look at eye, nose and lip structure as well. The first people might have come from Africa, but it doesn't mean that they were of full ******* features. They probably had a mixture of different race possiblities, its just that certain ones were either diluted or became more recessive in certain groups.

Something that is also important is if you believe like a monogenist. This is that you believe that human beings and races started out in one place and then spread out to other places. If you are a polygenist that means that you believe that different races were put on different sections of the globe.

Answer 5

Chimps have light skin, Gorillas have dark skin. if all the races decended from a common ancestor, A variation in skin colors may have always existed to various extents. Of course there is no way to prove this one way or the other without some really, really, old DNA, that the chances of us ever finding, are slim and none.

Answer 6

If human species originated in Africa, and the most "original" remaining race is dark skinned, and if African cousins chimpanzee, bonobo (98.4% similarity) and gorilla are also dark colored... So aur ancestors must have been very brown or black, and all non-black races are bleached by evolutionary adaptation to less sunny environments.

Answer 7

I believe the out of Africa theories are exaggerated but I think it is plain that at least some of our ancestors came from Africa and South Asia and therefore had melanin to protect their presumed bare skin. Since melanin is a pigment that is very very dark red, I would say that is the probably color of their skin of at least some of our ancestors. The original one is pretty hard to pin down since it obviously had parents, if you get my meaning.

Answer 8

This was in the news recently...
All skin color was black until a mutation occurred when people migrated across the Siberian Penninsula to the Western World. Therefore, westerners carry the mutated gene and have white skin.

Answer 9

Black, we originated out Africa 50,000 to 70,000 yrs ago. Over time our skin color changed in response to the climate we eventually settled in. White skin, for example, resulted as a means for humans to get sufficient vitamin D from the sun in northern regions with lower light.

Answer 10

geneticists have determined that the modern population with the least amount of mutation are the Kung of south africa and they probably most closely resemble the original humans. the Kung have medium yellowish brown skin.