Human race continued...?

Question

As I don't know how to reply to any answers I get from my questions...

Yeah okay so we are all related, but how? I am confused as to how me as an asian person developed from an africa, who's characteristics are very different to mine etc.

I'm a female.
Haven't bothered to change my DP.

Answer 1

I really have no idea why you're asking this question.

I mean, if this freaks you out then I have no clue how you can fathom evolution, where essentially everything came out of something competely unrecognizable to itself. So . . .if by that you end up rejecting evolution then you have no reason to believe in any theories about human variation though science whatsoever. If you instead believe in a religious creation story then your alternative answer can almost certainly be found in there.

Answer 2

You first need to ask this question in the biology section, where a geneticists will give you an answer far superior to any you can receive in the social science section. First; I will address your rather large non sequturs. The genetic information and related discipline information show with great empirical support that the original migration of humans was from Africa; their is no dispute among the educated about this. Secondly; the " out of Africa theory, that posits the migration of modern humans out of African about 100,000 years ago, is highly suggested by the genetic evidence. Your second non sequitur is even more egregious. African characteristics are NOT very different from yours and to posit the superficiality as, " very different ", is just ignorant. You need to acquaint yourself with the science of human genetics and evolutionary history and give up the Asian fairy tales your were taught.

Answer 3

Actually, scientists have, by studying our DNA, concluded that we are all related to one woman from Africa. It's pretty cool. Anyway, what happened was, a group of humans evolved in Africa due to various environmental pressures. It turns out, we are a pretty successful and adaptable species. As our numbers grew, we moved out of Africa and into Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, and eventually onto every corner of the globe.

As we moved into different areas, the groups were subject to different environmental pressures. DNA tends to mutate at a fairly regular pace. Many of these mutations you won't even notice- there is an incredible amount of "junk" DNA that doesn't even do anything. Some of these mutations are tragic and fatal. Some don't do any harm, but aren't really beneficial, either- hair color is one example of this. And then some are beneficial. Skin color probably falls into this category. As long as we were in Africa, our skin stayed pretty dark, because that protects against skin cancer, for instance. Try to imagine your favorite redhead trying to survive on the savannah before sunblock was invented. Wouldn't happen. When some of our ancestors moved to Europe, for example, darker skin became detrimental. I've heard that paler skin is helpful for vitamin D processing in climates where there isn't as much sun, like northern Europe. Since these paler people would be healthier in Europe, they tended to reproduce more, so their traits got passed on. That's how you get the white skin of Europe. This is a very rough idea, by the way.

For a very long time, people didn't move around much, and they really didn't marry anyone living far away. The average European wouldn't even meet an African or an Asian, let alone sleep with them. Heck, the average French person wouldn't even be meeting someone from, I don't know, Germany. So the mutations that occured would tend to stay in a small geographical area. For instance, the Irish got the mutation for red hair. Since they mostly married other Irish people, that mutation largely stayed in that population. Nowadays, if you see someone with red hair and pale skin, you can be reasonably sure they've got Irish ancestors. That's basically how the differences between races occured, and in fact, even the differences between cultural groups. Nordic peoples tend to be tall and blond, Russians are darker and hairier. Native Americans got the killer cheekbones. All those markers for various groups are the result of a slow accumulation of beneficial mutations, or at least ones that don't hurt, in a population that tended to mate within itself. Compound this by thousands upon thousands of years, and you've got different races. If that lack of interbreeding had kept up long enough, we may have even ended up with different species- but that would have taken a very long time indeed, and we came nowhere near that. Now, of course, everyone's flying around and multiracial marriages are becoming more and more common. We may end up all mixed together again.

Answer 4

Aliens from another world. visited many years ago. they mixed there d n a with chimpanzees. we have 98% chimp DNA in us,2 % alien. DNA. they then spread out the results of this mixing,colonizing the other areas of this world. they created humans so they could take the children as slaves. there still doing this.to this day.watch the Sky's.But they mind control people. People don't remember them coming down and doing what ever they wont, they make us forget. so many children just disapear every year. there takeing the little children, the damn creatures. I hate them for what they have done and are doing,.we couldnt be a natural race of creatures. look at how we are distroying this world with pollution and raping the land.

Answer 5

you probably wont find the right answer here! u d eiter get stupid answers or called a racist for a perfectly reaonable question.
i too wonder the same question. im mediteranean and too see too many differences to be considered white let alone see how can i be related to an african
look it p inanthropology books, take a class or do some research.

Answer 6

Indeed. Human race continued

Answer 7

you assume the ******* race were the "original" inhabitants of africa. science does not confirm that. "race" is the end result ot free choice, nothing more.

Answer 8

lol.... thats mean...