2007-01-27 15:55:34 · 17 answers · asked by MoneyMike 1 in Health ➔ Mental Health
Does it really matter?
2007-01-27 15:59:19 · answer #1 · answered by powerliftingrules 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think researchers know, and I am not sure how you define "person." Do you mean Homo sapiens, or earlier forms of humans?
I would say probably brown/black, because humans evolved in Africa under intense sunlight, and needed the pigment to protect our skin from UV.
I don't agree that lighter skin was necessarily selected for by personal preference (light skin being more attractive idea). I think light skin would have been a disadvantageous mutation in Africa on the savannah with inadequate clothing, and up north, it actually is an advantage to have light skin, because you can make more vitamin D, then (dark folks typically have a terrible vitamin D deficiency, especially in winter, if they live far away from the equator). If some anthropologist has proposed sexual selection for lighter skin, I can't see what evidence they could have for it.
2007-01-28 00:04:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
An excellent question for religion but I will answer it here. If you allow for us being an old planet with a new civilization on it you see many landings here from six other advanced planets which all degenerated to tribal life. We slowly produced this civilization. Some of the original humanoids are on this planet from way before. I hope to see the day when we send a few ships out for the next planet to enjoy. God , why did you ask this in a nut house.
2007-01-28 00:33:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People keep stating false info and saying we evolved from Africa whereas they have found recently evidence showing it started near where Turkey is now. But no one knows what color the first person was, no one was there but the first person and God and to God, it's not important or He would have told us.
2007-01-28 00:12:21 · answer #4 · answered by tinagoomba 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Seeing as that all human life started in Africa, I'm going to say the first person was darker than you.
2007-01-28 00:04:24 · answer #5 · answered by six_foot_2_midget 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think anybody really knows because at the beginning of the bible when G-d created man and then woman, the color of their skin was never mentioned.
With that in mind, I believe that if you ask a white person that question they will most likely say white, a black person would most likely say black etc., etc., etc.
2007-01-28 00:10:17 · answer #6 · answered by alli42454 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I heard on a TV show that they were dark brown or black. Doesn't make any difference to me, I was born white and can't do anything about it. My people must have come out of caves or something.
2007-01-28 00:06:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dark brown. Scientists found evidence.
2007-01-27 23:59:31 · answer #8 · answered by cheeeeer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The earliest human was discovered in east africa.
Anyway, at that time, race wasn't even a concept.
2007-01-28 00:04:20 · answer #9 · answered by smoofus70 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Brown. I haven't read the bible, but weren't the descendants of Adam and Eve Hebrew? I think that's right.....
2007-01-28 00:35:09 · answer #10 · answered by Christy K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well from the theory of evolution it would be dark brown I believe.
2007-01-28 00:02:43 · answer #11 · answered by Joey 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋