If every person came from one ansester, then how are there so many diffrent races?

Question

It doesn't make scense to me. Is it just the climate some one lives in that determines what race a person is? Like Asian and Latin people; how did they get the certain physical fetures that are so diffrent form every one else? Is it just clearly genetics?

Answer 1

You need to take a course in Anthropology or at least read
a book in the development of man and racial variations.

Answer 2

Well theres only one conclusion I've been able to come up with and that is or should I say depends on your personnel believes if you believe the version the Bibles and religions of the world tell it 's beginnings or if you rather except evolutions as a method of how things could have began one couple all these different culture hard to swallow unless you go on blind faith the other way could explain why there are so many different people climate and more that one pair of male and female could explain differences in features physically and genetically why we have such a wide variety of humans walking this earth as well as other specie

Answer 3

It is geographical location & climate, skin pigmentation adaptation, genetics and many other factors combined.

For instance, every human has three skin pigments--I think clear, an olive or yellow colored pigment and a caramel colored pigment. Which pigments are expressed the greatest depends on the amount of sunlight regularly absorbed into the skin. The amount of sunlight regularly absorbed into the skin depends on geographical location (near the equator, near the poles, etc.). The result we see now in different racial colors is the product of thousands of years of adaptation and expression. Same thing with hairyness to the shapes of human eyes.

Genetics, biology and anthropology courses will help answer your questions much better than my Mickey Mouse response. Good luck on your search for info!

Answer 4

Probably the mixture of skin colors and other features of today's people groups were contained in the original ancestors as well as in Noah and his sons and their wives. When God separated the people by changing the language they spoke, they became isolated from one another. The traits in each group became more pronounced without the co-mingling of all the traits. Some groups became whiter, other blacker, some stayed a brownish color.
Some often point to black people as being the origin of all the races, and then before them an ape-like creature. Humans gained new skin colors and eye shapes because of their environment rather than obtaining these traits from their parents. The body in response to less sunlight generated new genetic material. For example, a group of black people migrated north into colder climates. There, slowly over time their alleles changed, and they begain producing whiter and whiter children.

Answer 5

The human race began in Africa. As humans expanded their population, we traveled north. Before I continue, let me just say that all Africans have a certain gene that other races don't. Anyway, these people traveled around the world, and they had a need to adapt to their environment. So as time went on, the gene that Africans have began mutating so that other races were born. You could say it all happens through genetics, or through adaption to the environment.

Answer 6

Natural selection and the processing of Vitamin D created racial change over 10's of thousands of years. At one point all humans were likely ******* out of Africa and through evolutionary change became the races of today. Melanin which governs skin color and the processing of vitamin D (I am simplifying here) favors lighter skin in temperate climates. Darker skin is an advantage in the tropics since darker skin doesn't burn as easily - that favors dark skin - less skin cancer you will survive to pass your darker skin genes. Size, body shape, fat stores, etc are all governed by environment and those with genes best adapted to that environment are most likely to succeed in passing those genes.

Answer 7

It's just that birth defect and other climate things makes you adapt to the invironment, and different people have different mates, different kids, and then, there's the thing about having more melanin in the skin, this is like a slight birthdefect, it's the same as us, evolving by a little birthdefect, and from monkeys, we became humans.

Answer 8

its genetics, as ppls spread out, they interbread, creatin all sorts of wonderful genetic coctails

you came from 2 ppl : mom and dad
mom came from 2 ppl: granmom and grandad
dad came from 2 ppl: granmomm and grandadd

2granmoms nd 2 grandads each also came from 2 ppl

those are all your ancestors and they can be from completely diff cultural bg's
so if your mom is an italian-french-german-australian-colombian-english mix,
and your dad russian-chinese-mexican-canadian-irish-black

youre pretty diverse......

personally im mostly (when simplified) ukrainian-german
but my roots are slavic (all russian speaing and such countries)
and german/austrian...

Answer 9

well people spread out to other continents...climates changed, water, environment, food - stuff that effects pigment, facial structure etc....then you know we have such a thing as genetic mutations...that's why you get mixed couples who have twins where one is white and the other is black...it does happen..there are documentaries on that.....