If human evolved from Africa do we know the first humans were black?

Question

Has this been proven?

Mabye they were say orange?

Are there skeletons that prove that blacks have not changed much?

Do we have african skeletons in Europe that are really old?

Also a million years ago or whatever, was the distribution of the weather the same; i.e., was africa always warmer than europe.

Answer 1

When we were still at the Australopithecine stage, we would have been hairy, but with light skins, like chimpanzees are today, but as we evolved into hominins, our fur thinned, being selected for increase efficiency of evaporation of perspiration. This enabled our direct descendents to forage, scavenge the remains of kills by other species, which would have been resting in the shade during the hot part of the day, like lions and leopards do today, and hunt without competition. At the same time, the increased light levels reaching our skin caused the production of greater levels of skin pigmentation, the melanin providing partial protection against the damaging ultra-violet content of the tropical sun. Those males which had slightly darker skin, would have been able to get more meat, by staying out in the sun longer, and would have gained the sexual favours of more females, when they regularly returned with more meat than those forced to stay in the shade, passing on their genes to their offspring, both male and female.

Answer 2

Only hard parts fossilize, so no we don't definitively know whether or not the first humans were black. But, all of the fossil evidence points towards Africa as the origin of human kind. Look at it from this perspective, having black skin would have been an advantage in equatorial regions as far as skin cancers and other U.V. related hazards (mutations). Also, skeletons found in Europe would be considered European not African and the same goes for African finds.

Answer 3

Look. The skin color has mainly to do with the weather conditions of that time. If it was really hot and sunny when all the humans started migrating to other continents, then they were probably really dark skinned.

But when it would get really cold and the sun would be blocked, their skins started losing its pigment since it didnt need to protect from the sun.

Answer 4

Not sure about the skin color.

But for the weather, you have to remember that we go through periodic ice ages every once in a while. So in the past million years we prob had about 5 ice ages or more.

Answer 5

Yeah...maybe they were orange with big green polka dots and came from another planet.
If you weren't there...you can't say for certain.

I wonder if they were green with big orange polka dots.

Do you think they had antennae, and used ESP before building the pyramids?

Yup.

Answer 6

its very unlikely that the first humans were orange... that pigment isn't normally predominate in human skin

i cant site research, but i have read that the first humans were Negroids