From whom, what, or where did the black person originate from?

Answer 1

Humanity evolved in Africa If you live on the savanna and are hairless, you better have protection from the UV radiation of the sun. Having heavy amounts of melanin in your skin will do that.

As humanity moved out of Africa, the need to produce Vitamin D counterbalanced the need for UV protection. The evolutionary compromise led to the varying degrees of pigment in people's skins seen today.

Answer 2

Well....lets start back about lemme see a very very long time a go...i'm talking way back.

Our species (Homo Sapiens) started in Africa. With time our ancestors migrated all through out africa, india, australia, asia and finally europe...(mind you they have proof of this now...they have found a genetic marker in the chromosome that traces our origin to africa.)

anyways....why the variation in skin pigment?

The theory is not singular, but logical.

People living in tropical areas (along the equator and subtropics) tend to have darker skin...to compensate for the intense amount of sun.

Those living above the subtropics have lighter skin. Now the trend is not really that obvious anymore what with immigtation and stuff. However this stratification of skin pigments has been developed over thousands of year.

But what about the eskimos you ask? Well they are indeed the remenents of the last one who crossed the bering strait when it was an ice sheet...i hope yo get that.

anyways another reason for why we have these stratifications is because of the amount of Vitamin D that is distributed around the world. In tropical areas there is a high concentration of vitamin D (from the sun) so in order to compensate for this (too much D is bad for thee) the more melanin(creates color of skin) keeps out the excess of vitamin D. Now there isn't a lot of Vitamin D up in the northern hemisphere of the planet. Hence in order to compensate for the lack of vitamin D there is less melanin in the skin.

Hence there is a direct correlation between Vitamin D, Skin Pigment and Geography...

mind you this is still under much research but it seems like it is a plausible answer to why we have different pigments.


I would suggest you take a physical(science oriented) anthropology class.

hope i did't confuse you...there is so much more to this topic.

Answer 3

We all evolved in East Africa 6 million years ago. Slowly we as a speeches developed and spread out.

Around 100,000 years ago we had taken of the form we now are and were spreading out into other continents.

We evolved just a little more to fit the climate we now found ourselves in. Black skin is better for protection against some of the more harmful of the suns rays.

Answer 4

From another black person and let me add it's not bad in any way.