Is it true that most caucasians have African-American blood running through their veins from past ancestors?

Question

Just wondering. I heard it in one of those science channels...Discovery, maybe.

Just to clarify, I do mean African-Americans, as in the slaves that were brought into the US.

Answer 1

There is no one race that is 100% puree unless it is an isolated tribe in the middle of no where. We are all just a bunch of MUTTS. So, yes I think your statement has a very good chance that it is true.

Answer 2

Sort of. There is a general consensus that humans evolved in Africa and migrated to other parts of the world. The first humans,
being descendants of earlier humanoid primates (now extinct) that where relatively hairless, had dark skin for UV protection, and probably somewhat resembled modern Africans. Many of these peoples eventualy expanded across the whole globe, and developed lighter skin to allow enough UV light (which is damaging to the body in large amounts and is blocked out by melanin, the pigment which darkens human skin) into the body for the production of Vitamin D. Those humans who remained in Africa also changed over time to adapt better to the environment or just to look more attractive to prospective mates(and Homo Sapiens, particularly Europeans, may have interbreeded with Neandertals) . This produced the visible differences in appearance and stature that define the traditional concept of race. So while Europeans, Asians, Middle Easterners, Indians and Native Americans are not direct products of the modern African gene pool, the first humans did have the same general skin color as African-Americans, so if this is your definition of African-American, than yes, all Caucasians and members of other races are from African Americans, although otherwise there could be differences as "great" as, say, there are between Caucasians and Asians (though there is so much variation, even among the species from which we all decend, that this is still incredibly small.) .
Edit: And African Americans and Caucasians, have interbred, although not to the extent that every Caucasian American has an ancestor that was imported as slave.

Answer 3

Since the scientific evidence is ever more convincing that our race, homo sapiens, evolved in Africa and then spread out it is nearly 100% certain that all caucasians and everyone else on the planet has African blood running through their veins. I find it highly unlikey that all caucasians on the planet have African-American blood. There are some pretty remote areas in Asia where I find it unlikely at best that African-Americans could have mixed with the local genepool. Perhaps with the recent US involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq those populations have picked up some African-American genes and if the current foreign policy continues within one hundred years the caucasian population of the world might all have some African-American.

I have my genealogy back to 1550. No African-Americans so far.

Answer 4

Well, first, African-American is not the same thing as African. An African-American is an American of African ancestry or origin.

Assuming you mean African, I sort of doubt that, only because most Europeans from way back never even came into contact with Africans. Only in more modern times (relatively modern - like, in the last few hundred years), largely because of slavery taking Africans to the Americas and other Caucasian-populated areas, were the peoples actually cohabitating.

However, if you're talking waaay back, you'd need to research migratory patterns of prehistoric peoples - if what you heard is true, that's probably when it happened - thousands of years ago, long before countries or even continents as we know them today were established.

Answer 5

Hmm, Yes and No,

You see, African Americans is just a term to describe people living in the Americas of African descent. They are basically Africans, who happen to live in America.

The more the studies of genetics and human evolution advance, the more we realize that Africa is the original mother continent, the true place where all humanity started. Africa has the largest gene variation of any continent, and all of us, Northern Europeans, Mediterraneans, Asians, Native Americans, can be genetically traced to some ancient African ancestor.

Regarding more recent history in the USA, I would say that in places like the south, it is possible that many "white" people had a past relative that was "black", but genetically speaking, ALL of them, do have an ancient ancestor that was definitely 100% African.

Answer 6

I think what they are finding in genealogy DNA is everyone's DNA including Scandinavians goes back to Africa.

The difference in coloring is due to mutations. Some people could not survive in certain areas and died out. Our people were nomads at one time.

The sun is rich in Vitamin D. It has been found that the minumum amount of Vitamin D required by a Black African Native is the maximum amount of Vitamin D that someone of Northern European extraction should have. Actually they haven't found a maximum amount of Vitamin D for the Black African. People of black skin could not have survived in the past in Northern Europe. Today they can take Vitamin supplments. People of light skin would have had problems in tropical sun light constantly. Today we have better protective clothing and housing. As mutations took place some types of people died out in certain areas. Before Genealogy DNA it was thought these differences were brought on by natural selection.

Actually I believe some biologist in genealogy DNA have speculated that the human race might have begun from one single set of parents 100,000 years ago in Africa. They might eventually have a theory in opposition to strict evolutionist but not what Bible fundamentalist believe that it all began about 5000 years ago in what is now called Iraq.

Keep your mind open and be willing to learn.

Answer 7

do no longer take heed to each little thing you pay attention. MANY human beings have ancestry that immigrated from Europe on the end of the 1800s or early 1900s. i think of it must be much less high priced that African human beings who've been actual here interior the mid 1800s, would have caucasian historical past. i do no longer the different opposite course around is solid, in any know.

Answer 8

We are all out of Africa!
With male tracers in the DNA, it was possible to determine an area in east Africa as the birth place (50,000 years ago) of modern homo sapience sapience (there are other pre species, but they weren't as evolved).
Some of them left Africa 40,000 years ago and trolled along the shores lines to Asia, drifted in canoes all the way to Australia (20,000 years ago), went over the Bering street to America (18,000 years ago)
For some reason, a bunch of them went inland in Asia and turned around to go to Europe, where the met some Neanderthals around 20,000 years ago.
This guys developed the Caucasian features, because of the cold climate, like small, long straight noses, to warm up air before it got into the lungs. Life was super tough specially north of the alps.
When around 15,000 years ago, the first people settled in small farm villages, where now Iraq is, the northern Europeans still mainly hunted, fighting sable tooth tigers, huge Wolfe's and giant bears.
Because of the Alps and some other hills, rivers and deserts, Northern Europeans where pretty much among themselves, until they started to get in each others way and some took their bear hides and clambered back to Asia 10,000 years ago.
The Southern Europeans had throughout history always a little bit of intermingling with Africans, but we are all out of Africa.

Answer 9

I maybe, but to be technically any race you need to have an 1/8 (I think) so while I have indian blood I am only 1/16, so while many people probably have African American blood if doesn't make them black. I am sure a lot in the south do takes to the lovely pre-civil war period

Answer 10

I think everyone should go find some actual books written by authoritive-type people, not the PhD in history-type people written books.
E.g., read "Neanderthal's Necklace, In Search of the First Thinkers" by Juan Luis Arsuaga (a Spaniard, the world's leading athority on Neanderthals), "Red Earth, White Lies" and other such books.
Most of what people accept is just pure bonk, such as all humans "came out of Africa" or "all white people came from the Caucasus Mountains"
Neither statement is true.
There were white people more than 100,000 years ago in western Europe; there were ancient white people in North Aamerica, in the Great Lakes region when Christopher Columbus landed; the most ancient and original peoples of Japan were white.
Most of what is espoused is due to political correctness.
Having said all that, NO, most whites do NOT have blacks in their ancestry.
I do; but I also have ancestors who were Innuits, Eskimos, several (American) Indian tribes, from Siberia, China, Japan, the Philippines, Russia, several countries in Africa (more than 1,000 years ago), all over Europe, the Middle East, North and South America and Australia.
Consult the National Geographics Genotype to get an idea of human migrations.
Remember the famous Lucy, the one Dr. Leakey found in the Olduvai Gorge? In fact, she was a CHIMPANZEE! Of course, atheists claim that humans are descended from monkeys...
At any rate, your question suggests that white Americans have black slave blood. For me, I know it is not true: none of my ancestors had slaves in the American Colonies. Several of them came over as indentured servants...
I also know, through reading, that most other whites do not have slave blood. For one thing, the overwhelming majority of Americans came over in the very late 1800s through today. In other words, there just is no way for them to have slave blood in them!

Answer 11

You know what, whether people believe it or not, we are a mixed race. I mean the HUMAN race in general is a mixed race. So you're never, ever a full blown caucasian or african or asian or indian or whatever. And don't believe everything you see on T.V., no matter how credible the source is claimed to be. people make mistakes and they DO uncover those mistakes. then they take it back. then they theorize another possibility and blah blah blah. i'm going off on a ramble here, but that's basically it.