young_reezy;894137 said:
i've heard that explination before but the thing is if climate and diet were the only constructs to a group of people turning white over a vast period of time, it would still be happening.
the reason why i say selective breeding among other things is because if a white person and their off spring continues to interbreed with dark skinned people from africa, their off spring would no longer be white.
Andddd...... You have millions and millions of people in the world white light skin who have dark skinned traits? I doubt it was selective breeding at first. We were all black, maybe not hella dark but our skin was dark. Our ancestors moved throughout the world during pangea. Once we moved around, it took a long time but the giant group of land separated. Thus groups were divided. Over another 100,000 years generations wouldn't remember, oh we used to be black. So when we learned to build ships and travel because suddenly we found out the Earth wasn't flat and we wouldn't fall off by traveling the seal, we began to reacquaint. The problem now was evolution of pigments has begun to run its course and people began having different skin tones. People at that time had no clue about Melanin or Vitamin's, they thought a god created everyone different. Christianity preached the white man was god. Certain sectors of Islam claim god is black. It all came to that point and then selective breeding took place.
Africa - Black, A lot of sun = Melanin remaining + 9 Ether hair
Europe - White began to start, blacks were still on the southern parts. Earliest peoples who began to have lighter pigments mated with those who had large amounts of melanin. That in turn is what some modern Arabs are. Darker skin + straight hair.
North America - Had fish not been a main entree, had they not had loads of Vitamin D to counter that change, they would be black as Africans. They had a slight pigment change but retained a good bit Melanin through eating certain Vitamins. Thus you get darker Native Americans, but alot have straight hair.
South America - Inhabited by first blacks like everywhere else. Those outside of the forests were in high temperatures and sunlight, remained dark. Jungles were very hot and wet, they retained Melanin to combat this. South Americans = Dark Skin, 9 Ether hair strands.
And it is still happening. Ill go look it up n post it but I read a study somewhere a few months ago that showed over the last 50 years Blacks in Europe were beginning to lose percentages of Melanin and the White people in Africa were gaining Melanin. It was only like a 0.4% change, but thats only a 50 year period. The rate may still be the same, it may be slowed down. One factor to it slowing down is because we have adapted and dont need to rapidly change any longer. If you put a white girl in a tanning bed every week from the time she's 10 til the time shes 30 her skin will begin to naturally be darker and darker.
Obviously the Evolution theory has things that you can question, their may be answers better explaining what I'm trying to. Not an expert in the field or claim to be. But to me there is no other explanation that seems logical to me. If you think from the very beginning we were all different skin tones I'd like to know why you think this, and what you theory is on how it started.
If God just placed us all here separatly, how come we didn't fight over skin color like we do now. Why are their no depictions of white colored skin in African paintings until far after Europeans began to turn lighter?