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I was surprised to see the article state "The modern humans who came out of Africa to originally settle Europe about 40,000 years are presumed to have had dark
by giardini 9y ago
I was surprised to see the article state "The modern humans who came out of Africa to originally settle Europe about 40,000 years are presumed to have had dark skin, which is advantageous in sunny latitudes."
"presumed"??!!
I've always thought there was some scientific evidence for this and not mere presumption. Is there not some evidence about the skin coloration of our African ancestors of different periods?
- Profragile 9y agoNo, because there is NO WAY Europeans came directly from Africans. There is no similarity, no common language, nothing to suggest that there was a close relationship between Africans and Europeans. On the other hand, Europeans have much more similarity with certain Arabic tribes.
- freehunter 9y agoTo say the least, it's kind of difficult to scientifically prove the skin color of someone from 40,000 years ago. Fossilized bones don't tell you if someone was black or white or whatever. We're not even entirely sure what skin color ancient Egyptians had. Much of what we know about pre-history is educated guesses based on a tiny amount of evidence and a lot of critical thinking.
- IvanDraga 9y agoTheory "Out of Africa" is debunked for a quite a while already