For that matter, that complexion also likely evolved with clothes, and people in a sufficiently distant past may have looked quite different. The idea of people

For that matter, that complexion also likely evolved with clothes, and people in a sufficiently distant past may have looked quite different. The idea of people looking just like us living without clothes or shelter, presumably like some depiction of Eden, is fanciful. I am reminded that, in addition to not going about stark naked, mesolithic humans in the British isles were dark skinned.