How long would it have taken for the human species to evolve into different races?

Question

I was recently reading about how the human species (Homo Sapiens) supposedly originated in Africa around 200,000 years ago. We've since spread out throughout the world, but I found myself wondering just how long it would have taken for a member of this (presumably uniform) species to evolve into one of the modern races (Latino, Nordic, Native American, etc) after moving into its respective area of the world.

I don't mean to sound racist here, but what I mean by "modern races" is that people from different parts of the world have physiological differences that are the result of adaptation to their surroundings (ie: black people have black skin in order to protect them from the UV rays of the harsh African sun). What I want to know is if there is any data about how long it would have taken for these adaptations to take place.

Thanks,

Phineas

Answer 1

I got a few questions for smartalec2

1. what race were Adam and Eve?

2. And how do we get all the different races of today from just the two of them?

3. Where was the Garden of Eden?

4. How come it took 6 days?

to answer your question I have no Idea just a dam long time.

Answer 2

omg great question, sorry i just had to leave a commment lol

Answer 3

I don't necessarily think that it is adaptation to the environment that accounts for the difference.  

It seems to me, and I am no expert by any stretch of the imagination, that there are varying degrees of evolution.  

If you accept evolution exists, note the present tense of the verb as evolution would still be ongoing, it seems to make sense that it would not be concurrent throughout the world.  It would not necessarily occur that Homo Sapiens appeared in Asia, Africa and Europe at the same time.  Or, if Homo Sapiens first appeared in one continent and then migrated to another, whatever led to the evolutionary differences would occur at different rates of speed.  It would only stand to reason that different variations would be more, and I choose my words carefully, further along on the evolutionary path than others.  Thus, for example, Negroids may have been through more evolutionary steps than caucasians, or vice versa.  

I don't know.  Just something I have thought about.  It seems more logical than saying that everyone has evolved at the same rate as we know science is not symmetric.

Answer 4

latino is not a race but we will look like aliens beings in 200,000years in my opinion

Answer 5

I dunno, ask Jesus.  

Answer 6

IF    A   AFRICAN    LEAVES    THAT  CONTINENT  FOR  THE  NORTH  POLE  IN  20,000   YEARS    HIS  SKIN  PIGMENT  WOULD  BE  AS  WHITE   CAUCASIAN  NOT  OF  HISPANIC.   THANK  YOU  D'S

Answer 7

Millions of years i suppose ;]

Answer 8

It was in the last 100,000 years.

"Homo sapiens were fully human. They were in Africa less than 200,000 years ago. Moving to the Middle East about 100,000 years ago, they then spread out across the world. They replaced the

Neanderthal and Homo erectus groups they met either by fighting or competing for food. When modern humans left Africa they began to develop the racial traits we see today by adapting to the new regions and climates. The first split in the human line took place about 100,000 years ago between groups that remained in Africa (ancestors to modern Blacks) and those who left Africa. Then about 40,000 years ago the group that left Africa divided once again, into the ancestors of today’s Whites and Orientals."

http://www.charlesdarwinresearch.org/Rac...

It's interesting to note that: "it is impossible to draw sharp lines between racial groups. Few if any populations are cut off from others, and even if laws, culture, and/or religion prohibit it, mating does take place. Characteristics of people change gradually from one geographic area to another; where across Central Asia do European "whites" leave off and Asian "yellows" begin? Anthropologists see races as temporary, changing phenomena,"

http://www.skepticreport.com/creationism...

Answer 9

smartale, you my friend are a MORON

Answer 10

maybe hundreds of years of isolation and inbreeding

earliest known man out of Africa is like Australia 40,000 years and in North America about 10,000 years

Answer 11

Well, it's all good if you are looking for a fairy tale... but we didn't evolve over millions of years.  We originated in the Garden of Eden, when God made Adam and Eve in His likeness... we were made, fully formed, to enjoy life and enjoy our Maker.

I'm sure you will find that data you are looking for.  We all have the will to choose what we will believe, trust in, and live our lifes around.

You and I were made with a purpose, by a God who is all knowing, all powerful, and every where at once.  We didn't evolve over millions of years... we were created.  You can see how by reading the Bible (look in the beginning--Genesis).

Answer 12

Probably millions of years.