If all races have evolved from Black Africans, are they not therefore the least evolved race?

Question

If all races have evolved from Black Africans, are they not therefore the least evolved race?

Answer 1

There are no gradations in human evolution.  The changes that took place as a result to the adaptation to the various environments is not an 'improvement' but simple adaptation.

The Caucazoid, the *******, and the Mogoloid are all equivalent in development, there is no least evolved member of the human race.

Answer 2

That is with the assumption that the black Africans are the same as now as they were in the beginning. We don't really know WHAT the first black Africans were like now, do we?

Answer 3

Maybe not, as evolution is concern, it only mean that they are the most adapted to their environment. And since we become white over time, how do you know if black did not evolved in the mean time?

This question is not well articulated, evolutionally speaking, there is no superiority, just adaptability...

Answer 4

no, because the other "colours" of people have migrated to other parts of the world, which is one of the reasons they look different because through evolution, interaction and adaptation with the environment happened throughout the time which affected our looks. (note: i mean looks).

However, there's is no "the least evolved race" because "race" is invented! people create the dichotomy and knowledge to build their own identity by contrasting themselves and the others. for an example, the race "black" is invented out of the interest to contrast with the "civilised" white.

saying of the "civilisation", people view Black Africans as backward because of the myth that to be civilised, you have to be advanced in technology and all sorts of materialistic thinkings. this is just an imposed definition of "civilisation" onto people from the other cultures who don't hold the same view. to them, "civilisation" might be something else. so we can't judge the other people on our own terms.

Answer 5

As others have noted, all ethnic groups have evolved over time. The differences seen in wealth accumulation and economic development are environmental and historical and have virtually nothing to do with the innate capacities of each group. The Ghana empire, for example, in West Africa, was a center of learning that attracted many Europeans during its heyday in the Middle Ages.

European economic "superiority" is largely a recent phenomenon in historical terms, due to technological development spurred by population growth and deforestation and the need to replace wood with coal as energy source. As shallow coal fields were mined out, machines were needed to get to deeper deposits, for example, forcing the need for ever more complex technological development.

Colonialism was another factor. Just look at the difference between Indonesia and Japan, two countries that had similar development trajectories until colonialization impoverished Indonesia and the refusal of colonialization permitted Japan to take off.

As Richard G. Wilkinson has argued in his authoritative "Poverty and Progress", economic development is simply the escape route of societies caught in the ecological pincers of population growth and scarce resources.

Answer 6

No.  

1)  Human "race" is not a valid biological concept.  We are far more alike than we are different.

2)  We've all been evolving for the same amount of time.

They haven't just been sitting still for the past several thousand years.

Answer 7

All humans have continued to evolve since the first people developed in Africa.  Africans have excelled in many different fields and are as evolved as any other people.

Answer 8

Least evolved?

All human  "races" today have had the same length of time to adapt to the environments they exist in.

The only way one "race" could be "least" evolved is if their environment, genetics, and culture had not changed at all...

...but we all know that that's not the case.

Answer 9

You have a linear, progressive view of evolution that is dead wrong. It is not a race, as it is more a question of local adaption to environment.

Answer 10

First off I am a young black male.

I admit African people are the less evolved.

But if it were not for us no other races would exist.

If it were not for white people we wouldn't have technology.

So you see we have all helped each other in some way.

Answer 11

The last few answers are the ones you should pay closest attention to. Evolution is often confounded with improvement, which is just incorrect.