Is it Possible for Pure Black People to be born with Caucasion Features without Having Caucasian Ancestry???

Question

My family are Nigerian (It's a West African country) immigrants, but I've noticed that the people on my mother's side of the family have thin lips, really light skin, colored hair and eyes. While on my father's side of the family they have natural wavy hair! My family doesn't look like the stereotypical African people you'll see on Dicovery Channel. Infact I've seen many Nigerians with Caucasian features such as light brown eyes, thin lips, pointy nose,light sandy skin and red, brown, and even blonde hair. My own hair is more of a light brown with a dark brown. Whenever I bring this up with my family they say that we're straight from Africa which means it's not possible for us to have white ancestry. I even looked up my last name on the internet and found out that it's an English last name. My dad even has an English first name! My parents excuse as well as many other Nigerians is that our people may be partially albino . I think this is a little bit more than albinoism...

Answer 1

These people dont know Africa is the home of humanity black people have the features of every race and exlusive for them as well these people watch TV and think they have seen Africa lol.

Im half  Khoikhoi but live in the UK so I was given an English name of course and that ethnic group is the oldest in Africa let alone the world only few live today and the ones called bushmen have kept their way of life all these centuries and not chosen to follow outside influence also meaning mixed race relationships have not occured with the current day bushmen.

Answer 2

DNA evidence backs up 'out-of-Africa' human origin theory

Genetic research unveiled  provides compelling support for the theory that anatomically modern humans rose out of Africa in the past 100,000 years and swept aside populations of prehistoric man, with no interbreeding.

A team of Chinese and American geneticists obtained blood samples from more than 12,000 men from across East Asia and examined characteristic DNA sequences called markers on the Y chromosome (the male chromosome).

The Y chromosome is considered one of the most powerful molecular tools for tracing human evolutionary history because it remains unchanged over eons when passed from father to son.

The researchers found that every one of the men could trace his ancestry to forefathers who lived in Africa over the past 35,000 to 89,000 years. They also found absolutely no genetic evidence that modern people, Homo sapiens, mated with archaic humans, Homo erectus, that already lived in Asia, having migrated from Africa about 1 million years ago.

The findings, appearing in the journal Science, appeared to confirm the so-called out-of-Africa theory that modern people originated in Africa about 100,000 years ago and then migrated outward, replacing Homo erectus around the globe.

"Our work not only provided the evidence that supports the out-of-Africa theory, but also showed that such a replacement is complete," human population geneticist Li Jin of Fudan University in Shanghai and the University of Texas in Houston, who led the study, said.

Li added that the absence of any genetic signature from archaic humans in the huge sample of men studied meant there was no support for the idea that Homo sapiens mated and produced babies with Homo erectus.

Asked about any evidence of interbreeding, Li said: "Zilch. None. Nada."

Some dissident scientists have expressed the view that people living today descended from several indigenous archaic human populations in the Old World, such as the Neanderthals who resided in Europe or so-called Java man or Peking man in Asia. This theory is called multiregionalism.

But the evidence is mounting against this view. Several studies have shown that modern human mitochondrial DNA, passed down by the mother, is of African origin. And when scientists sequenced the DNA from the mitochondria, tiny structures within a cell but outside the nucleus that contain genes, of a Neanderthal four years ago, they found it was vastly different from that seen in people today.

"The genetic evidence implies a recent common origin of our species. The Y chromosome really makes that argument bulletproof," Stanford University molecular biologist Peter Underhill, a study coauthor, said in an interview.

Li said the researchers devised a simple way to make the out-of-Africa theory a testable hypothesis. He said the team wanted to answer the question of whether there was any trace of Y chromosomes of non-African origin in East Asia, where Homo erectus and Homo sapiens fossils have been found in abundance.

The researchers screened 12,127 genetic samples from men in 163 populations from different regions in Asia - in such places as Iran, China, New Guinea and Siberia - for three specific Y chromosome mutations that are derived from a single earlier mutation seen in African populations.

All of them carried one of the three mutations, suggesting that archaic humans did not contribute to the origin of modern man. "All these people trace their roots back to a common ancestor who lived in Africa maybe 100,000 years ago," Underhill said.

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Answer 3

The simple answer's no.  European or other caucasion people have made their rounds around africa plenty of times over the years, and for what ever reasons good or bad have planted their "seed" in the native people's bloodline.  I'm certain by the traits you mentioned the there's European descent in your Bloodline.  If you have brothers you can have them take a Y-DNA test, or your dad, to see if your English surname is past down from an English Ancestor.  www.familydna.com is one of the places you can get that done.

Answer 4

After all these years and all these generations, you are unlikely to find a 'pure' anything. Straight from Africa doesn't mean no lighter-skinned people possible in the past. Explorers of all colors have pretty much been everywhere at some time or other, and they were rarely respectful of local peoples or customs.

Answer 5

There's no single Black Type

The Evolution of african races was subject to many changes and forces before they even got out of Africa. That would mean the development of features quite different from each other.

Maybe Nigerian-black is a race with a lot of plasticity, for evolutionary reasons. Humans in general are very plastic. From dark black to swede, to chinese means that the physionomical potential of humans is very wide. So it could be naturally occuring that nigerians may have features that are caucasian-like.

It could also be that genes from caucasians came into the nigerian genetic flow during the explorations and colonies, and they appear every once in a while. This could have happened way before the record of your family so you might not be as "pure" as you think. (note that i'm using pure in a strictly mendelian way).