Our ancestors are black?

Question

WHAT IS YOUR REACTION/REFLECTION ABOUT THIS?? what are its connections/benifits to the community that we are living today.

Recently science has found that there may have been a big catastrophe in ancient times and that the whole of humanity is descended from one small African tribe that was just recently found. I saw the footage and it is amazing. These tribes-people all have characteristics of every race! white, black, Asian, Polynesian, Hispanic..all the cheekbones and eye structures and chins...all represented by this tribe and although I am not aware of any DNA tests it was amazing to see that the 6 billion people on Earth seem to all be descended from this tribe of like 100 people.

Answer 1

As I understand it, different races didn't start until 12,000 years ago. That's not very far back at all.

Answer 2

"In considering the tone of human skin in the long span of human evolution, Jablonski and Chaplin note that there is no empirical evidence to suggest that the human ancestors six million years ago had a skin tone different from the skin tone of today's chimpanzees—namely light-skinned under black hair."

Answer 3

i dont belive that s#hit

Answer 4

Do you have sources to go with that?

I'm pretty sure our ancestors -were- black... but why would the original tribe display phenotypes that were developed by living in a certain place for millions of years? Asian features are a result of adapting to conditions in Asia, after all...

Answer 5

Regardles of how much DENIAL, people of today may have, all human (Homo sapiens) DNA that exists today, can be traced to one central root. That root is the San Bushmen of Sub-Saharan Africa...

These people are a light-skinned brown. The darker ******* color, came from coastal & desert dwelling Africans, which developed later...

A tribe which migrated to Central Asia, and split, after a successful mutation in its population, 40,000 years ago, one headed east towards Mongolia (Mongoloid), and the other headed west towards the Caucassus Mountains (Caucasian), in Southern Russia, and eventually to Europe (Known as Cro-Magnon)...

Answer 6

I do not hold with the Out Of Africa Theory, and so, I have no black ancestors.  There are no Proto-humans, Apes, or Chimpanzees either in my family tree. Neither am I an evolutionist or a creationist, and I don't sit on the fence wondering who is right. I consider myself to be a well adjusted member of society, and I really do pity all you supposedly intelligent folk who argue and squabble over stuff that is irrelevant to our lives today. Why don't you all go and get a job, be a producer of some sort and earn your place amongst us real people.

Answer 7

Fits in directly to the 6 Adam (is it 6?) theory.

Answer 8

Very possible.  A couple of years ago while researching DNA testing services, I came across a website that guaranteed that they could trace your Mt-DNA back to one of 33 women who were founders of the present-day human race.  As far as a great die-off, I have read about that also, in science magazines and other reliable sources (Sources not pushing any particular agenda, just looking for the truth.).

Answer 9

Actually mitochondrial DNA traces us all back to one woman in Africa living about 160,000 years ago.  So its not surprising at all.

Answer 10

Yes, that is what they say; Peking man hung a right, caucasions hung a left, some stayed.

Maybe it's true.

*Having a bad day, Daffy?

Answer 11

Pete: "That root is the San Bushmen of Sub-Saharan Africa...

"  What the h**l?  Sure, they live in the area, sure, they are a very stipped down culture reminincent of what we might imagine ancestral man might have been, but you can't call them that, thats total nonesense.  Or did you just want to get your whole semester of Anthro 100 into one answer for the heck of it?  Hahaha.  Geez, you're the Q and A topdog, but you can't just make things up!  Your determination is admirable but theres tons of anomalies to your threory in carbon dating findings and other research.

Daffy: I ordered curly fries and these are garlic, there goes another tip.  If it wasn't for people like us, you'd still be the monkey you're so ashamed of in your family tree.

Answer 12

I have no proofs of what I believe, but I really do think that people are all originally from Africa, if that means we all have black ancestors, I'm not sure, I'm open to that idea though.

Could you tell us where you saw the footage??

Answer 13

The fossil evidence we have points pretty conclusively to an African origin.  The genetic evidence is even more conclusive.

Our species hit one billion only in the early 1800s hafter a HUGE population explosion, and that happened after the FIRST population explosion with agriculture, about ten thousand years ago.  Before then our population would have grown to the millions eventually, but probably stated out in the hundreds of thousands, so it's no wonder that we can trace our genes back to a small population.  It's also pretty unlikely that a small population of ancestors remained as a small, intact tribal group for tens if not hundreds of thousands of years in a remote corner of Africa.

Answer 14

Homo erectus ("Upright Man") was the first hominid to leave Africa. His existence dates from 1.6 million years ago to perhaps 200,000 years ago. However, recent discovers have suggested that isolated populations may have existed even later.

Early discoveries of Homo Eretus remains were variously named Peking Man, Java Man and Heidelberg Man. His range was all of Africa, most of Europe and as far East as China. Sites in California have been suggested as containing Homo erectus finds. No one had satisfactorily explained how the vast distance from China to California was crossed.

Homo eretus used stone tools made by the Acheuliam process. This mainly produced a hand ax, a fist sized piece of rock that tapered to a point. The hand ax was suitable to be used as an ax, a knife, scrapper, or to dig roots.

Have developed in Africa, Homo E was adapted to a hot climate. He was thin,  tall and no doubt black.

       It has been suggested that events in the past did reduce the human population to just a few individuals. However this was thousands of years ago.

Answer 15

Yes, our ancestors were black, from Africa.

As to the piece you refer to...Ain't never done went n seen that baby!