Were humans all black at one point?

Question

I have heard a theory that humans developed from apes into negroids and then as africa drifted apart the skin colours of humans changed due to climate change and the lack of travel over seas.Which is why you find most white people in cold parts of the world and darker people in hot parts of the world.

Answer 1

We didn't evolve from Negroes.  That is a common misconception about the "Out of Africa" theory.  It is likely that all modern humans are descended from a single "race" of Africans but they were no more Negroes than any other modern race even though they likely had darker skin from living in Africa.  The pigments keep the skin from burning but they also prevent vitamin D from forming.  Lighter skin allows a more ideal amount of that to be formed in higher latitudes.  The only thing you have wrong is the idea that light skin indicates younger races.  They are all the same distance from the common ancestors.

Answer 2

This could either be a very good or bad question.

People who believe in science and fact believe in evolution.

People who fallow religious practice believe in ADAM AND EVE. so you may get mixed responses to this question. I'm however neutral.lol

Answer 3

The closer you are to the equator, the more sun exposure you get... that's why (typically) people in hotter climates have darker skin. And yes, the first humans were in Africa and then they spread out to other parts of the world... so I suppose they all would have started out black.

Answer 4

I agree with you, I'm a off white in color but a member of the HIUMAN race.

Answer 5

The original people (Adam and Eve) would have had mid-brown skin. They had genetic information for both dark and pale skin.

Skin colour is determined by the amount of melanin produced - we are just different shades of brown depending on how much or little melanin we produce.  Pale people have lost the genetic information (through selection) for producing dark skin. Likewise dark people have lost the genetic information for pale skin.

There is no mystery about how this works. There is a good article here that explains it very clearly.

http://creationontheweb.com/images/pdfs/...

Answer 6

not so

Answer 7

Well, I don't buy into that whole evolution from apes bit. If that were the case, why haven't all the apes evolved? Scientifically, humans have evolved in appearance, both physically and mentally over the millions of years, however, our genetics have not changed. Humans and apes have a different amount of gene chromosome pairing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee_...

To answer your question about if all humans were "black at some point" - I don't think that they were. Most likely somewhere in the middle of black and white as we know it today. Some people developed lighter skin and some darker due to climate, sun exposure and so on. Also, the loss the hair that fully covered the body has factored into that as well. However, the best scientific proof given by archaeologist and carbon dating state that the earliest fossils of humans are from northern Africa and the Middle East, so I would assume that everyone started off looking similar to those who live in the region.

Answer 8

well, yes, they say we all evolved from Africa and we needed the pigment 4 protection against the sun