Where did the first white people evolve?

Question

I believe it was North Africa but I'm not sure.

Answer 1

The Berbers are probably ancestors of the Cro-Magnon, who flourished around the Mediterranean Basin, including the Canary Islands, and as far east as the Black Sea, which is where heavily-bearded, lighter-colored skin emerged & developed, during the past 40,000+ years, due to the variable, and often clouded climate, which sub-Saharan Africans didn't have the luxory of...

Answer 2

White skin is due to a completely different mutation (SLC24A5) than the albinism you see in Africa. The gene that gives Europeans very pale skin is thought to be about 8,000 years old, and originated from somewhere in North Eastern Europe. It does not affect hair and eye colour the way albinism does. It spread very quickly. Prior to that they were Caucasians, but more olive/tan skinned with no blond hair or blue eyes, as these are also young mutations about 10,000 years old. Paintings of blond Berbers are seen in Uan Muhuggiag dating back about 4,000 plus years, so that mutation must have spread very rapidly too.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/453196...

The early Caucasians developed somewhere between North East Africa, The Black Sea and Pakistan. We parted company with the east Asian population about 40,000 years ago in central Asia, and the African population probably about 100,000 years ago. One mutation for red hair goes back about 80,000 years, and some mutations for hazel, brown and green eyes seem similarly old, and brown hair seems ancient and widespread too.

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The first classically Caucasian shaped skull has been found at Mladec (Czech Republic), and dates to about 31,000 years old. Prior to that you get a mix of features, and you can't really see much difference between African skulls and European ones. The classic black African skull shape is pretty recent, it's first seen at about 13,000 years ago in the Jebel Sahaba cemetery in Nubia. Before that, they were more or less interchangeable, only the teeth were a giveaway.

http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2005/08/ear...

Answer 3

White skin has got nothing to do with race or genes. It has got everything to do with immigration though. All the black people who ever travelled from their native land to northern climes will be the descendants of tomorrows whites. Although that does not nessesarily mean that (all) whites came out of Africa.

Answer 4

It's when not a where!

Technically speaking "white" people are partial albinos?

You dont know albinism also occurs in Africa?

Chimps have skin colors ranging thru black to white and speckled and I suspect our ancestors also had variable skin colors but with dark skin predominating.

Paler skin became an advantage when humans reached cooler areas with long winters.

There were probably always lighter skinned hominids !

Answer 5

White skin is not an evolution but an adaptation. The farther north one goes, and the farther away from the equator, the less strong the sun is. Therefore people developed lighter skin to absorb more essential D vitamins from the sun, D vitamins that were much more easily absorbed by the darker skinned people of the south.

Answer 6

Europe was where white skin evolved.