We're ALL Black -- According to Geneticists! (Nov. 2002)
Reproduced in its entirety with permission. Editorial by Linda Beckerman, Ph.D.

Original Title: A Paler Shade of Black © Linda Beckerman, Ph.D.

The jig is up. Thanks to the genetics revolution we now know that there is no such thing as race. The Human Genome Project (HGP) has determined unequivocally that there is the same amount of genetic variation among individuals within a so called racial group as there is between individuals in different racial groups. What that means is that there is no real genetic difference between blacks and whites or between whites and Asians or between any of the so called races.

Wonder why it's been so hush-hush? I mean, you would think this would be big news. Certainly on the order of Galileo stating that the Earth goes around the Sun and not vice versa. But you haven't heard it on NBC or read it in your local newspaper. It's more or less kept within the high brow community as if the common every day man in the street just couldn't take it. So you can read about it in the Atlantic Monthly or New York Times, but not your home town newspaper. And some professors on ivory tower college campuses are scrambling to prove it isn't so, just like there some who argue that Darwin was a fruitcake and evolution a stunt he pulled to grab the limelight.
See Also: Down: Debunking 'Race'
July 30, 2005 New York Times Editorial:

Debunking the Concept of 'Race'
below.

But if we are all one race, which race are we? One answer is the cute one that we are the "human race". But buckle your seat belts folks, because the genetic answer is that we are all really black. And white people are pale adaptations of black people that evolved during the past 140,000 years.

From whence does this white skin come? Weren't we all taught that it was the black people who evolved black skin and it happened so they would be protected from getting skin cancer?

Forget it. Scientists have thrown the whole notion out. Here's how evolution works. If you don't live long enough to reproduce, your genes are lost to the gene pool forever. There being no high school back when Humans came into being, females started reproducing around the age of 13. Skin cancer develops later in life when the female has already reproduced and her genes have entered the world gene pool. Bye, bye skin cancer theory.

What scientists now believe is that everyone started out with dark skin in the first place because it is protective against absorbing too much Vitamin D, which is toxic. Too much vitamin D causes calcium to be pulled from the intestines and bones and deposited in soft tissues all over the body, damaging the kidneys, heart and blood vessels. Dark skin screens out UV radiation and your body, which uses UV to produce Vitamin D, produces less of it - a real evolutionary advantage at the lower latitudes where we began.

So where did the 10,000+ shades of paler brown, beige, pink, white and what Crayola crayons used to call "flesh" come from? Archaeological data places the origin of genetically modern humans in sub-Saharan Africa approximately 140,000 years ago. Humans then began migrating out of Africa in successive waves, starting approximately 100,000 years or 5000 generations ago. Now that scientists have mapped the human genome, they are homing in on when each wave began their outward bound journey and where they migrated to. So far they have confirmed that everyone on the entire planet, even the 1.3 billion Chinese, have a common ancestor back in Africa.

For example, the first wave appears to have been a migration to the Middle East and then eastward and northward from there. Some geneticists studying the human genome map believe that in a later north moving wave, which occurred about 60,000 years ago, a mere 50 people inbred together across successive generations to create all the people who now occupy Europe (excluding recent immigrants, of course).

But wait a minute, I have blond hair, blue eyes and my hair isn't nappy and I don't have thick lips. So how can my great, great, etc grandpappy be a black African? It's all from lines of genetic inheritance splitting apart and then coming together again.

Lines of genetic inheritance, or lineages, split apart when there is a mutation that is evolutionarily advantageous, meaning the mutation makes it more likely for someone to reproduce greater numbers of offspring that survive. Someone with a non advantageous mutation has offspring that are less likely to survive.

So as humans migrated out of Africa, why did dark skinned people start losing the genetics Powerball Lottery to their paler kin? Lower UV levels in the sunlight of the more northern latitudes meant a dark skinned individual's body could not produce enough Vitamin D. Insufficient Vitamin D would then result in a child developing rickets. A child with rickets would not likely reproduce either because it would die before it could or because its pelvis would be so deformed it could not pass a child through the birth canal. Its genes would be lost forever. So lighter skin, and more absorption of Vitamin D at higher latitudes would be an adaptive genetic advantage.

Interestingly, in high latitudes where some people still retain dark skin, such as with the Inuit in the Arctic, the people obtain significant amounts of Vitamin D from eating fish and sea mammal blubber.

Seal blubber aside, what about all the other features that make us look so different? Mutations that endure are often advantageous to specific climates. For example, the tall thin body of the Masai warrior dissipates heat while the short squat body of the Inuit retains it. Long northern European noses moisten and warm the air before it reaches lungs, while in Africa short noses remain because the air is already moist and warm. The Asian's eyelid folds protect their eyes against dry sandy desert winds and wind driven snow. In the far north, light sensitive blue eyes allow people to see better when it is dark much of the year. The tightly coiled hair of the African keeps the hair off his neck so he remains cooler. All these diverse physical features promote the promulgation of different lines of inheritance, or ethnic lineages.

Countering this splitting apart of ethnic lineages is the melding through interbreeding between different ethnic lineages. If you walk the Silk Road from Persia to China, across the southern flank of Asia, you will see a continuum of physical feature change. You will not be able to tell where the European look ends and the Asian begins. Remember all those shots during our assault on the Taliban in Afghanistan and the TV scans of Afghani children? How many looked European and how many looked Asian?

Many mechanisms for melding ethnic lineages have been at play. The rape part of the plunder and pillage drill by invaders, traders passing through with silver to buy bedtime favors, marriages for political convenience to form alliances between not so friendly tribes, and the boy and girl from neighboring tribes sneaking out for a little tryst under the stars, have all contributed to the recombining of diverse ethnic lineages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr3YOr_vlb0
So what we have instead of the meaningless terms Caucasian, Negro, Asian, etc, is a large multiplicity of ethnic lineages, all of whom descended from a only a single black race. So don't forget, next time you fill in the U.S. Census you should write in the word Black next to the question about your race, regardless of your shade of pale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxI_zWktzH8

Ok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLoel5EKT34

https://answersingenesis.org/racism/adam-eve-all-skin-tones/

Does that explain why we are still backward?

DaudaAbu:
Does that explain why we are still backward?

astonishingly, it does!

I mean, of course it does, IF the post above is true then it makes sense that we're all basically black and as such, each feature that is unique to each race is a result of adaptation. Therefore, intelligence should also be a result of this, and it makes sense:

intelligence is the ability to learn fast, adapt to new stimuli and find patterns quickly.

From this definition, it's pretty obvious that people who migrated would need to be more intelligent than their peers who stayed home. In the face of changing climate, new fauna, diverse terrain, and deadly new plants, stupidity would select itself out, only the smartest ones would be able to figure out how to keep adapting to their new world.

What immediately follows is war. Clans and tribes fighting, first over resources, then over territory, then just for the rush, and in this case as well, only the smartest clans would win out. Back in Africa, food was plentiful(sort of) territories were marked out by natural features such as rivers and thick forests, and nothing changed for millenia! Of course we turned out dumber. Our ancestors did the same thing for thousands of years and it worked, of course, their descendants would tend to blindly stick to what they knew and hope things would turn out better.

Again, closely tied to intelligence is curiousity, which I guess is what would propel anyone to leave their comfort zone and explore, so here we're looking at a race with curious ancestors, who were naturally selected for intelligence, versus a race with ancestors who were comfortable and who never had to come up with new ideas to save their own lives.

When you look at it that way, the fact that the true blacks, us, have been able to almost catch up with the rest off the world in less than two centuries is amazing, given the fact that our ancestors primed us for repititive tradition and lazy consumerism.

Teempakguy:
astonishingly, it does!

I mean, of course it does, IF the post above is true then it makes sense that we're all basically black and as such, each feature that is unique to each race is a result of adaptation. Therefore, intelligence should also be a result of this, and it makes sense:

intelligence is the ability to learn fast, adapt to new stimuli and find patterns quickly.

From this definition, it's pretty obvious that people who migrated would need to be more intelligent than their peers who stayed home. In the face of changing climate, new fauna, diverse terrain, and deadly new plants, stupidity would select itself out, only the smartest ones would be able to figure out how to keep adapting to their new world.

What immediately follows is war. Clans and tribes fighting, first over resources, then over territory, then just for the rush, and in this case as well, only the smartest clans would win out. Back in Africa, food was plentiful(sort of) territories were marked out by natural features such as rivers and thick forests, and nothing changed for millenia! Of course we turned out dumber. Our ancestors did the same thing for thousands of years and it worked, of course, their descendants would tend to blindly stick to what they knew and hope things would turn out better.

Again, closely tied to intelligence is curiousity, which I guess is what would propel anyone to leave their comfort zone and explore, so here we're looking at a race with curious ancestors, who were naturally selected for intelligence, versus a race with ancestors who were comfortable and who never had to come up with new ideas to save their own lives.

When you look at it that way, the fact that the true blacks, us, have been able to almost catch up with the rest off the world in less than two centuries is amazing, given the fact that our ancestors primed us for repititive tradition and lazy consumerism.

Bros this is your assertions is wrong, the black man is not in anyway duller than his white counterpart at least not scientifically, yes blackman gave humanity to the world and yes the black man is backward in terms of development, but the story wasn't always so. About 1500 to 1000 years ago when most of Europe was in a shamble, when they were nothing more than a group of clans fighting against one another, in Africa there were well established kingdoms.

Blakjewelry:

Bros this is your assertions is wrong, the black man is not in anyway duller than his white counterpart at least not scientifically, yes blackman gave humanity to the world and yes the black man is backward in terms of development, but the story wasn't always so. About 1500 to 1000 years ago when most of Europe was in a shamble, when they were nothing more than a group of clans fighting against one another, in Africa there were well established kingdoms.

I'm trying to understand the humanity thing. Are you by chance, referring to the cradle of civilization?

Bottomline: mutation, adaptation and evolution played a role in giving us diverse genes.

Blakjewelry:

Bros this is your assertions is wrong, the black man is not in anyway duller than his white counterpart at least not scientifically, yes blackman gave humanity to the world and yes the black man is backward in terms of development, but the story wasn't always so. About 1500 to 1000 years ago when most of Europe was in a shamble, when they were nothing more than a group of clans fighting against one another, in Africa there were well established kingdoms.

bro, my post follows from the OP.

Besides, those ages were known as the dark ages and signify a period when europe was most like africa-stagnant, due to lack of stimulation.

Prior to the dark ages, europe had the most impressive assortment of kingdoms and intellectual achievements that dwarfed african kingdoms which existed a millenium later.

Also, scientifically, the IQ test is the most advanced scientific method of assessing intellect today and even by that measure, whites win by a huge margin.

Teempakguy:
bro, my post follows from the OP.

Besides, those ages were known as the dark ages and signify a period when europe was most like africa-stagnant, due to lack of stimulation.

Prior to the dark ages, europe had the most impressive assortment of kingdoms and intellectual achievements that dwarfed african kingdoms which existed a millenium later.

Also, scientifically, the IQ test is the most advanced scientific method of assessing intellect today and even by that measure, whites win by a huge margin.

First off Prior to the so the so called dark age the greater part of Europe was in shamble. Where most of the activities was happening was in the middle east asin moving away from Africa which is the cradle of modern man toward Europe. Most of the actions in Africa were either not recorded due to the most premitive form of writing or lost to time. Egypt and Mesopotamia has one of the earliest forms of writing that is not to say there are no other form of writing that predate theirs
Again I will say it when the greater part of Europe was not organized there has well established kingdoms in Africa.
On the iq thingy, if the so called iq thing matter alot when it comes to the practical aspect, I think people with the highest iq will be the most successful people in the world but experience has shown otherwise

Feraz:
I'm trying to understand the humanity thing. Are you by chance, referring to the cradle of civilization?

Bottomline: mutation, adaptation and evolution played a role in giving us diverse genes.

The earliest ancestors to the human race were a little more like animals, but the first real bloodline of modern first appeared in Africa. Most of the stone age to bronze age was mostly not recorded, have you wondered why most of bronze work discovered in Africa were done without outside contact, or how they use iron for war and farming tools? These experiences were carried along as they traveled towards the Middle East. In fact no people can claim absolute knowledge because every civilization is and improvement or another civilization or should I say another people's work.
Do you know that the ancient Benin kingdom was well established before the white came and the Great wall surrounding the kingdom is almost in size to the great China wall.

Blakjewelry:

First off Prior to the so the so called dark age the greater part of Europe was in shamble. Where most of the activities was happening was in the middle east asin moving away from Africa which is the cradle of modern man toward Europe. Most of the actions in Africa were either not recorded due to the most premitive form of writing or lost to time. Egypt and Mesopotamia has one of the earliest forms of writing that is not to say there are no other form of writing that predate theirs
Again I will say it when the greater part of Europe was not organized there has well established kingdoms in Africa.
On the iq thingy, if the so called iq thing matter alot when it comes to the practical aspect, I think people with the highest iq will be the most successful people in the world but experience has shown otherwise

okay. It's alright to have different views on a subject.

[quote author=Teempakguy post=63956714]astonishingly, it does!

I mean, of course it does, IF the post above is true then it makes sense that we're all basically black and as such, each feature that is unique to each race is a result of adaptation. Thce should also be a result of this, and it makes sense:

intelligence is the ability to learn fast, adapt to new stimuli and find patterns quickly.

From this definition, it's pretty obvious that people who migrated would need to be more intelligent than their peers who stayed home. In the face of changing climate, new fauna, diverse terrain, and deadly new plants, stupidity would select itself out, only the smartest ones would be able to figure out how to keep adapting to their new world.

What immediately foland tribes fighting, first over resources, then over territory, then in this case as well, only the smartest clans would win out. Back in Africa, food wes
Respect U Brop! Wat A Genius U R! But B Ready To Take Peeps Insults

Blakjewelry:

The earliest ancestors to the human race were a little more like animals, but the first real bloodlinred in Africa. Most of the stone age to bronze age was mostly not recorded, have you wondered why most of bronze work discovered in Africa were done without outside contact, or how they use iron for war and farming tools? These experiences were carried along as they traveled towards the Middle East. In fact no people can claim absolute knowledge because every civilization is and improvement or another civilization or should I say another people's work.
Do you know that the ancient Benin kingdom was well established before the white came and the Great wall surrounding the kingdom is almost in size to the great China wall.

Why Is The Benin Wall Now Down? Wat Technologies Did We Invemt In Africa? If We Are Inteligent ,why Did We Get Slavedp? I Agree Wit The Opinion Dat We R Backward By Nature! Was There Electricity In The Benin? B4 Whites Came?

Axiwaju:

Why Is The Benin Wall Now Down? Wat Technologies Did We Invemt In Africa? If We Are Inteligent ,why Did We Get Slavedp? I Agree Wit The Opinion Dat We R Backward By Nature! Was There Electricity In The Benin? B4 Whites Came?

to answer your first question, it was pillage my the European.
now to your second question, what formula did the Egyptians use in building the pyramid, what formula or tech did ancient Benin use in building the great wall and it moat which is considered one the biggest man made work, how did the ancient Benin and Yoruba kingdom able to achieved such skilled art work such as the bronze head, check your history book ancient kingdom which can achieve that feat at that era was regarded as highly civilize.
the reason I am bringing this up is, knowledge is pass from one generation to another. scientifically, it is know that humans migrated from Africa toward the middle east which is regarded as the cradle of civilization with knowledge already acquired and that knowledge is past to the middle east, that knowledge is modified and pass to Europe and America.
on your question of slavery, slavery has been with man right from time immemorial read your history book or even your bible.
lol your question on light is funny, when the Europeans first visited Africa they too was in darkness, they have to burn oil

Teempakguy:
okay. It's alright to have different views on a subject.

you know I always stand on the side of science and not base on how I feel.
Africa Is backward not because of our biological lacking but Base on physical factors you can prove me wrong

Feraz:
I'm trying to understand the humanity thing. Are you by chance, referring to the cradle of civilization?

Bottomline: mutation, adaptation and evolution played a role in giving us diverse genes.

the cradle of civilization is the middle east and that is hundreds of thousands of years after a lot has happened in Africa which are unwritten history. most of transition phase take place in Africa except you want to follow the Bible view

to set the record straight the white man brain is no bigger than black mans brain.
the key reason why we are backward technologically is because of lack of stimuli, like I told somebody show Nigerians that there is money to be made from tech and you will have a rush. right now everybody wants to go into the entertainment world because they believe there is money to be made.
let we science heads get rich in Nigeria via stuff he made and see the rush.
secondly the lack investment in science related my individuals, Tesla has spend billions of dollars into the electric m
car which is yet to hit the road and most of the money came from private individual, but in Nigeria, nobody want to take risk they prefer already established business

Teempakguy:
astonishingly, it does!

I mean, of course it does, IF the post above is true then it makes sense that we're all basically black and as such, each feature that is unique to each race is a result of adaptation. Therefore, intelligence should also be a result of this, and it makes sense:

intelligence is the ability to learn fast, adapt to new stimuli and find patterns quickly.

From this definition, it's pretty obvious that people who migrated would need to be more intelligent than their peers who stayed home. In the face of changing climate, new fauna, diverse terrain, and deadly new plants, stupidity would select itself out, only the smartest ones would be able to figure out how to keep adapting to their new world.

What immediately follows is war. Clans and tribes fighting, first over resources, then over territory, then just for the rush, and in this case as well, only the smartest clans would win out. Back in Africa, food was plentiful(sort of) territories were marked out by natural features such as rivers and thick forests, and nothing changed for millenia! Of course we turned out dumber. Our ancestors did the same thing for thousands of years and it worked, of course, their descendants would tend to blindly stick to what they knew and hope things would turn out better.

Again, closely tied to intelligence is curiousity, which I guess is what would propel anyone to leave their comfort zone and explore, so here we're looking at a race with curious ancestors, who were naturally selected for intelligence, versus a race with ancestors who were comfortable and who never had to come up with new ideas to save their own lives.

When you look at it that way, the fact that the true blacks, us, have been able to almost catch up with the rest off the world in less than two centuries is amazing, given the fact that our ancestors primed us for repititive tradition and lazy consumerism.

Expect a certain moniker called Ross...ki to quote you and insult you. Wait for it! But I see your point.

Blakjewelry:

the cradle of civilization is the middle east and that is hundreds of thousands of years after a lot has happened in Africa which are unwritten history. most of transition phase take place in Africa except you want to follow the Bible view

You know, I initially thought the cradle was Egypt till I read that Mesopotamia is; hence why I asked that question.

Well, I agree about the unwritten history.

BTW, technically, I don't think it's a wall but a moat. I am talking about the Benin structure.

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Feraz:


You know, I initially thought the cradle was Egypt till I read that Mesopotamia is; hence why I asked that question.

Well, I agree about the unwritten history.

BTW, technically, I don't think it's a wall but a moat. I am talking about the Benin structure.

Egypt and Mesopotamia has one of the oldest form of written history.
And the ancient Benin kingdom was has a wall and a moat. The wall was thought to be bigger than the China wall until some adjustments were made recently you can Google search

cocolacec:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLoel5EKT34

https://answersingenesis.org/racism/adam-eve-all-skin-tones/

The direct ancestor of modern humans and other archaic humans was HOMO-ERECTUS. He looked like this:

http://c8.alamy.com/comp/ETMNR4/depiction-of-a-homo-erectus-next-to-a-homo-erectus-skull-for-comparison-ETMNR4.jpg


This is the first modern man recreated dated 300 000 years and found in Morocco:
https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-960d940c4f3af82a01abfa0957c5156a

This is a Neanderthal:
https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-405570459517a838fa0e1bab35a10a93-c

This is the First European who was a Neanderthal/Modern human mix (just like all Eurasians) Asians also carry Denisovan DNA.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Cro-Magnon_man_rendered.jpg

Negroids are only 8000 years old:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asselar_man