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Were the first human beings dark or light skinned

Just as there is evidence that a few thousand years back the ancestors of Europeans were dark skinned, there is also evidence that the ancestors of west Africans of over twenty thousand years ago were light skinned. Neanderthal DNA content in west African groups like the Yoruba is enough evidence of at least some ancient light skinned ancestors. Therefore the claim by Afrocentrists and etc that the first human beings were dark skinned may not hold water. Dark skinned groups sometimes give birth to unpigmented or light skinned offsprings who are albinos while the reverse is not the case for light skinned groups and this is a strong case for the first human beings being light skinned.
A big reason why some people insist that the earliest human beings were dark skinned is because on our planet and indeed on any inhabitable planet, the most ancient civilizations are of dark skinned people because these civilizations often occur in tropical or near tropical zones where the sun is harshest. The people of those tropical or near tropical lands are bound to be dark skinned overtime even if they were not so at the beginning because their lands were the first to become free of ice or inhabitable. Africa was inhabitable before Europe, all other things being equal.

In conclusion, the color that the first human beings were is indeterminate because the fact that black people give birth to albinos give strength to the notion that the first humans were white while the fact that the most ancient civilizations are of dark skinned people give strength to the notion that the first human beings were dark.

They will be light skinned because the weather was cold

I don't get u

How is black giving birth to albino equals to the first humans being white...

Please elucidate

illicit:
I don't get u

How is black giving birth to albino equals to the first humans being white...

Please elucidate

We give birth to babies that resemble our ancestors. I am not saying it is a final proof though but it is a bit strong

Dark-skinned, of course.

Even after moving out of Africa and settling in temperate regions, all humans everywhere remained dark-skinned until relatively recently. Light skin only evolved about 8,000 years. That's like "yesterday" in the grander chronological scheme of things.

lawani:
Therefore the claim by Afrocentrists and etc that the first human beings were dark skinned may not hold water. Dark skinned groups sometimes give birth to unpigmented or light skinned offsprings who are albinos while the reverse is not the case for light skinned groups and this is a strong case for the first human beings being light skinned.

Bros, did you think this your argument through at all? If dark-skinned people can produce unpigmented babies (ie., very light-skinned offspring), but unpigmented light-skinned groups cannot produce dark-skinned offspring, that would simply mean that if the first humans were light-skinned then all humans today will be light-skinned, since by your own argument light-skinned groups cannot produce dark-skinned offspring, but dark-skinned groups can produce light-skinned offspring.

Your argument defeats itself. Be taking time to examine your thoughts for loopholes. Don't be in a rush to post.

RedboneSmith:
Bros, did you think this your argument through at all? If dark-skinned people can produce unpigmented babies (ie., very light-skinned offspring), but unpigmented light-skinned groups cannot produce dark-skinned offspring, that would simply mean that if the first humans were light-skinned then all humans today will be light-skinned, since by your own argument light-skinned groups cannot produce dark-skinned offspring, but dark-skinned groups can produce light-skinned offspring.

Your argument defeats itself. Be taking time to examine your thoughts for loopholes. Don't be in a rush to post.

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You are not correct because whatever a group is, they became it overtime due to the nature of their habitat.

lawani:
Were the first human beings dark or light skinned

Just as there is evidence that a few thousand years back the ancestors of Europeans were dark skinned, there is also evidence that the ancestors of west Africans of over twenty thousand years ago were light skinned. Neanderthal DNA content in west African groups like the Yoruba is enough evidence of at least some ancient light skinned ancestors. Therefore the claim by Afrocentrists and etc that the first human beings were dark skinned may not hold water. Dark skinned groups sometimes give birth to unpigmented or light skinned offsprings who are albinos while the reverse is not the case for light skinned groups and this is a strong case for the first human beings being light skinned.
A big reason why some people insist that the earliest human beings were dark skinned is because on our planet and indeed on any inhabitable planet, the most ancient civilizations are of dark skinned people because these civilizations often occur in tropical or near tropical zones where the sun is harshest. The people of those tropical or near tropical lands are bound to be dark skinned overtime even if they were not so at the beginning because their lands were the first to become free of ice or inhabitable. Africa was inhabitable before Europe, all other things being equal.

In conclusion, the color that the first human beings were is indeterminate because the fact that black people give birth to albinos give strength to the notion that the first humans were white while the fact that the most ancient civilizations are of dark skinned people give strength to the notion that the first human beings were dark.

Mr Man, the first humans were not only black, but were black for over 190,000 years before albino races emerged 7 or 8 thousand years ago.

The entire world was black. Fully populated by black Africans.

All of Europe was black.

The entire Asia was black.

The Americas, Australia, everywhere was black.

Okay?

In fact let me show you cave paintings from China, India etc. You will see that the first settlers and rulers of all those places were our African ancestors who migrated there thousands of years ago and began civilisation.

Dunhuang Caves China
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f3/87/c2/f387c2360c82f5bc3e8453e21eab68c7.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/77/49/da/7749da39d70987569c3d12ffde787ab7.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/e1/8a/06/e18a06838f86acd102ff233ef44df532.jpg

The first Indians were BLACKS FROM ANCIENT ETHIOPIA

Ellora Caves, India
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/6d/14/ea/6d14ea33673f6b90dca212a3309abbc0.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/28/66/f6/2866f674192ad9bbb564c6872287a0bd.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/0a/8b/a6/0a8ba680ddbec9b14f81f86dbee40994.jpg

Of course first humans were dark brown.

It was as a result of numerous DNA manipulations, experiments and altering by the Ones who came from the sky, that resulted into different skin colours.