If you go back far enough in your family tree the number of ancestors equals the population of the world at that time so you’re really related to everyone else
Human skin likely started as pale. Darker skin evolved in response to loss of full body hair coverage. Technically, we all probably have both, unless some of those pale folks migrated away before exposure to the sun darkened our skin. In reality, I’m not sure we know for sure, but I’m pretty sure it really doesn’t matter all that much since we’re all human in the end.
That’s not really how genetics work. We share a common ancestor who would be like neither. They likely had dark skin but would not match the modern day ‘black’ ethnicity associated with sub-saharan Africa.
That’s assuming that humans primordial Ethiopian ancestor qualifies as ‘black’. Current black people are no less removed from them genetically than non black people are, and genetic diversity in sub Saharan Africa is greater than in other places.
Someone’s ancestors were dumb for not using sunscreen. Just poor planning on their part but unlocking the hidden achievement character is cool ig. Don’t have to worry about grabbing sun resistance for the later floors.
"That doesn’t mean you get to say that word, or wear a durag…no the last thing isn’t a race thing, you just /cannot/ pull that off when you mix it with a pair of dockers and a polo shirt."
My understanding is that many scientists believe that the people migrating out of Africa weren’t necessarily dark skinned in the way that we associate with black people today – that Africans developed "black" skin at some point after people had already migrated out of Africa.
Theories say that a lot of people at the time of migration would have had some kind of medium light brownish color skin, a color shade that might have been comparable to something between modern Middle Easterners and Indians.
The variation in skin color – whether the "white" skin in Europe, the " yellow" skin in Asia, the "red" skin in the Americas, or even the "black" skin in Africa would have developed/evolved among each of these groups of people separately after they were already apart from one another.
Some other recent gene research evinces the possibility that the different genes for a variety of skin colors may have existed among the early people in Africa even before the migrations, and those already-existing genetic differences only became magnified after thousands of years of racial isolation after migration.
It should be worth Noting: If we do assume that humans evolved from a common ancestors to chimpanzees, then consider the fact that a chimpanzee’s skin color is fairly pale underneath all it’s body hair. That seems to indicate that humans may not have all "started out black", but instead may have all started out pale.
Despite some of these modern theories, there are still many scientists that do still believe that all modern humans are originally descended from "black skinned" people, as OP’s post is implying.
Unfortunately fossils can only give us so much information about what people looked like in the past; skin does not preserve long enough for scientists to ever be able to answer this question definitively. All we can do is collect proximate data to loosely compare the little bits of evidence we have to create far reaching possible ideas.
The point is, while it’s possible that "everyone has a black ancestor" and "not everyone has a white ancestor", it’s also possible that it’s the other way around, or that NOT everyone has either a black or a white ancestor, but that, in fact, the only common skin color that every single person has an ancestor of is a skin color that doesn’t even exist anymore. Maybe we all have a Purple skinned ancestors. That sounds cool.
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Out of Africa theory?
What dp you know about the skin tone of these very early humans?
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If you go back far enough in your family tree the number of ancestors equals the population of the world at that time so you’re really related to everyone else
My ancestor was a rodent, he lived about 200 years ago in rural Kentucky.
Not everyone a Neanderthal genes either…
Don’t the two major theories Out of Africa and Mulitregionalism start in Africa?
Human skin likely started as pale. Darker skin evolved in response to loss of full body hair coverage. Technically, we all probably have both, unless some of those pale folks migrated away before exposure to the sun darkened our skin. In reality, I’m not sure we know for sure, but I’m pretty sure it really doesn’t matter all that much since we’re all human in the end.
My ancestors just bukkakked in circles in England for centuries, just 6 different flavors of vanilla. It’s a miracle I can dress myself
That’s not really how genetics work. We share a common ancestor who would be like neither. They likely had dark skin but would not match the modern day ‘black’ ethnicity associated with sub-saharan Africa.
If there is any black blood in my family, it’s before any of the recorded time.
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Do we know what skin colors early Homo sapiens had? I’m not rabble rousing; this is a sincere and curious question.
Oh a post about skin tone. This will end well.
“We are all shades of wheat”
Get a load of the guy who doesn’t believe in Yakub.
That’s assuming that humans primordial Ethiopian ancestor qualifies as ‘black’. Current black people are no less removed from them genetically than non black people are, and genetic diversity in sub Saharan Africa is greater than in other places.
just want to point out that these are a handful of silly genes we’re getting excited about, and we’re all related in some way to one another.
I’m sure everyone has white ancestors somewhere down the line. The tree of life is really REALLY long. They’d be white, but not necessarily human.
And a lot of African-Americans have a white ancestor
Actually the white people ancestors are just white people, their ancestors are aliens.
This is an actual thing people believe in. Only in the USA obviously, what else would you expect.
Everyone has incest their genetics.
Everyone most likely has a “white” ancestor as well. Maybe not a European ancestor.
What’s with all the deleted comments?
Hahahaha, I came in knowing this was gonna be a shit show. Sure enough, tons of comments have been deleted.
What about a fish ancestor
What happened to the top comment?!
Fun fact 27.5% – 33.6% of black Americans have white European ancestors.
I guarantee a large majority of that admixture was non-consensually obtained.
What a weird way to say we all are incest…
Definitely everyone has an African ancestor but do we know that they were definitely black?
FUCK I was once an ant
Incredibly Yakubian observation
Ah yes the
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It’s hard to say if our ancestors were all ‘black’ or not. But I understand what you’re trying to say.
Glad to see I’m not the only with moronic show thoughts.
Everyone has THE same ancestors when you boil down far enough
So it’s all of our word
Can I go to college for free then?
The first humans were black?
The average black person in America is 25% caucasian, genetically, due to slavery, according to the ancestry DNA testing companies.
brother done kissed his momma
Someone’s ancestors were dumb for not using sunscreen. Just poor planning on their part but unlocking the hidden achievement character is cool ig. Don’t have to worry about grabbing sun resistance for the later floors.
Wait damn, you’re not wrong…
"That doesn’t mean you get to say that word, or wear a durag…no the last thing isn’t a race thing, you just /cannot/ pull that off when you mix it with a pair of dockers and a polo shirt."
My understanding is that many scientists believe that the people migrating out of Africa weren’t necessarily dark skinned in the way that we associate with black people today – that Africans developed "black" skin at some point after people had already migrated out of Africa.
Theories say that a lot of people at the time of migration would have had some kind of medium light brownish color skin, a color shade that might have been comparable to something between modern Middle Easterners and Indians.
The variation in skin color – whether the "white" skin in Europe, the " yellow" skin in Asia, the "red" skin in the Americas, or even the "black" skin in Africa would have developed/evolved among each of these groups of people separately after they were already apart from one another.
Some other recent gene research evinces the possibility that the different genes for a variety of skin colors may have existed among the early people in Africa even before the migrations, and those already-existing genetic differences only became magnified after thousands of years of racial isolation after migration.
It should be worth Noting: If we do assume that humans evolved from a common ancestors to chimpanzees, then consider the fact that a chimpanzee’s skin color is fairly pale underneath all it’s body hair. That seems to indicate that humans may not have all "started out black", but instead may have all started out pale.
Despite some of these modern theories, there are still many scientists that do still believe that all modern humans are originally descended from "black skinned" people, as OP’s post is implying.
Unfortunately fossils can only give us so much information about what people looked like in the past; skin does not preserve long enough for scientists to ever be able to answer this question definitively. All we can do is collect proximate data to loosely compare the little bits of evidence we have to create far reaching possible ideas.
The point is, while it’s possible that "everyone has a black ancestor" and "not everyone has a white ancestor", it’s also possible that it’s the other way around, or that NOT everyone has either a black or a white ancestor, but that, in fact, the only common skin color that every single person has an ancestor of is a skin color that doesn’t even exist anymore. Maybe we all have a Purple skinned ancestors. That sounds cool.
Source: I’m high and did some reading.
Where we evolved has DEADLY amounts of UV.
Other places further away have DEADLY LACK of vitamin D, which can also be generated in sunlit skin.
So humans died for dark skin protection; then died when vitamin D was too low in the diet, but lighter ppl died.
Glad no one has to die to be fed and protected nowadays!
That just broke my brain
Why does that sound so true
And far far back, all of us have fish as ancestor…..one big happy family
I don’t think that’s true. I can guarantee that everybody has at least 1 albino ancestor if you go back in time enough.