White/Caucasian ?

Cooky · Jul 18, 2019

ajay0 said:
But your link itself says that the Neanderthals are also of African origin.

Why Am I Neanderthal?

This article says that neanderthals and modern humans have a common ancestral group in ancient human Homo heidelbergensis.

Your point being what?

ajay0 · Jul 18, 2019

Another issue I feel bad and strongly about is discrimination against albinos in India and Africa...
Ridiculous and pathetic stuff.

Photo Story: Albinism In India And Discrimination Based On It | Youth Ki Awaaz

Ending albino persecution in Africa | Africa Renewal

Persecution of people with albinism - Wikipedia

Cooky · Jul 18, 2019

JJ50 said:
I just don't see that the colour of one's skin is of any importance. It is the sort of person you are which counts.

Then why did you call white people "lily-livered"..?

JJ50 · Jul 18, 2019

Landon Caeli said:
Then why did you call white people "lily-livered"..?

I was referring to evil white racists who are the scum of the earth.

Howard Is · Jul 18, 2019

JJ50 said:
I am white.

Yeah, but you said it was the “mostly white”...

I was being humorous. My relatively recent ancestry is African, Irish and Polish.

Unsurprisingly, I’m a funky musician and a serious philosopher with a tendency to laugh and drink.

Pardon me for stereotyping myself, lol.

JJ50 · Jul 18, 2019

Howard Is said:
Yeah, but you said it was the “mostly white”...

I was being humorous. My relatively recent ancestry is African, Irish and Polish.

Unsurprisingly, I’m a funky musician and a serious philosopher with a tendency to laugh and drink.

Pardon me for stereotyping myself, lol.

Lay off the alcohol is my advice.

ajay0 · Jul 18, 2019

Landon Caeli said:
More likely is that white people acquired their pigment from the Neanderthals, since it has now been proven that blacks are the only group with zero Neanderthal genes.

This article states it to be a wrong conclusion.

Europeans did not inherit pale skins from Neanderthals

ajay0 · Jul 18, 2019

A white Indian family who is about to set a world record as the world's largest albino family...

Meet the Indian couple and their children about to set a new record - as the world's biggest ALBINO family | Daily Mail Online

Howard Is · Jul 18, 2019

JJ50 said:
Lay off the alcohol is my advice.

Thank you for your concern.
I’m 63, and very healthy.
My diet has been almost entirely unprocessed food for most of that time.
I fast intermittently, practice yoga, and have the libido of a young man.
I’ve had my share of fun, and expect even better fun because I still play guitar about four hours a day, and it keeps getting better.
I don’t drink much these days, although I do drink red wine most every day. It smooths out the cannabis and prescription amphetamine nicely. My blood tests show everything is optimal, with the exception of a slightly elevated MCV (size of red blood cells), associated with alcohol consumption. But not high enough to get worried about.
I have been using life extending supplements since 1979, and my knowledge in that area grows every year.
My only real health concern is that I may live longer than I can afford.

Cooky · Jul 18, 2019

ajay0 said:
This article states it to be a wrong conclusion.

Europeans did not inherit pale skins from Neanderthals

Which is peculiar, considering:

<FROM YOUR ARTICLE>
"An earlier analysis of ancient DNA in 40,000 and 50,000-year-old Neanderthal bones, respectively from Spain and Italy, suggested that our extinct cousins had light-coloured skin and reddish hair in their European heartland. But the Neanderthals went extinct around 28,000 years ago – long before modern humans in Europe gained a pale skin. Evidently Neanderthals did not pass these useful local adaptations on to modern humans, despite genetic evidence that the two species interbred."

...As if *living in Europe* just causes lighter skin and hair in primates.

...So rather than albino genes, it's got to be the environment that plays the biggest role.

Audie · Jul 18, 2019

siti said:
Obviously! Silly me! How did I not get that?

So it is as I suspected, "Noah" is not my great great etc
grandaddy. Whew.

Audie · Jul 18, 2019

80s fashion girl said:
And some people of African descent straighten their hair unnaturally. I think that their natural curly/afro hair is beautiful.

Asians always want a light skin

Cooky · Jul 18, 2019

Audie said:
Asians always want a light skin

Why are Asians eyes like that?

Audie · Jul 18, 2019

JJ50 said:
Jesus would have been of middle eastern appearance, not white.

Oh? Is "god" middle eastern? How do you know
Jesus daddy was not black or purple???

Cooky · Jul 18, 2019

I wonder what the evolutionary advantage of having the non-rounded "epicanthal fold" is.

There are some Europeans with the epicanthal fold, but I've never seen a black African with it.

...I wonder if some Neanderthal populations ever had it.

sealchan · Jul 18, 2019

ajay0 said:
I have seen albinos ( with dark-skinned Indian parents) who resembled europeans exactly, with blonde hair and blue eyes. Some with reddish hair too. This is also a phenomenon found amongst African blacks.

An interesting fact I found among some Indian albinos is sensitivity to tropical heat and intense sunlight. Albino Indians marrying each other tended to have albino children themselves.

Scientists say that the earliest europeans were dark-skinned. My theory is that the adverse and harsh climatic conditions in europe may have played a part in the evolution of the european people there from the historical african, as is now stated by modern biology.

Higher melanin levels or darker skin is associated with vitamin D deficiency, which means they are not able to process sunlight to gain needed Vitamin D in the biological system.

It's possible that there was a period in europe of sunlight and heat receding below normal levels due to harsh climatic conditions,which meant that the dark skinned europeans found it harder to gain much needed vitamin D.

The albinos ( lacking melanin) amongst these dark-skinned europeans were able to gain vitamin D from the sparse sunlight much better than the others, and were perhaps better adaptive to the climate, evolved better than the others, and survived the harshness of the region in larger numbers, eventually becoming the so-called white race.

Seeking critical views in this regard.

Colder temperatures means less sunlight...maybe neanderthal interbreeding... Researchers found proof of Neanderthals reproducing with other species

sealchan · Jul 18, 2019

Howard Is said:
Yeah, but you said it was the “mostly white”...

I was being humorous. My relatively recent ancestry is African, Irish and Polish.

Unsurprisingly, I’m a funky musician and a serious philosopher with a tendency to laugh and drink.

Pardon me for stereotyping myself, lol.

The more I learn about Britain or Finland the more I see myself in those people from whom I am predominantly descended.

ajay0 · Jul 18, 2019

Landon Caeli said:
Which is peculiar, considering:

<FROM YOUR ARTICLE>
"An earlier analysis of ancient DNA in 40,000 and 50,000-year-old Neanderthal bones, respectively from Spain and Italy, suggested that our extinct cousins had light-coloured skin and reddish hair in their European heartland. But the Neanderthals went extinct around 28,000 years ago – long before modern humans in Europe gained a pale skin. Evidently Neanderthals did not pass these useful local adaptations on to modern humans, despite genetic evidence that the two species interbred."

But the article also says...

~By analysing the genomes of 50 people with European ancestry and 70 people with sub-Saharan African ancestry, Beleza’s team could estimate when the three genes – and pale skin – first became widespread in European populations. The result suggested that the three genes associated with paler skin swept through the European population only 11,000 to 19,000 years ago. ~

Click to expand...

As the neanderthals became extinct 28000 years ago, and the three genes associated with paler skin swept through the European population only 11,000 to 19,000 years ago, it would mean that it was a case of evolution to adapt to the climactic conditions in europe then.

columbus · Jul 18, 2019

calm said:
We know from science and the book of Enoch that the first humans were black. The question arises where the white people come from. The science says, that some of the black people emigrated to the north (Europe) and after a long time by the new climate slowly became white. But that is wrong. The answer is, the white people are not only humans but also angels. The white people are the children of the fallen angels who have mixed with the human women.

Bolding mine.

And people wonder why I don't find Christians particularly credible.

Tom

Cooky · Jul 18, 2019

ajay0 said:
But the article also says...

As the neanderthals became extinct 28000 years ago, and the three genes associated with paler skin swept through the European population only 11,000 to 19,000 years ago, it would mean that it was a case of evolution to adapt to the climactic conditions in europe then.

Yes.

Two classes of hominids apparently mutated in the exact same way, independent of each other, and at seperate times... @shunyadragon, I'm seeing this everywhere, all over the place.

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