Posted on 08/30/2009 10:40:35 AM PDT by decimon
White Europeans could have evolved as recently as 5,500 years ago, according to research which suggests that the early humans who populated Britain and Scandinavia had dark skins for millenniums.
It was only when early humans gave up hunter-gathering and switched to farming about 5,500 years ago that white skin began to be favoured, say the researchers.
This is because farmed food was deficient in vitamin D, a vital nutrient. Humans can make this in their skin when exposed to sunlight, but dark skin is much less efficient at it.
In places such as northern Europe, where sunlight levels are low, the ability to make vitamin D more efficiently could have been crucial to survival.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Should not be, but oh well, nothing new under that 'sun'.
Most Christians ignore Genesis 2:5 After it is already declared in Genesis 2:4 THE GENERATIONS OF THE HEAVENS AND OF THE EARTH (it is written in all caps in my KJV)
Genesis 2:5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew:
for the LORD God has not caused it to rain upon the earth, *and* (bit of seed planting follows) there was NOT a man to till the ground.
Then we are told about the formation of 'the' man Adam, quite unlike those 'men/women' created back in Genesis 1:27.
At long last proof that the Nation of Islam belief that the eeeveeel black scientist Yakub created the white devils.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakub_(Nation_of_Islam)
Good one!
Modern Europeans are descended from the peoples of the Middle East from modern-day Israel and Iran. They migrated up through the Caucases and that is why whites are called Caucasians.
Just checked a dictionary and the author is correct.
From the PhD crowd - you know, Pile it Higher and Deeper. This one can’t even stand the common sense test.
The genetic migration and evolution of modern Europeans is well documented and predates tripe like this.
This theory will turn out to be hogwash later on, like so many theories posited in the last century about modern human origins.
Didn’t Darwin originally say that black people were basically sub-human? Evolution is racist. Many of the “primitive” features of skulls are found in modern black/African skulls. Lower forehead, smaller chin, etc. Whenever a textbook shows a “primitive” skull and a “modern” skull it is always showing a white person’s skull for the “modern” one. It’s obvious to anyone who’s studied forensic anthropology.
“Millenniums” would be differing and separated eras of 1,000 years.
The two are not always interchangeable. The author misuses the term in this instance.
The article states that white europeans "could have" evolved 5500 years ago. Then again, maybe not.
then they shot the nose off the sphinx....
“Millenniums” would be differing and separated eras of 1,000 years.
The two are not always interchangeable. The author misuses the term in this instance.
In which dictionary may I find this?
I wonder if the first white guy was a racist like the rest of us?
Speaking of serious scientists, you of course are kidding, right? here? on this topic?
:-)
Actually their problem word is 'switched'.
I don't think they're saying that vitamin D effects melanin production. This would be survival of the fittest and the fittest would have been the lighter skinned in a northern agricultural society.
Uh, the world was not created 6,000 years ago. The Church has accepted that evolution probably did happen but that it was guided by God. Until God says otherwise through his servant Benedict or whomever succeeds him I really don’t see the need to dispute that.
And anyone who has had a basic science class knows that white people were in existence in Europe well before the dawn of civilization.
I don't know how you managed to read that into this.
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