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.
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Elijah Muhammad said this:
"The Blackman is the original man. From him came all brown, yellow, red, and white people. By using a special method of birth control law, the Blackman was able to produce the white race. This method of birth control was developed by a Black scientist known as Yakub, who envisioned making and teaching a nation of people who would be diametrically opposed to the Original People. A Race of people who would one day rule the original people and the earth for a period of 6,000 years. Yakub promised his followers that he would graft a nation from his own people, and he would teach them how to rule his people, through a system of tricks and lies whereby they use deceit to divide and conquer, and break the unity of the darker people, put one brother against another, and then act as mediators and rule both sides."
You’re not compliant in applying the term “racist” in the approved, amorphous political sense, and that is where your confusion arises.
The Nation of Islam. Horrendously racist people.
The development of a single trait is hard to determine accurately. The haplogroups that form much of the European population are traceable back some distance in time. It is hard to explain how lineages that go back further then 5000 years ago would all share the same trait. There was a similar statement about blue eyes being a recent mutation going back only 5000-6000 years that had me wondering about that. There is no logical way to explain how such traits could spread so rapidly if they were not in the populations prior to this latest theory. Unless of course everybody just wanted to do it with the white chick.
Gasp!
Say it isn't so!
Actually, goes without saying, but some here would vehemently disagree, question your faith, question your dogma, question your dog's dogma, your ancestry, the number of neurons in your head, and the number of them actually synapsing at any given moment, and how much nt is actually transferring to the post syanptic plate.
It is actually very entertaining, goes good with a glass or two of wine and a small plate of cheese,(without moose bite marks).
Did he say when the 6,000 years would be up? I’m sure the timing of that is convenient.
It was kind of interesting, but it was said in 1965. I got it from Wikipedia, so Lord knows how often its edited by, ahem, honest folks.
Sounds like revisionist history to me.
Good question. Never thought of that.
Revisionist history.
You speak the difference between a theory and the truth.
One is maybe, maybe not and the other is . . .
“Millennium” is singular, ergo a singularity, and so the plural of that implies many singularities, a separation and discontinuity of eras.
“Millennia” is plural in and of itself, and implies continuity, an uninterrupted era.
So, “millennia” is the term the author should have chosen, and would have, if he had any grasp of Latin.
Which came first the chicken or the egg?
The development of blue eyes and light hair/skin is indeed mysterious.
It could enhance survival in a cloudy, cold northern climate but as others have pointed out, the Inuit, northern Native Americans, Mongolians and northern Chinese all have darker skins than Europeans and have been in the north for many thousands of years.
Apparently the epicenter of blondes is the area around southern Denmark/southern Baltic shores.
Why there? Nobody as yet has an answer.
My guess is that when human beings pushed north into the Asian steppes to hunt mammoths, both before and after the last glaciation, (40,000 y/a and 15,000y/a) some people developed *both* the mongonlian epicanthic fold (’slant’ eyes)and light coloring. You can certainly see that in the Slavs.
Then they decided to go different ways, and they had a big meeting, and flipped a mammoth’s tooth for who got the slant eyes and who got the blonde coloring, and one went east and one went west, and there you have it.
And so only the ones in the middle have both.
Now is that clever or what?
“evolution doesn’t take millions of years any more” ping
I think the argument, which wasn’t well stated, goes something like this.
Vitamin D is necessary, without it, you die.
Before agriculture, sufficient Vitamin D was available through the food that was eaten.
When people in Northern Europe started agriculture, there was not enough Vitamin D in the food.
People with lighter skin make Vitamin D easier than people with darker skin.
People with darker skin died sooner than people with lighter skin in Northern Europe from conditions related to Vitamin D deficiency. The people with the lightest skin would live the longest, and reproduce.
Perhaps there was the flu back then.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2325254/posts
Vitamin D is recommended for Swine Flu.
Yup.
It was a mad scientist named Yacoub who was responsible!
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