(July 25, 2013 at 3:25 am)Justtristo Wrote: The light skin color which people in Europe have is a very recent development, certainly less than 10,000 years ago. Which is the time when Europeans switched from a hunter gatherer to agricultural lifestyle and could not get enough vitamin D in their new diets.
Before that Europeans would have had significantly darker skin tone.
You just made that up, didn't you? Neanderthals in Europe had no agriculture, and yet exhibit genes showing they were very light skinned, probably freckled and had ginger hair.