(June 21, 2018 at 1:17 pm)Alexmahone Wrote: The original humans, who evolved in Africa around 200,000 years ago, were most likely black. Does this mean that other races are more evolved than Blacks?
10 out of 10 for a question that's going to cause shock. I don't know if the expression more evolved is correct but it definitely makes the question ten times more controversial.
If evolution is taken to mean gradual change in heritable characteristics then it's possible that black people have evolved/changed less simply because of a change not being necessary. Since they're in the same climate as earlier humans. Their skin color, body fat percentage, nose shape is probably similar to earlier humans than white people, who have characteristics relatively better suited for non tropical climates.
What might be a complication is that I think I heard that earlier human like remains have been found elsewhere other than Africa. Also this is assuming that human ancestors are evolved in tropical areas. I think that is most likely since apes are all tropical animals as far as I know.
Also, if evolution is taken to mean something that can be measured in terms of less or more evolved than it probably wouldn't have the implications that some people might think. There's probably some insects or birds that have gone through more evolutionary changes than any ape and would be considered to be "more evolved" than humans. If you take "more evolved" to mean having gone through more changes inbetween their state now and their common ancestor.
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