Are other races more evolved than Blacks?

[popeyespappy]

Genetic Variations

For the purpose of this post I am going to break down the human population into three (3) populations. Africans, Asians, and Europeans.

All humans share 99.9% of their DNA. That is a difference of about 6.4 million out of the total 6.4 billion base pairs in human DNA.

Within a given population (Africans, Asians, or Europeans) the difference is 5.76 million pairs. About 0.09%. Between populations there is another difference of 640 thousand pairs. About 0.01%.

The difference between humans and chimpanzees is about 1.2%.

Humans and chimpanzees both differ from gorillas is by about 3.1%.

Humans, chimps, and gorillas all differ from rhesus monkeys by about 7%.

The previous three lines are important in understanding the answer to OP’s question. That’s because while there is a 3.1% difference between humans and gorillas there is a 7% difference between both humans and gorillas and monkeys. This tells us that rhesus monkeys, gorillas, chimps, and humans have all seen a 7% change in their DNA since they split from a common ancestor. 3.9% later was the last common ancestor of gorillas, chimps and humans. 1.9% later was the last common ancestor of chimps and humans. 0.1% later was the last common ancestor of all humans.

So no, Europeans are not more evolved than Africans. For that matter humans aren’t more evolved than chimps or rhesus. We have all evolved about the same amount since our last common ancestor.