A Believer's Thoughts on Faith

[Anomalocaris]

The first H. Sapiens were all dark-skinned.

Probably not -but I'm taking it further back than hss.  Probably light skinned.  Ever seen a shaved chimp?  If we're anything like other animals, we darkened after we lost our coats.

Chimps have light colored skin because they are almost completely covered dense fur.

We have strong evidence that our lineage has had basically the same rather peculiarly absurd pattern of body hair as we do, that is dense head hair, under arm hair and pubic hair, but largely hairless everywhere else, for hundreds of thousand of years before the first homo sapien evolved..     

So the first Homo sapiens, being without ancovering of fur, almost certainly had to have dark skin for protection against the African sun.