Afro Hair

[D-MITCH777]

Can anyone help me with how some people developed Afro hair??

Question is a little suspicious when its the very first one from a brand new member with no introduction and no follow up post as yet.

Is this really a scholarly pursuit or do you have an alternative agenda?



Jury is still out for me on this guy.

There is no agenda. Just that im mixed race and I have curly, so I was wondering how we came to have this hair.

Like some one else said I think it's to keep cool in hot climate's. I think Afro haired people have less hair too.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Can anyone help me with how some people developed Afro hair??

'Afro' (short for 'African' and also called 'a 'fro') was a ghastly hair style.It had mercifully died by the end of 1970's,the greatest fashion-disaster decade of the twentieth century. (I once hurt myself by falling off my platform shoes)

I understand it was achieved by mainly Afro-Americans simply letting their naturally tight curly hair grow. I guess a hairdresser would happily make you look like a reject from TBBT for enough money.

[Minimalist]

I think Afro haired people have less hair too.

So do Asians and American Indians... and many of them did not live in hot climates.

Like I said, this is a very complex issue.

[Cinjin]

Question is a little suspicious when its the very first one from a brand new member with no introduction and no follow up post as yet.

Is this really a scholarly pursuit or do you have an alternative agenda? Jury is still out for me on this guy.

There is no agenda. Just that im mixed race and I have curly, so I was wondering how we came to have this hair.

Like some one else said I think it's to keep cool in hot climate's. I think Afro haired people have less hair too.

Welcome back.

I would chalk curly hair up to one of the many curiosities of the evolutionary process. Same as skin colors, slant/round eyes, and small Asian penises. Just one of those things.

what?

[Minimalist]

I've used this photo before, Mitch, so take a look at it.



It is wall art from the Tomb of Seti I, the father of Ramesses II of Egypt. It shows, c 1300 BC, the various subject peoples of Seti's realm, namely Egyptians, (brown skin - white kilt), Canaanites, Syrians and Nubians (black skin, sashes). Egypt and Nubia ( now Sudan ) share a common border. Do you think it was that much hotter on the Nubian side of the border to account for the difference?

It's a desert on both sides of the border. Without the Nile no one could live there. This is why I say that when we consider the racial differences among various human groups it is a very complicated issue and may well go back to Homo Erectus. Attributing skin or hair variations to climate sounds logical....until you look at it closely. It is not just skin color or hair texture. There are skeletal differences, too.

[D-MITCH777]

So would you say race does exist???

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

So would you say race does exist???

Me? Yes; the human race.

Are there differences? Of course, people like oneself and arseholes.

[D-MITCH777]

Is there any evidence for different types of Homo erectus ???

[Minimalist]

D-MITCH777 Wrote: So would you say race does exist???

Absolutely.

Feel free to take a peek at this discussion going on at Archaeologica.org


http://archaeologica.boardbot.com/viewto...=10&t=2978


It's somewhat wide ranging but it deals with a main point which is that we really do not know where/when/how humans originated.

There have been two main theories in competition. The Out of Africa theory ( OoA) holds that modern humans (HSS) evolved in Africa and some 60-70,000 years ago began to spread all over the world. It made a de facto statement that there was no interbreeding between HSS and Homo Neandertalis ( HNS). It maintains that the so-called "races" of man all derived from HSS within those last 60-70,000 years.

The multi-regional theory looks at Homo Erectus which began spreading out of Africa over 2 million years ago ( fuck all creationist morons!) and which evolved steadily.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiregion...ern_humans

Modern racial differences make sense if 2 million years of evolution is considered but I have real problems with everything having happened in the last 70,000 max.

Recent discoveries have shown that OoA is wrong about no interbreeding between HSS and HNS. Recent discoveries have found a 3d group called the Denisovans as well and genome studies indicate cross-breeding with humans who ended up in Melanesia.

What else is OoA wrong about?

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Is there any evidence for different types of Homo erectus ???

Here you go. I warn you, this could become a lifelong fascination.

http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/huma...mo-erectus


Scroll down to the Homo Erectus topics.

[Erinome]

Is there any evidence for different types of Homo erectus ???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuanmou_Man

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantian_Man

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Man

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meganthropus

among others.