The First Humans Were White

This is a comment posted on the blog of Lee John Barnes on the subject of mankind's African origins and the racial implications raised. An important related subject that might shed some light on the questions raised would concern mankind's nakedness and when and why we lost our hair (persistence hunting?).

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Using the standard reference from the Bradshaw foundation infographic, homo sapiens first emerged in East Africa around 150,000 years ago. According to the Bradshaw Foundation's climate  timeline, the planet was six degrees colder at this point in time. Since black pigmentation is an adaptation to heat, it would seem very unlikely that the first humans were black. The most ancient Africans, the San, are noticeably less black than many other black African populations.

Black skinned hominids like the Gorilla are uniformly black: they have jet black hands and feet. Other primates, like the Chimpanzee, have white skin. Black Africans have white palms and the soles of their feet are white, indicating that their black pigmentation is a later adaptation to climate conditions and not indicative of a prototypical "human" phenotype.

Going back to the Bradshaw Foundation we see that an archaic branch of homo sapien (the modern San and Khoisan) were the sole inhabitants of that continent who slowly spread and multiplied in isolation. As the earth's climate warmed they acquired some phenotypic adaptations in conformity with environmental imperatives, but not enough to turn them into analogues of their noticeably more black fellow Africans.

The bulk of the modern "Black" African population are not directly related to the San however; begging the question, "where did they come from?". Once again the Bradshaw Foundation supplies the answer; by 40,000 BC the Asian branch of homo sapiens arrived in Europe, in 10,000 BC a branch of the (undoubtedly not black) Eurasian diaspora reentered Africa. These Eurasians began to interbreed with the archaic indigenous branch of homo sapiens and acquire adaptations to environment Through selection and miscegenation, and just as European humans preserve relic DNA from interbreeding with non-human Neanderthals, black Africans also have indeterminate relic DNA from ancient and indeterminate non-human sources. Modern Blacks are a recent hybrid race and not ancient at all.

We must also take note of the difference between being physiologically "modern" and being behaviorally modern. The first evidence of modern behavior in homo sapiens is exhibited in Europe (among white humans) during the Aurignacian revolution. This revolution almost certainly correlates with a rapid increase in intelligence among this branch of humanity.

White Europeans are likely to be the only truly modern human beings on the planet. Modern Blacks are a hybrid race, composed of archaic homo sapien genes and those of lithic period Eurasian invaders.

Humanity may have traveled from Africa, but black Africans were created in Africa and are a unique and recent sub-division of humanity.