Humans: Available in white since 5500 years.

[Hairless Kitten II]

White Europeans could have evolved as recently as 5,500 years ago, according to research which suggests that the early humans who populated Britain and Scandinavia had dark skins for millenniums.

It was only when early humans gave up hunter-gathering and switched to farming about 5,500 years ago that white skin began to be favoured, say the researchers.

This is because farmed food was deficient in vitamin D, a vital nutrient. Humans can make this in their skin when exposed to sunlight, but dark skin is much less efficient at it.

In places such as northern Europe, where sunlight levels are low, the ability to make vitamin D more efficiently could have been crucial to survival.

Johan Moan, of the Institute of Physics at the University of Oslo, said in a research paper: “In England, from 5,500-5,200 years ago the food changed rapidly away from fish as an important food source. This led to a rapid development of ... light skin.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/s ... 814896.ece

I'm surprised that it doesn't take a long time to develop a skin colour.

The global warming has one advantage: soon the Earth will be dominated by blacks.

[Maurepas]

Tell me something I dont know...They told me this in both History and Biology a long time ago....

[Hairless Kitten II]

Tell me something I dont know...They told me this in both History and Biology a long time ago....

I didn't know. And it seems the media either, because worldwide they are publishing it the last couple of days.

[Natapoc]

It has been the dominant theory for a while but they recently found better evidence and were able to narrow down the date. We are all Africans! pretty cool huh?

[Hairless Kitten II]

It has been the dominant theory for a while but they recently found better evidence and were able to narrow down the date. We are all Africans! pretty cool huh?

But that's the point, the date... 5500 years ago, that's 3500 BC...

[Newsan]

What's special about 3500BC?

[Tubbsalot]

Development of agriculture in England, apparently.

[Tekania]

Since we've already known, because of genetic variability, that Black's from Africa have been around longer than any other "race", and that the human race originated in Africa, and therefore all Europeans are the decedents of migrant Africans... This story is of little to no surprise.

[The Machine Imperium]

And the Russians migrated to the Americas and made the original Native Americans.

[Lackadaisical2]

Global warming fail. I don't see how the earth warming will do any good for blacks trying to live in the northern climes, its not like the sunlight's intensity will increase, unless you're saying all of society will collapse and we'll go back to hunting food

[You-Gi-Owe]

Let me know when you get around to explaining the difference between the shape of the nostrils between descendants of Europeans and Africans. And also about the Asian epicanthic fold in the eyelids.

[Soratsin]

The global warming has one advantage: soon the Earth will be dominated by blacks.

So we've finally found something about global warming that the right will actually be afraid of, well done science.

[Treznor]

An article outlining detailing evidence to help confirm a hypothesis about human evolution fails because it doesn't explain other unrelated questions? And you wonder why we make fun of you.

[Rolling squid]

Well obviously whites have only been around for 5500 years, that's about how old the earth is.

[Vault 10]

More like 6500.

So for the first millenium GNAA ruled the Earth.

[Risottia]

White Europeans could have evolved as recently as 5,500 years ago,

Humans were originally dark-skinned, that's for sure. But judging from pieces of art from the Copper and Iron Ages, depicting humans - and also from the Similaun mummy (Oetzi) - I'd say that the transition to white skin is older than 3500 BC.
After all, Europe was continously inhabited by humans throughout the last Ice Ages: very likely, those humans had a pale skin, as it is beneficial in cold climates.

[Flameswroth]

The global warming has one advantage: soon the Earth will be dominated by blacks.

I'm not sure why that's an advantage or a disadvantage. Do you like people with dark skin better or something?

[Treznor]

The global warming has one advantage: soon the Earth will be dominated by blacks.

I'm not sure why that's an advantage or a disadvantage. Do you like people with dark skin better or something?

It will undermine racism, as it will become harder to differentiate people based on the color of their skin.

[Scarsaw]

The global warming has one advantage: soon the Earth will be dominated by blacks.

I'm not sure why that's an advantage or a disadvantage. Do you like people with dark skin better or something?

It will undermine racism, as it will become harder to differentiate people based on the color of their skin.

And that day we'll all look like this:

[Treznor]

I'm not sure why that's an advantage or a disadvantage. Do you like people with dark skin better or something?

It will undermine racism, as it will become harder to differentiate people based on the color of their skin.

And that day we'll all look like this:

I remembering reading a Piers Anthony novel about that, where racial differences have been bred out, everybody has the same skin color and refer to each other as "Stan," as a subset of "Standard."

OMG, it's RACIAL COMMUNISM! Quick, where's McCarthy when you need him? Nevermind, we have Michelle Bachmann!

[Scarsaw]

I remembering reading a Piers Anthony novel about that, where racial differences have been bred out, everybody has the same skin color and refer to each other as "Stan," as a subset of "Standard."

OMG, it's RACIAL COMMUNISM! Quick, where's McCarthy when you need him? Nevermind, we have Michelle Bachmann!

Sounds like an interesting novel, might pick it up. Anyway, as we all know, all those distopian novel always pushes the possibility to the extreme...but within that extreme, there is some truth to the fear to ponder.

But I rather have Zombie McCarthy *tear* Then frozen Walt Disney can start locking himself in Disney vaults again.

[Parthenon]

The global warming has one advantage: soon the Earth will be dominated by blacks.

Your logic has failed you young padwon. Global warming does not equate to the suns intensity increasing, there won't be any additional benefits from the UV protection of darker skin. That being said, darker colors absorb more sunlight thus raising their temperature, not that desirable of a trait on a planet with a rising temperature and a relatively dynamic amount of sunlight/intensity.

[The Cat-Tribe]

Let me know when you get around to explaining the difference between the shape of the nostrils between descendants of Europeans and Africans. And also about the Asian epicanthic fold in the eyelids.

Um. Assuming there are such identifiable "racial" differences, what about them needs to be explained? And why?

[Flameswroth]

The global warming has one advantage: soon the Earth will be dominated by blacks.

I'm not sure why that's an advantage or a disadvantage. Do you like people with dark skin better or something?

It will undermine racism, as it will become harder to differentiate people based on the color of their skin.

Perhaps that is what they meant, but for some reason I get the feeling that they would not have been so quick to call it an 'advantage' if the situation were reversed, and it were whites that became the dominating race due to global warming.

I could be wrong.

[Bluth Corporation]

And the Russians migrated to the Americas and made the original Native Americans.

...no

The Russian people are ethnically more similar to Scandinavians than they are to the American Indians, who are more likely a distant relative of the modern-day Mongols.