The earliest hominid ancestors of humans most likely had pale non-pigmented skin covered with dark black hair, like the chimpanzee and other great apes.
They would thus have been middle-brown in color, and from them, in one generation, the various shades of brown would have been produced. These color differences were likely amplified following the business at the Tower of Babel [Genesis 11:1-9] when the human gene pool was divided.
Since strong sun exposure damages the body, the solution was to evolve skin that was permanently dark so as to protect against the sun's more damaging rays. Melanin, the skin's brown pigment, is a natural sunscreen that protects tropical peoples from the many harmful effects of ultraviolet (UV) rays.
Humans first evolved in Africa, and much of human evolution occurred on that continent. The fossils of early humans who lived between 6 and 2 million years ago come entirely from Africa. Most scientists currently recognize some 15 to 20 different species of early humans.
The earliest Homo sapiens sapiens were dark-skinned, though, and didn't evolve white skin till much later . We didn't inherit from the Neanderthals. So, when Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons coexisted, the Neanderthals were white(ish) and the Cro-Magnons black(ish).
They found that the known Neandertal genomes had very few SNP alleles associated with light pigmentation in today's people. They suggested that Neandertals had been dark-skinned, brown or red-haired, and brown eyed.
Early African Homo erectus fossils (sometimes called Homo ergaster) are the oldest known early humans to have possessed modern human-like body proportions with relatively elongated legs and shorter arms compared to the size of the torso.
According to the most recent archaeological evidence, Aboriginal peoples have been living on this land for at least 65,000 years, confirming what Aboriginal people have always known, that they are the world's oldest continuous living culture.
Conclusion. From a conservative biblical standpoint, the evidence in Scripture points to Adam and Eve as the first humans, directly created by God. This belief is crucial for maintaining core Christian doctrines such as original sin and the atoning work of Christ.
In human genetics, the Mitochondrial Eve (more technically known as the Mitochondrial-Most Recent Common Ancestor, shortened to mt-Eve or mt-MRCA) is the matrilineal most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of all living humans.
Summarizing these studies, Hanel and Carlberg (2020) decided that the alleles of the two genes SLC24A5 and SLC45A2 which are most associated with lighter skin colour in modern Europeans originated in West Asia about 22,000 to 28,000 years ago and these two mutations each arose in a single carrier.
People with a rare condition called methemoglobinemia have actual blue skin. The Blue Fugates of Kentucky are the only known family carrying this trait.
The Bible does not usually indicate a person's color, but more often describes the land of origin. People moved around a lot more than you might think in the ancient world. Ordinarily, but not always, people from Africa were black.
James H. Charlesworth says that Jesus's face was "most likely dark brown and sun-tanned", and his stature "may have been between five feet five and five feet seven".
These individuals have been nick-named Y-chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve. According to this theory, all men possess Y chromosomes inherited from Y-chromosomal Adam and all women contain mitochondrial DNA inherited from Mitochondrial Eve.
Many scholars believe that the Deuteronomistic history preserved elements of ancient texts and oral tradition, including geo-political and socio-economic realities and certain information about historical figures and events. However, large portions of it are legendary and it contains many anachronisms.
People with very light skin colors (what we call white people, though most people are really just shades of brown) evolved over thousands of years in northern climates. Groups of humans who migrated to Europe and northern parts of Asia over the past 25,000+ years experienced a gradual loss of skin pigmentation.
This study confirms Aboriginal Australians as one of the oldest living populations in the world. They are possibly the oldest outside Africa, and they may have the oldest continuous culture on the planet.
None of the humans contains the 100% pure DNA of a single ethnicity. Humans migrate from one place to other. This migration has led to the mixing up of DNA. Many people in different parts of the world possess the gene of African origin.
Humans first evolved in Africa, and much of human evolution occurred on that continent. The fossils of early humans who lived between 6 and 2 million years ago come entirely from Africa. Early humans first migrated out of Africa into Asia probably between 2 million and 1.8 million years ago.
It's impossible to know who the first person to be born was, but what we do know is that man (or the ancestor of man rather!) appeared around 7.2 million years ago. Our 'direct' ancestor however, the Homo Sapiens appeared only about 315.000years ago.
There has always been some disagreement among scientists on when humans began wearing clothes, but newer studies from The University of Florida involving the evolution of body lice suggest it started sometime around 170,000 years ago.
