Woke brigade picks new target to label racist: evolution
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Do you think that maybe evolutionary texts show skin color getting lighter because monkeys have brown/black skin and humans generally do not?
I'm also guessing that most scientific work on the subject was written by Europeans who would make their illustrations look like them. There's not a lot of groundbreaking evolutionary theory coming out of sub-Saharan African scholars.
I really wish I could find a copy because it was hilarious but I remember seeing a Japanese TV show once where they explained evolution and Out of Africa with a cute animation of black people leaving Africa with an arrow showing their migration to Europe where they "evolved" into white people, then another arrow from there went east where they evolved into their final form, the Japanese.
That's... pretty much what happened. I like to think of it as the first instance of "white flight." One group of African proto-humans were smarter and less violent than the others and moved to the frozen wastes of prehistoric Europe in order to get away from them.
I'm not exactly well-read on the newest developments in evolutionary theory so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't there been developments within the past decade that have made people question the out of Africa theory? Pretty sure at some point there were competing theories gaining prominence. Could be totally wrong and confusing it with something else though, so someone more knowledgeable on the matter feel free to chime in.
I'm no expert, but I think those developments have been fossil discoveries that push back the initial migration out of Africa back to 200,000 years ago. Previously they thought it was less than 100,000 years ago. Which only highlights just how different Africans are from Europeans & Asians. I wonder if, had we been allowed to drift apart for another 100k years or so, interbreeding would even be possible.