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Demolishun3468050dI think the first "humans" were probably sasquatch. Then we were genetically modified by our alien daddys. I don't think naked apes is a beneficial adaptation in general.
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jestdotty521450dwere they black? I don't even know how we'd find that out
don't all we have are skeletons? I doubt there's any living DNA there even so you can't even clone them and find out
do current humans cease being black if you put them somewhere with lower UV? 🤔
intuits seem pretty dark skinned so seems unlikely. might be because they eat a lot of fatty animals and get vitamin d that way. but then the Scandinavians wouldn't be so white cuz they have a lot of fishing, also
so no clue if first humans were actually black -
NoMad1416650dWhat's the source study for OG humans being black? Or did you just invent that? Also you know that not all tribes in Africa are black, right?
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Demolishun3468050d@NoMad there is a whole segment of revisionist history that says all of europe was built by black people. Also taking credit for every advancement in history and how it was all stolen. I get that history may be different than the history books, but some things are way off base.
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@Demolishun shit, I mean it could've been
The fact that America's westward expansion was largely built on the backs of the Chinese was once considered "revisionist history" and probably still is by various assorted crackers -
NoMad1416650d@Demolishun idk man, to me, they're just melanin-rich humans.
Plus, I've seen kids lose all that melanin in literally two generations. (Brazilians in particular, seen multiple black grandmas with milky white grandkids, just cuz two generations married white) -
Demolishun3468050d@spoiledgoods I grew up understanding the Chinese built the railroad. So I dunno.
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Demolishun3468050d@NoMad there was some couple in England that are both black. They had a non-albino white kid. Had all the facial features of a black person, but white skinned. They found a sneaky white person back in their history somewhere.
I did read in a neuroscience book that said different ethnicities do have different average cranial sizes. Which is kinda wild. Also cranium size has been increasing since the early 1900s. They are not sure why.
I watched a ghost hunters one time that was filmed entirely in infrared. I got to the end of the show and they turned the lights on and this dude was really dark skinned. Everyone was 98.6 color until that point. So people are racist about what wavelength gets reflected. -
@jestdotty history is a living breathing thing in the sense that it can be mutated or simply destroyed as new information comes to light. It is unfortunate that it cannot be taught this way, we are severely limited in our ability to express history. Every word written on history will fall short of its intent
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@NoMad yah, I'm with you there
It's just a biological mutation among millions of them, we just assigned significance to it for some reason -
Demolishun3468050d@spoiledgoods I think chimps are like 96% the same as humans. But human to human is like 0.1% difference (or something, cannot find a good number, might be smaller). Pretty wild the variations we see in humans with a small percentage difference.
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jestdotty521449d@Demolishun humans vs whales: 90%
humans vs elephants: 90%
AI claims humans and mammals is generally 90%
having gotten sick and needing to figure out biology, an awful lot of compounds plants and other animals make and use and their machinery and metabolism are very alike, most of the time 90% the same! we're all cousins
DNA is instructions on how to set those compounds in motion, like you're building flyers in Conway's game of life -
Demolishun3468049d@jestdotty I have seen humans that are a much closer match to whales and elephants...
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kanyewest42049d@Demolishun Just finished watching "Warriors" on Netflix. The Chinese built the railroad while Irishman cried about chinks taking their jobs. Chinese labour = cheap labour. Maybe not today. Maybe it's Indians now.
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Demolishun3468049d@kanyewest I think the Irish at one time went through New York killing black people for taking their jobs too.
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Demolishun3468049d@kanyewest yes, we are. Don't agree with it, but I get the frustration people have with each other.
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jestdotty521448d@Demolishun oooh, you're Irish? might explain some things
I always get along with the Irish. respect
If first humans were black, then current blacks and browns haven't evolved, yet? Or still evolving?
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