07-04-2008, 10:07 AM
That's a big maby Nancy. Right now I'll go with Chris Stringer and Tim White ... the concept that we were descended from eucynodonts is bad science since there is no physical evidence to create a link. Beyond that, we're all one, meaning only one species exists and that's Homo Sapiens Sapiens ... some have dark skin and some have light, yet it's clear we came up from Africa, first in the form of Goliath who became Neanderthal and yes, at one point humans were very large i.e., six feet to six feet four and perhaps two-hundred and fifty pounds, we had already used fire to cook and adored our bodies with various ornaments and, at least in my opinion, a non-religious opinion I might add, we were always sentient beings and never animals in that sense, we simply hadn't developed a technological base to support our massive intellectual capability until rather recently. To refer to any group of humans based on the shade of their skin is purely not scientific nor is it supportive of efforts to see mankind as one species which is a cause of separation and the creation of various enclaves unto themselves by the perpetuation of that myth. Darker and lighter skin tones are simply adaptive techniques the organism uses to ward of, for the most part, climatic stress.
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