While over at the timesonline.com website, I came across this story about ‘White’ People:
From Timesonline.com:
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.
No, there wasn’t an implication that whites in America are ‘European-Americans’ just that Whites used to be darker, and the story doesn’t say they were Black.
Then again, scientists say we all came from Africa. It appears that we all did come from two people more and more.
So much change…
-Josh Truman
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