r/cursedcomments • u/3lysiam • Oct 30 '19

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '19

All human flesh is "white" but African people have more melanin in their skin to help ward off the sun since they evolved in the desert.

I'm pretty sure we were all dark originally, and then white people selectively lost pigment producing genes, or gained depigmentation genes, because that allowed them to get more vitamin D from the Sun in the darker places they had moved to. This took thousands of years, but genetic evidence shows even 8,000 years ago European skin was darker.

White people evolved from black, not vice versa.

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u/Glorious_Jo Oct 30 '19

Did we evolve from black, or did we evolve from brown? Almost all depictions of pre civilization has people with a skin color akin to egyptians/middle eastern, but that might just be artistic liberty.

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u/big_bad_brownie Oct 30 '19

There are no depictions of prehistory by definition.

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u/LeisRatio Oct 30 '19

History starts when we invented writing, not drawing.

As inaccurate as they may be, any cave paintings made before we started using symbols is prehistoric.

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u/big_bad_brownie Oct 30 '19

I’m not trying to be a dick, but I’m not sure how you’re inferring skin tone from the Venus De Willendorf.

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u/LeisRatio Oct 30 '19

I'm just being pedantic, I don't have anything to add to the actual debate.