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To do a section on "The origins of black skin" is backward it should be "The origins of white skin".The article misstates the fact that the mutation is from dark skin and kinky hair to white skin and straight hair,the first humans were black. the mutation is of the other races.
Cameron Nedland 03:33, 29 December 2005 (UTC) Vehgah Not all chimps have "white" skin [ http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/img/chimpanzee.jpg
link]
-- 65.188.253.47 21:22, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
And, by the way, even these apparently dark skinned chimpanzees have fair, unpigmented skin under the body hair. The "bald" spots are sometimes pigmented, varying from subspecies to subspecies, probably according to sun exposure in each typical habitat too, I guess. Human dark skin is ancestral, though, to human white skin; it's not as if white people evolved separately in Europe, never having dark skinned ancestors. --
Extremophile (
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19:48, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
"When Hominids evolved relative hairlessness (the most likely function of which was to facilitate perspiration)" Is it not true that hominids don't have relative hairlessness over other great apes, rather we have a similar number of hairs but each hair is much less coarse in modern humans? Perhaps "... relatively finer hair ..." or similar would be preferable? Or is this venturing too far from lay english? 81.141.18.176 ( talk) 10:45, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
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To do a section on "The origins of black skin" is backward it should be "The origins of white skin".The article misstates the fact that the mutation is from dark skin and kinky hair to white skin and straight hair,the first humans were black. the mutation is of the other races.
Cameron Nedland 03:33, 29 December 2005 (UTC) Vehgah Not all chimps have "white" skin [ http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/img/chimpanzee.jpg
link]
-- 65.188.253.47 21:22, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
And, by the way, even these apparently dark skinned chimpanzees have fair, unpigmented skin under the body hair. The "bald" spots are sometimes pigmented, varying from subspecies to subspecies, probably according to sun exposure in each typical habitat too, I guess. Human dark skin is ancestral, though, to human white skin; it's not as if white people evolved separately in Europe, never having dark skinned ancestors. --
Extremophile (
talk)
19:48, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
"When Hominids evolved relative hairlessness (the most likely function of which was to facilitate perspiration)" Is it not true that hominids don't have relative hairlessness over other great apes, rather we have a similar number of hairs but each hair is much less coarse in modern humans? Perhaps "... relatively finer hair ..." or similar would be preferable? Or is this venturing too far from lay english? 81.141.18.176 ( talk) 10:45, 30 March 2009 (UTC)