Whites/Europeans/Caucasians are descended from Arabs.

With all of this racism and hate towards Arabs on the "political forum" its good to remind everyone that these very Arabs are your ancestors. Show some respect Americans!

Light skin in Europeans stems from a gene mutation from a single person who lived 10,000 years ago.
This is according to a new U.S. study that claims the colour is due to an ancient ancestor who lived somewhere between the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent.
Scientists made the discovery after identifying a key gene that contributes to lighter skin colour in Europeans.

 

link from a peer reviewed original source?

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...lived-India-Middle-East-10-000-years-ago.html

 

I suppose its possible, but I think human kind has been around for several hundred thousand years and they probably evolved in different areas for the world.

 

He added the lighter skin colour may have provided an advantage due to the better creation of vitamin D from sunlight in the dark northern latitudes.


ah, so this mutation is advantageous. That's good to know.

The a mutation, called A111T, is found in virtually every one of European ancestry.

A111T is also found in populations in the Middle East and Indian subcontinent, but not in high numbers in Africans.

so, I was right. Europeans and many folks in the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent, are related.

This mutated segment of DNA was itself created from a combination of two other mutated segments commonly found in Eastern Asians - traditionally defined as Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

‘The coincidence of this interesting form of evidence of shared ancestry of East Asians with Europeans, within this tiny chromosomal region, is exciting,’ said Professor Cheng.

‘The combining of segments occurred after the ancestors of East Asians and Europeans split geographically more than 50,000 years ago; the A111T mutation occurred afterward

white people and other Caucasians are descended from East Asia? Interesting.

that would explain the common light skin tones.

 

According to the source whites/caucasians have only been around for 10,000 years.

 

Of course they are, it aint rocket science. Whites are descended from Arabs and Indians.
These Arabs moved to the Caucus mountains and created white folk hence Caucus - Asians.

 

cranial shape, facial features, hair texture, has nothing to do with skin tone.

Caucasians may have developed these before white skin tone.

 

You know that's crap...

 

again, who says it came from Arabs???????????

do you know how many different peoples and cultures there were in that area 10,000 years ago??????????????

 

What?
The source is crap?

 

A mix of Arab and Tamil then, who cares.
When you look at the celts here in britain many of them have the same features as light skin Caucus Arabs. High cheek bones, brown eyes, black hair, nose that doesnt point upwards, tanned skin, that is the stereo typical Celtic look.

 

no, your claim is crap.

there is more to being Caucasian, than simply skin tone.

 

Like what?

 

You just typed a mouthful! For if this were not true then George Zimmerman could not have been magically transformed from a fellow of distinctive brown-skin tone and Peruvian-American ethnic features to White. I don't know precisely what else factors into it -- as this seems to be a closely guarded secret by the melanin ratio counters on the Left -- but obviously there must be a great deal more to the categorization process.

 

Have you read about the Natufians? They have been found in caves in Palestine and elsewhere in the Near East.. and the archeologists date them to 11,000 BC. They practiced shamanism and had burials ..

They are also suspect in the granaries found near the Dead Sea.. Scholars think they gathered food like wild chick peas at the cusp of the transition between hunter-gatherers and settle agriculture. In any case they think that chick peas were the earliest cultivated crop.

I have wondered if the story of Adam and Eve is not about that period of transition.

 

Look up white Hispanics on Google... like Cameron Diaz... Race is not so well defined. I have distant cousins from the Islands who are black with Dutch ancestry.

 

Yet -- gasp! -- he was still a brown skin-toned Peruvian-American and had he NOT been the racist fall guy for hate-filled leftwingers then the Times would not have resurrected the dust-laden term of White-Hispanic. They caught some flack for doing just that, by the way, just to PC reclassify Zimmerman for hatred purposes. So, yes, all this classification stuff is waaaaaaaaaaaaay complex, and apparently it is so primarily because the Left keeps arbitrarily changing running definitions for matters of short term ideological or political convenience.

 

GZ is mixed race. Kinda stupid to use him as an example.

 

White Hispanic is not "dust laden".. LOLOL .. It has been on the US census for decades.. Some Hispanics are mixed blood with Africans or American Indians .. or both.. Others are NOT.. have you been living under a rock your whole life?

 

If Science has it right, we all migrated out of Africa to populate the four corners of the earth. Due to evolution, climate, other reasons we became many races out of one. Today with the world being so small, with immigration, travel, tourism, GI's doing what GI's do, interracial marriage and the like, we have started back on the path to one race again. The human race.

 

bravo. an honest person arises from the flames!

 

right, and since we have no photographs of our ancient ancestors from Africa looked like, its impossible to say for sure what they looked like.

but we do know that the Earth's climate was much cooler back then, when humans first left Africa.

 

Actually, you seem to be hung up on the movement of human beings 150,000 years ago.

 

Arabia was once a savannah.. or maybe it was a savannah more than once in ancient history.. There are fossils of many, many animals including the wooly Mamoth (sp) It seems that Arabs moved in and out of the Arabian peninsula over many thousands of years depending on the circumstance of climate.