That is part of evolution , because we reale don't know if Neanderthal man have something to do when he moved into Africa and spread his seed to produce a modern man .
For goodness sakes!
How many of these threads do you have to start that is basically the exact same subject as all the other ones and making the same baseless assumption and dealing with the same hang-up you have about skin colour?
The answer is still exactly the same as the from the previous thread.. No, Neanderthal did not "produce modern man". Homo sapiens evolved in Africa.
There was a lot of interbreeding events with other hominids in Africa.. They them migrated out of Africa, and bred with other hominid species that came before them.. Not just Neanderthals, but Denisovan's and probably other yet unknown hominid species.
White skin appeared in Europe around 8,000 years ago. Long after the extinction of Neanderthals. Prior to that, Homo sapiens in Europe had dark to black skin.
Let us assume that heidelbergensis evolved at about 40 degrees north latitude or north of there.
Could he then not also have been pale skinned, redheaded and blue eyed, much like his neanderthal spawn?
Neanderthals ranged from pale to dark skin. Not all had red hair, nor were all blue eyed. In fact, they were as varied as Homo sapiens are. One would assume that their ancestors were also just as varied.
And the red hair that Homo sapiens have,
is not from Neanderthals.
The genetic mutation that gave Neanderthals their fiery locks cannot be found in modern humans.
Nowadays, people with red hair do have a mutation in the same gene, MCR1, but it's a different mutation.
What's more, the Altai Neanderthal did not have the red-haired mutation. This hints that, just like us, Neanderthals had more than one hair colour.
As for blue eyes..
That, like white skin, also appeared much later after
Neanderthals became extinct..
New research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye colour of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today.
More here:
https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/...eals-origins-of-blue-eyes-lactose-intolerance
http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/all-blue-eyed-people-have-common-ancestor-0/
Would that imply the Sami people should have blond hair, since that culture ia around 8000 years in the northern area.?
Why would they have blonde hair?
You do realise that blonde hair is not really connected to where people live, right? That it is a genetic mutation and natural blonde hair has different mutations in different parts of the world? For example, the blonde haired Solomon Islanders in the Pacific Ocean, along with Indigenous Australians, have blonde hair and some even have bright blue eyes..
The blonde hair is caused by a completely different mutation than the blond hair found in Europeans..
While blue eyes all share a link to one common ancestor not that long ago,
blonde hair in the South Pacific was from a different mutation to that of European blonde hair and is localised to the region and is actually quite pervasive in the region, particularly in the Solomon Islands.. And absolutely nothing to do with Europeans or the climate.
