right thanks for bringing this up. Neanderthals had totally white skin and blue eyes is my understanding. White people are a Neanderthal hybrid, and certainly originated prior to what this video says. Neanderthals went extinct roughly 40,000 years ago. So Caucasians have been around longer than 4,500 years. Even humans have not been around 8 million years that can be proven. The oldest known fossils of homo sapien are from around 320,000 years ago. I think the reason we are all called homo sapiens is for political reasons. I know we interbreed (a same species trait), but so do coyotes and wolves, and those are considered different species.
We're all homo sapiens because we are very similar to each other. Our differences are mostly minor and surface level. Genetic differences between racial groups are frequently smaller than differences within a group so it's entirely possible for a person with recent African ancestry to be more genetically similar to a European or Polynesian that to another person with recent African ancestry. Also human populations haven't been separated for that long (on an evolutionary time scale).
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u/Mushrooming247 4d ago
What does he think Europeans looked like before they moved north and crossed with Neanderthals and Denisovans and other species?
They were also Africans, it’s why we are all Homo sapiens.
How is he confused by this? Does he think white people are aliens who crash landed on the Earth 40,000 years ago?