If we all came from Adam and Eve how did we get to be different races, colors?
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Now that is something to think about............... Maybe it was evolution and survival of the fittest.
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I believe evolution is the reason for all the differences in races.  Races which evolved closer to the equator have brown eyes, darker skin and more curly hair--this was natures way of protecting them from the sun.  Races which evolved farther away from the equator have a much wider variety of eye color, hair color and shades of skin.  This is because the sun was not as harsh which allowed nature to take diverse courses in evolution.
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Well, I'll tell you my best guess and then in a million years, let me know if I turn out to be right.  I think we're going to be:\n\nBrown.  If we last another million years, we'll eventually all become the same color -- some shade of brown.  "White" and "Black" will refer only to colors and not races.  Even today, the advent of global communication and travel means that racial distinctions are being blurred.\n\nBigger.  First-world countries have higher average height and weight than their developing counterparts.  I suppose that this is a nutritional issue and not a genetic one.  But if we're still around in another million, it would be safe to assume that we've figured out our food production problems.\n\nPeaceful.  Chances are that we'll kill ourselves off before too long, but if we survive, we've beaten our own worst enemy -- ourselves.  This could go either way; peace might come only after death and destruction limit our ability to make war.\n\nAltered*.  This is the wild card, and it's a big one.  We're already on the cusp of genetic engineering already; sooner or later, we'll be able to basically choose what our offspring look like.  Who knows what will become stylish along the way?
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Skin color generally is generated from the geographical area you reside.\nHappy Birthday
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we did not evolve from apes\nwe are not "children" of apes we are more like "cousins"\nwe have common ancestors and we have all evolved to suit different situations
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some came from apes\nyou for example\n\nGod created the rest of us\n\npeace
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For all - let's get our facts straight. Christianity evoloved out of Jewism. Jesus was a Jew and the Isrealites were Jews. Christianity evolved from this. We are NOT all decendants of Adam and Eve - the Isrealites were. Were the other white people come from  is a mystery. There were some angles outside the garden and  what other people there were - we don't have an idea. I don't beleive in evolution but are also having a hard time believing creation. So who were outside the garden..maybe the animals and who created them...no idea
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color of our skin.\nmine is brown.
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Not even we all were of the same race , religion, etc. would there be peace, because the human spirit has a lust for POWER and mostly power over the same sex in order to be more popular to the opposite sex. The need to breed is very power-full indeed and we cannot escape it.
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We are all descendants of Adam and Eve (the first human beings created by God in the garden of Eden).
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The evolution of the different skin colors is thought to have occurred as follows: the haired ancestor of humans, like modern great apes, had light skin under their hair. Once the hair was lost, they evolved dark skin, needed to prevent low folate levels since they lived in sun-rich Africa. (The skin cancer connection is probably of secondary importance, since skin cancer usually kills only after the reproductive age and therefore doesn't exert much evolutionary pressure.) When humans migrated to sun-poorer regions in the north, low vitamin D3 levels became a problem and light skin color evolved.\n\nDark-skinned people who live in sun-poor regions often lack vitamin D3, one reason for the fortification of milk with vitamin D in some countries.\n\nThe Inuit are a special case: even though they live in an extremely sun-poor environment, they have retained their relatively dark skin. This can be explained by the fact that their traditional animal-based diet provides plenty of vitamin D.\n\nAlbinism is a condition characterized by the absence of melanin, resulting in white skin and hair; it is caused by a genetic mutation.\n\nResearch on skin color variability:\nThe color of human skin varies from dark brown to pale pink. In attempting to discover the mechanisms that have generated such a wide variation in human skin color, Nina Jablonski and George Chaplin (2000) discovered that there is a high correlation between the coloration of the human skin of indigenous peoples and the average annual ultraviolet (UV) radiation available for skin exposure where the indigenous peoples live. Accordingly, Jablonski and Chaplin plotted the whiteness (W) of skin coloration of indigenous peoples who have stayed in the same geographical area for the last 500 years versus the annual UV available for skin exposure (AUV) for over 200 indigenous persons and found that whiteness W of skin coloration is related to to the annual UV available for skin exposure AUV according to\n\n    W = 70 - [(AUV)/(10)]\n\n(Jablonski and Chaplin (2000), p. 67, formula coefficients have been rounded to one-figure accuracy) where the whiteness W of skin coloration is measured as the percentage of light reflected from the upper inner arm at which location on humans there should be minimal tanning of human skin due to personal exposure to the sun; a lighter skinned human would reflect more light and would have a higher W number. Judging from the above linear fit to the empirical data, the theoretical maximum whitest human skin would reflect only 70 per cent of incident light for a hypothetical indigenous human-like population that lived where there was zero annual UV available for skin exposure (AUV = 0 in the above formula). Jablonski and Chaplin evaluated average annual UV available for skin exposure AUV from satellite measurements that took into consideration the measured daily variation in the thickness of the ozone layer that blocked UV hitting the earth, measured daily variation in opacity of cloud cover, and daily change in angle at which the sunlight containing UV radiation strikes the earth and passes through different thicknesses of earth's atmosphere at different latitudes for each of the different human indigenous peoples' home areas from 1979 to 1992.\n\nJablonski and Chaplin proposed an explanation for the observed variation of untanned human skin with annual UV exposure. By Jablonski and Chaplin's explanation, there are two competing forces affecting human skin color:\n\n   1. the melanin that produces the darker tones of human skin serves as a light filter to protect against too much UV light getting under the human skin where too much UV causes sunburn and disrupts the synthesis of precursors necessary to make human DNA; versus\n   2. humans need at least a minimum threshold of UV light to get deep under human skin to produce vitamin D, which is essential for building and maintaining the bones of the human skeleton.\n\nJablonski and Chaplin
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This is a genetic matter\nIt depends to you mother and father's eye chromosomes\nAt first humans they used to have brown eyes.\nWith mutations in chromosomes, colors like \nblue, green, black, hazel were developed.
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All great answers.\nIt is nearly impossible to determine race.  \n\nAnalyzing DNA in a petri dish you would be able to determine probably eye color, probably hair color, and some other identifying informaton. But not race. You could link to some degree of certainty the sample to a known population, but not with enough specifity to hold up in court.\n\nIn general, we as a species are all very similar. Distinct culture and populations have some unique traits that repeat due to the closed nature of that society but as a species we work out genetically to be quite the same. \n\nThink of it this way. If an alien came to Earth, took random samples of people from all over, they would conclude we are all the same. That any variations in structure or color must be normal variety in the genome.
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Nope! We were created in the image of God.\n\nYou evolved from Neanderthals, probably from the retarded offspring of retarded fishmonkey beaver-things.
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All humans are related in one way or another, but not because of Adam, he never existed! it would take more then just 2 people to make the human race flourish and multiply! You would have to be a complete fool to actually believe that there were only 2 people in the beginning. Scientist will tell you that you need at least 15 - 20 of the same species for them to survive, otherwise they would die out.
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Why do humans have different races? If they arent meant to co-exist than their should be one race of humans since we all evolved due to the enviroment they were inhabiting.
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Good question.......I asked how did Adam and Eve have two sons and carry on the human race. Was it incest? i have no idea.\n\nWe have this idea that Adam and Eve were white (seen in pictures) but who really knows what race they were or if they truly existed. I was told that the bible is theory and it is symbolic not to be  taken literal. So take it for the "story" book it is.