While early humans’ migration led to changes in our skin tones, what affected the distinctive face characteristics of each race?
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I’m going to make three posts.
Post 1. Where did non-black people come from?
The non-black peoples are generally descended from a single group which left East Africa a very long time ago.
The highlands of East Africa are low malaria and are called the White Highlands because they are suitable climate for light skinned people.
Some of the light skinned people of these white highlands may have been sent out to Asia, forming the ancestors of modern non-black people. The rest of the light-skinned highlanders may have been simply assimilated so that we do not see much of them these days.
In Paraguay there is a race of pale-skinned Japanese-looking “wild men” called the Ache. These Ache appear to have been originally slaves of the brown-skinned Guarani, but the Ache fled into the forest to live as maroons free from Guarani persecution.
Perhaps the first nonblack people fled into Asia from black persecutors; perhaps however they were colonists of some sort, parting with the black people on friendly terms. Either is possible.
My source is “Ache Life History” by Kim Hill.
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