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When did North Africans acquire light skin color?
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] Lighter skin has always existed among various African groups as there is no single skin color in Africa and there never has been. So we can safely say that among certain populations in Northern parts of Africa there has always been an indigenous lighter skinned component. However, because coastal areas of Northern Africa are close to Europe and the Levant, then lighter skin from migrations of Europeans and others into these areas have also had an impact.But again, the main area of impact would have been in those coastal areas, while the Sahara, Sahel and Nile Valley always had black populations. And it is only in recent times that the population densities of coastal communities such as Egypt and so forth have risen to the point where those populations with lighter skin are numerically more dominant. That did not exist 5,000 years ago. Case in point, the population of Egypt 2,000 years ago is said to have been between 2 and 4 million people and has risen steadily since due to migration and reproduction, mostly in the northern parts of the country. As for those reconstructions they are guessing. Because any kind of facial reconstruction depends on databases of features of populations to use as a references for soft facial features. And most of these databases are based on modern European populations. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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