Do you think white people originated in the Caucasus mountain region?

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  1. The Amazing Sam's Ego

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    Outside of Europe, the Caucasus region (its a seperate region from the middle east) is the only area where the native population is mostly white. Canada, the US, Australia and a few south American countries (most are mestizo majority), are mostly white, but the whites came there and became the majority during colonization, and the native population of those countries arent white.

    Some Caucaus people (like Kim Kardashian and Serj Tankian) look mid eastern and are probably of mid eastern mixed descent, but most people in the Caucaus look just like Europeans, unlike the vast majority of middle eastern people. That is why I think white Europeans originated from that region of Asia, thousands of years ago.

    Anybody disagree? If not, do you have any evidence to back up my theory?
     
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    No, I don't think White people originated in the Caucasus mountain region. A German naturalist named Johann Friedrich Blumenbach coined the term Caucasian denoting the race of Europeans based on his subjective opinion of the physical attractiveness of its people. He believed that man in his purest form was White and all other races deviated from the Caucasian ideal. He considered the Caucasus region to be the birth place of mankind because in his opinion Caucasians were the most beautiful race on Earth.


    No one knows where the gene for light skin color originated. Most likely humans became lighter-skinned after thousands of years on the Eurasian land mass and became lighter as they moved further north losing pigment not only in their skin but their eyes and hair.
     
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    And gaining a subcutaneous layer of fat.
     
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    A genetic study (Balanovsky et al. 2011) suggested a direct origin of Caucasus male lineages from the Near East, followed by high levels of isolation, and the Caucasus region is not where Caucasian peoples initially emerged. European hunter-gatherers with mtDNA Haplogoup U4 are thought to be the first white people who came into existence after splitting from Indo-European lineages and Haplogroup U is the oldest matrilineal lineage existed in Europe, which originated in the Indian subcontinent approximately 25,000 years ago. U4 is found in the Kalash people with the highest frequency of 34% and the Indo-Aryan peoples of Pakistan are most likely to be the original source of this haplogroup prevalent in Scandinavia and the Baltic states. In these mountainous regions in Pakistan or Afghanistan with very high altitudes and sub-zero temperatures, the ancestors of Nordic people evolved, while the Caucasus region played a certain role in the evolution of Haplogroup G2a, which emerged 3,000 years BP in the South Caucasus.

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    Though somewhat disputed by scoffers, science generally agrees that modern humanity originated in Africa. Perhaps there was a shifting of some tribal groupings into the Caucasus region centuries later. But as a layman with very limited knowledge on the subject, I accept the idea that all of humanity has a common origin, one likely from Africa.
     
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    I agree. :clapping:
     

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