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Originally Posted by xepherys
a) 2000 years doesn't amount to much evolution.
b) Evolution has everything to do with skin color. *boggle*
c) Yes, and remember that people from that region today are lighter skinned than 200 years ago due to the influx of Europeans. Hell, look at Italians. A lot, especially Sicilians have pretty dark skin, and they're technically European.
d) Do you think that 2000 years ago people (because of relation, not evolution) from Egypt, Ethiopia or Palestine looked THAT much different? If so, can you present any data that might suggest so?
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A. Exactly
B. Duh. However I don't really recall there being any pressing evolutionary challenges presented in the Middle East in the last 2,000 were skin color would greatly alter. If anything the skin color of the region would only have gotten darker as a result of the great Arab influx in the last 1500 years.
C. I would bet the farm the majority of European immigrants are Jewish, stemming from the Zionistic movement which really only has the steam of about 100 years (Maybe 130 if you want to get hardcore). Being Jewish, and all there resulting problems with the Arabs, I highly doubt there has been much inter-racial mixing, Jews rarely delve outside of their own mix as far as marriage and breeding, I doubt the Arabs in the region are any different.
D. I would think that people from Egypt and Palestine (those two looking similar) looked way different from cats in Ethopia, in that they weren't black. They were tanned ass mediterranian(sp) types, not straight up African Horn types.
The only data I have to support this is common sense. Have you ever seen an Egyptian? have you ever seen an Ethiopian, Or Somalian? They are BLACK, people on the mediterrian(sp) are not pure and simple.