On a technicality, they would be part of the Caucasoid group, which makes them cousins to whites more than whites themselves.

However, there's also significant admixture of Congoloids, now these would be the West African and down kinds of blacks that most are familiar with when thinking of Africa.

(Admixture of Congoloids has increased over the centuries, so DNA tests on preserved rulers and slaves tell us in these regions in East Africa, meaning they could've been paler back then.)

Hmm

In this respect I'd say that the Hamitic people would be considered the "cousins", if that makes sense, of Europeans. Distantly related, further than Semitic people would be, but somewhat closer to Europe than contemporary Africa.

So blacks could be Hamitic, but Hamitic may not have been black originally

They could be, yes.

There's a lot of information that we don't know about the region and the people in their origins.

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Not that white, really. Mediterranean tanned, but perhaps.

So that's how they built pyramid spaceships

100%.

So what made them black?

DNA mutation?

Somewhere along the line that's where all races would've come from, yes. But the most likely chance is that there was another group of people from before then who moved to these remote and inhospitable regions of Africa long ago and developed along their own lines to make what we now understand as Blacks in West Africa. (The Capoids were another race that lived in the southern reachces of Africa but they no longer exist anymore.)

If the blacks are descandants of Hamites, they're pretty heavily mutated, as they are surprisingly different from the regions in East Africa where the Hamites traditionally lived.

What would make them become black? There's similar climates elsewhere and those people aren't black

So it couldn't be an adaptation

It could be, but it's more than just being black.

That is to say, while Congoloids are... very easily recognisable for their skin tone, they can also be set apart by the shape of their skull, certain muscle mass, there are even different levels of hormones between races.

Why would one become black and not the other?

It could easily be that, amongst many adaptations suited to Africa, them put together resulted in significantly darker skin.

It could also be that they just so happened to get this trait through mutation, and other groups didn't.

Australian aborigines, for example, have very similar skin colour, but are not African themselves and have different body compositions. All the same, they just so happen to share a skin tone.

It's for this reason that the British accidentally labelled them as a race that they're not, they're basically their own group that is distinct from others in the region.

Hmm

Makes sense

But I studied anthropology, which anyone here would say is a waste of time, not biology. If you want to know the specifics, I'd recommend you check with someone else, I'm not an expert and probably made some mistakes here.

In any case, hope I could've been of some use before being called away.

Alright man, see you around, it's been educational

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He had evidence that would lead to the arrest of Hillary

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Black people really hate albinos

She better not head to Africa, will end up being eaten.

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