Who was the first race on earth?
All exemplars of the human race (biologically, there is not enough variation to justify the existence of more than the one) are descendants of the earliest Homo Sapiens sapiens which arose in East Africa something like two hundred thousand years ago. As there is no preserved skin from the earliest Homo Sapiens it is impossible to make a definitive statement of the primal skin color, but the climatic and solar conditions of East Africa at the time were relatively similar to those there today – so it is probable that the earliest Homo Sapiens sapiens were adapted to the ambient conditions, with melanin-rich dark skin to protect against strong solar radiation, full lips and broad nostrils for heat exchange and spiral hair for rapid release of excess heat from the scalp. The first modern humans were probably rather different from the current West African, European and East Asian types, each of which evolved through adaptation to local conditions, but very likely were similar to the current
