What race is South Africa?

Two-thirds of the residents in Africa are black, the rest are mostly white, and only Madagascar has a small number of yellow people.

The main inhabitants of Africa are blacks, usually called blacks, but blacks are also divided into many different types. The two most common black branches are Sudanese black and Bantu black. Black people in Sudan are mainly distributed in the two rivers and one lake areas south of the Sahara Desert, that is, the middle and upper reaches of the Niger River, Lake Chad and Nile River, starting from the Atlantic coast in the west and reaching the west side of the Ethiopian Plateau in the east.

Bantu Nigro people are distributed in a vast area south of black Sudan. They are the basic races in equatorial Africa and southern Africa, and the most populous and representative race in Africa.

Africans generally refer to Negro people in sub-Saharan Africa. Their languages are divided into four categories: Khoisan, Niger Congo, Bantu and Nile-Saharan. Because people in sub-Saharan Africa are mostly black, Africans often refer to black people. Sometimes Africans include Arabs in North Africa and Caucasians in South Africa.

Africa is the continent with the longest history of human civilization. Since Darwin put forward the idea that human beings originated in Africa in 187 1, the world archaeological community has provided a lot of physical evidence, indicating that Africa, especially East Africa and South Africa, may be the earliest birthplace of human beings.

There are five stages in the evolution from Australopithecus to modern humans: Lamarckian, Australopithecus, Homo erectus (Homo erectus), early Homo sapiens and late Homo sapiens. These fossils have all been found in Africa, and their evolution process is more continuous than other continents, and the time of each stage is earlier, which indicates that Africa is probably the birthplace of human beings.

After the rise of modern molecular biology, it is further proved that all modern homo sapiens originated in Africa. Modern molecular biology uses genetic tools to analyze maternal mitochondria and paternal Y chromosomes of African, European and Asian races. It is found that ancestors of different races walked out of Africa 50,000-70,000 years ago14.3-144,000 years ago.

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