How Your Skin Colour is Linked to Your Mental Health
There is no such thing as race. Only vitamin D.
Things are often not as they appear. The world appears flat and still; it is round and spinning. Matter appears solid; it is vibrating energy. Humans appear to belong to different races. Fooled again: race is an illusion.
Our common ancestry
Non-African people today are all the sons and daughters of migrants. It’s a story that began a long, long time ago. About 200,000–300,000 years ago.
In his book Out of Eden, geneticist Stephen Oppenheimer explains how every non-African person can trace their ancestry back to Africa. Equatorial East Africa, to be precise. We all go back to black. Every person on this planet is related to everyone else, having a female and male ancestor in common and originating from a single population.
Those were the days! We ran about, mostly naked, enjoying year-round, wall-to-wall sunshine. We didn’t know it, but we had vitamin D on tap and our dark skins offered protection from the excesses of the sun’s rays.
Then, around 70,000 years ago (the experts are still debating the exact date, and the exact reason) large numbers of Homo sapiens packed up and set off to explore the wider world, travelling north and south…
