Obviously the collective phenotype so-called races of homo sapiens have morphed from the African prototype and are subject to morphing into one another, with more or less difficulty, given their particular morphological states and differences and environmental conditions, cultural practices and diet, and even into something entirely different, as they have done from each other in the past to arrive at their present morphologies. The implied functional differences between these so-called racial phenotypes on the group level, as distinct from on individual bases, evidentially are culturally, sociologically and societally based. Simplistically speaking, just three decades ago black people generically were widely mythologized to be physically superior to other races athletically, but highly racially mixed black Americans were predominately the champion performers in high-profile sports like boxing, high jumping, hurdling, sprinting and basketball, over even black African, Caribbean and South American athletes, and Ethiopians dominated long distant running; however, this status was followed with particularly Mexicans, since the 1980s, and Eastern Europeans, since the mid 1990s to present, challenging and defeating at times the best of black boxers on the planet, with Kenyans challenging and regularly out racing Ethiopians in long distance running, and non-professional European basketball teams at times winning over American basketball teams comprised largely of the top tier of professional black American basketball players.

The earliest, as well as quite splendid, civilizations that arose in Mesopotamia, Egypt, India and what is now China, were rivaled in splendor, and intellectual and artistic achievements by the much latter Southern European civilizations of the Greeks city states and empires and Italy and the Roman Empire, East and West, and impressive civilizations rose and fell in black Africa (most notably Kemit, Great Ghana as distinct from present-day Ghana, Timbuktu, Songhai, Benin, Yoruba) and the Americas (most notably the Inca, Mayan and Aztec civilizations), and technologically, intellectually, and in amenities and in quality of life civilizations arose and ultimately exceeded all of these by many orders of magnitude from the European heartland and far north and spread to the Americans, Australia and New Zealand. There were also the respective great Mongol, Ottoman and Moorish empires and civilization. Today Japan is a pinnacle civilized society comparable to the best European-people nations offer and China's society is swiftly and aggressively moving to the fore, in a modern-times comeback.

On the biological level, if one were to take Europeans and place them in hot, tropical Africa without modern means of shelter from the sun, those and their offspring without a genetic trait for tanning and without greater genetic resistance to skin cancer would die out or be maladapted and environmentally dysfunctional, whereas those with the tanning and skin-cancer resistance genetic traits would have the healthier and environmentally better adapted offspring, which in mating and reproducing for generations would readily produce an increasingly higher incidence of dark-skinned offspring. These at an early stage of racial morphology would tend to be dark-skinned, straight to wavy-haired, blue-, green-, gray-, light-brown- and dark-brown-eyed post-Europeans for perhaps millennia, until even these salient European phenotype traits morphed or transitioned away, in the absence of acceleration by interracial mating with native black Africans -- sort of like the European-featured segment of the majority dark-skinned people of India. We also note that the generally small people of Latin American and Far Eastern parentage on the average grow successively taller than their parents over generations in the previously heavy milk drinking and meat, eggs, wheat and fruit and vegetable eating U.S. (until the ubiquity of fatty, starchy, sugary processed fast-foods) and that Far Eastern athletes, once considered generally physically uncompetitive with athletes of the other phenotype races, in the absence of performance-enhancing illegal drug use, with a good diet and rigorous and competent training, are now and becoming ever more formidable athletic competitors with athletes of the other phenotype races. If Neanderthal genes are in the human genome, given the considerable migration of the world's people and imperial and colonial contact with one another and the pervasive racial adulteration of black Africans in Africa by their colonial masters and in the Americas by the same, they necessarily would be the recipients of those genes, which they would have remixed with themselves, despite what the apparent bad science of Paabo, et. al., say -- one can simply look at the often varying skin gradations and un-uniform distribution of European facial features among these people, despite shade or complexion of skin, to witness their racial mixture.

Right, but it helped me read/see what I was writing while awaiting eye surgery. The cataract veils have been lifted, life is good. Thank God!
Wonder which of my ancestors blest me: Middleastern? Southern European? Eastern European?