we all know a human body adapts to environmental conditions. change in the colour of the skin is one obvious example of such adaptation. people who live for prolonged periods in hot, sunny climes have produced a defence mechanism against the harmful ultraviolet radiation in the form of eumelanin, the darker of the two forms of melanin (pheumelanin + eumelanin) produced by the body, that effectively filter out the harmful rays.

people who have had to exist in cold climates have evolved thicker bone mass, more fat under the skin. they are more lethargic in movement, haveless energetic bodies to conserve energy. they tend to be stocky, have shorter limbsdecreasing their surface area and limiting heat loss this way. the point at which their bodies makes contact with the cold earth is also significantly reduced in size, resulting in smaller feet, or higher arches under the soles of the feet so that the weight of the body is supported at different points in the foot.

i doubt if there is anything I have said here that is new to you.

there is however another form of adaptationn that has largely been overlooked by science, and that is the adaptation that occurs due to cultural influences, the adaptation that is largely invisible to the naked eye, but occurs and changes the whole individual to the extent he becomes as distinct from another who has not beenexposed to the same conditions asblue eyes are frombrown eyes.

scientists bent on promoting colonialism tried to argue this point, but in a sense they tried to support their preconceptions about racial superiority. their position went along the line if human beings are more intelligent than apes because of evolution, since the same evolutionary forces did not act to the same degreeon every part of the human group, thenthere are chances that some humans are more human than other humans mentally.

logically speaking, this is a real possibility. groups of human beings far removed from other groups in geography may have indeed developed aspects of their mental capacities at a faster rate than other human beings, and it could very well be those very attributes that count for entry into the homosapiensapiens group. the problem with this theory is pinpointing the aspect of human intelligence that is crucial to this process,let alonedeciding which of the many facets of our intelligence isthe onesince development in isolation ultimately gives to each attributes that are not found in the other. in other words, to point out a racial characteristic as more evolved would be to make the mistake of comparing a dog to a cat.

as i said already, scientists who were arguing this point were in it for colonial reasons, and not for science, so that one didn't go too far.

what science hasignored are adaptational changes clearly seen in humans societies today, among the few races that have distinguished themselves, that themselves can be used as distinguishers of race,that have nothing to do with nature, but with culture. some of these are physical, readily seen, while others manifest in inclinations. musical preference is a good example of this. white kids have musical inclinations that are quite distinct from black kids, that are not dependent on the mileau they are brought up in. this involves both the expression of or the reation to music.

apart from adaptation to hot climates where energy conservation was not an issue, black energyexpressed in more athletic abilities cannot be a mere product of the environment, but of a culture that encouraged such athleticism. inother words,the present black physique cannot wholly be attributed to adaptation, but is also a product of conscious decisions about direction and shape of the race made by members of the race. the black race in its present form was created in part by nature, and conscious engineering. there came a point when Afrikans realized they could decide the shape of the future blak.

there is aconnected issue that i came accross in the Library some time ago.

in 1973, Pathe Diagne, a French researcher in Afrika, Burundi, conducted an experiment on school children. he taught some children using their mother tongue, while another was instructed in French. Afterwards the childrenn were given tests. 5% of the children taught using French passed the exams, while 75% of the children taught in their mother tongue (Lingala or Swahili I believe) passed the exam. Pathe Diagne's conclusion to this surprising disparity in results was that the children taught in the foreign language had arrested linguistic and hence intellectual development as a result of stepping from one language to another at such a tender age. this may be true, but to me the reason for the difference in comprehending capacities lies more with adaptation than anything else that may be given as a reason.

it is my belief that the mental apparatus of the African actually adapted to the language, or at least the logic of languages spoken by the people for generations and generations. Stability andn longevityof culture was an Afrikan thing, at least until there were the disruptions from the north that led to mass migrations. the Kemetian calendar prior to the Greek usurption of power ran for a few thousand years, an era in which the main language seldom changed, when most of the discoveries and inventions that makeour present civilization possible were made.

something MUST have happened to the shape of the African mind during such prolonged exposure to a stable culture. a marriage between the tools of the civilization, of which spoken and written language is one, must have taken place.

Afrikans can do well using languages that are structurally dissimilar to this ancient language, a language that is very similar in structure to many present day African tongues, but their creativity is far much higher when their minds are usingthis congenialmedium that their mindsdeveloped, that in turn helped develop the very minds... to which their minds adapted.

this is to say the Afrikan mind finds better, if not more efficientexpression using a means of communication and thought facilitation that is congenial to the way the mind is designed to function, and only if the continent returns to this medium of communication will the difference Pathe Diagne recorded in this experiment be expressed on a continent wide scale...