Antiquity 515 BCScylax explores the Indus and the sea route across the Indian Ocean to Egypt.330 BCAlexander the Great conquers parts of Central Asia and parts of northwestern India300 BCSeleucus Nica ...
The Arabic word nejd literally means "upland" and was once applied to a variety of regions within the Arabian Peninsula. However, the most famous of these was the central region of the Peninsula rough ...
Approximately 12 million Africans were shipped to the Americas during the Atlantic slave trade from 1492 to 1888, with 11.5 million of those shipped to South America and the Caribbean. Brazil was the ...
The term black people is an everyday English-language phrase, often used in socially-based systems of racial classification or of ethnicity to describe persons who are defined as belonging to a "black ...
ype Also called Sunburning Tanning behavior Von Luschan's chromatic scaleI Light, pale white Often Occasionally 1–5II White, fair Usually Sometimes 6–10III Medium, white to light brown Rarely Usuall ...
In Hominids the parts of the body not covered with hair, like the face and the back of the hands, starts out pale in infants and turns darker as animals are exposed to more sun. All human babies are b ...
Main article: MelaninMelanin is produced by cells called melanocytes in a process called melanogenesis. Melanin is made within small membrane–bound packages called melanosomes. As they become full of ...
Interactions between organisms can produce both conflict and co-operation. When the interaction is between pairs of species, such as a pathogen and a host, or a predator and its prey, these species ca ...
From a Neo-Darwinian perspective, evolution occurs when there are changes in the frequencies of alleles within a population of interbreeding organisms. For example, the allele for black colour in a po ...
Further information: History of evolutionary thoughtThe proposal that one type of animal could descend from an animal of another type goes back to some of the first pre-Socratic Greek philosophers, su ...
Not much is known about al-Jā?i?'s early life, but his family was very poor. Born in Basra early in 160/February 776, he asserted in a book he wrote that he was a member of the Arabian tribe Banu K ...
In Eastern Arabia's Arab States of the Persian Gulf, descendants of Africans perform Liwa and Fann At-Tanbura music and dance. The mizmar is also performed by Afro-Arabs in the Tihamah and Hejaz regio ...
Environmental determinism's origins go back to antiquity, where it is first encountered in a fifth-century medical treatise ascribed to Hippocrates: Airs, Waters, Places. In Roman times it is, for exa ...
Physiographically, Eurasia is a single continent. The concepts of Europe and Asia as distinct continents date back to antiquity and their borders are geologically arbitrary, with the Ural and Caucasus ...
The Nuzhat al-mushtāq fi'khtirāq al-āfāq (Arabic: ???? ??????? ?? ?????? ???????, lit. "the book of pleasant journeys into faraway lands"), most often known as the Tabula ...
