ancient civilisations and empires in history

let's list 'em.
off the top of my head, there's ancient greece (philosophy! sculpture! tragedy!), rome (gladiators), the byzantine empire/constantinople (mosaics, awesome architecture), ancient india (uh.. elephants?), ancient egypt (pyramids and papyrus!) .. ancient china (vases, funny hats and robes), feudal japan (ninjas)

am I missing any? add please.

Skin tone is skin deep. So is hair color. And eye color.
One word: cosmetic.

That goes for that skull shape thing too; the eyes didn't suddenly swap places with the mouth or something, did it? The same things are in the same places, just with some extremely minor changes largely due to cultural preferances.

Remember, it's been some 2500 generations since that Out Of Africa thing, both for us and the folks back in Africa. The change this has done to us is basically cosmetic. At least I assume that's what those previous posters mean with nothing whatsoever having changed.


Oh, and if anyone's had some 25k+ generations, that'll be those gorillas. And they've been largely stationary. We've gone from endangered (read: genetically largely identical) to global in way less.