1. Darkest shaded of color
2. Racial/ethnic term: A black is a person with a majority of ancestors that stayed in sub-Saharan
African during homo S. Sapian's original exodus from the continent. Blacks are the most genetically diverse race on
Earth including some of the
world's tallest (watusi) and shortest (pygmies) ethnic groups.
Today Black
people live on every continent however they are most commonly found in sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribean, and the Americas. The term black is sometimes applied to the aboriginals of Australia however they are desecended from homo
S. Sapian's original out of Africa migration, and thus are only black in a skin color descriptive sense, and not in a racial, genetic, or ethnic sense. Because of
America's one drop rule, the term black is also sometimes applied to
people with only half-black ancestry such as Halle Barry, and Bob Marley, however these
people have a roughly equal mix of black and non-black ancestry, and thus are only black in a socio-political sense, and are more accurately described as multi-racial.
