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My friend told me she saw this video saying that white people came from apes and the reason why they're so pale is because they evolved the most and black people evolved the least and that's why we still have big noses and big lips and white people have the opposite.
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In a scientific sense "evolved more" doesn't mean anything. Every species/race evolves to fit its environment, there is no forwards direction or definite goal. But yes black people have changed less, noticeably in physical appearance, since our (white people's) ancestors left their original environment first.
The genetic differences between Europeans and Africans are so tiny and negligible that we are indisputably the same species. That's just scientific fact.
Changes in skin colour are adaptations to the environment. Africans (and South Asians and indigenous Amazonians) have dark skin as a natural defense to very strong sunlight, which is needed in equatorial regions. In contrast, Europeans and North-East Asians do not get a lot of sunlight at those latitudes, so our ancestors (who were probably dark-skinned thousands of years ago) gradually developed lighter skin that can react to subtle changes in sunlight more to help develop vitamin D.
An "adaption" is not complete evolution. It's just a very tiny step towards it, no one group of humans has changed enough to have branched off into a separate species... yet.
Humans evolved to have various colours and shapes depending on long-term climate and environment. Heading away from the equator tended to make for lighter skin and narrower noses to do with heat regulation. There are no sudden changes if you do the journey slowly, it's a gradual process. If you walk from equator to pole there is no place where black people suddenly become white people, you will see the features changing slowly, ie 'race' is a man-made category division.