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Benefits & Risks of UV Radiation & Sunlight, Skin Health, Vitamin D, Nitric Oxide, Evolution of Skin Color | Richard Weller | 104

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The Evolution of Lighter Skin in Africa

Why is it that lighter skin evolves as humans migrate north away from the equator? What, what was the trade off there? Yeah. We don't really know that much. It's kind of happened. But we're not really sure there's got to be evolutionary fitness gains to dark skin in a sunny environment because,. you know, we've had 200,000 years of restriction maintaining that.

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