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Melaninology (SKIN/HAIR PIGMENT) with Tina Lasisi
Ologies with Alie Ward
Evolution by Natural Selection
Anthropologist Dr. Lecisi has co-authored papers with anthropologist Nina Jablonsky, who also happens to be an anthropologist at Penn State. "Seeing this map or these two sets of maps broke those boxes for me," she says about a 2010 study that showed the differences in skin pigments between North and South America. She explains how we've evolved so quickly since cars and planes and boats because it's relatively recently that we've gotten around so rapidly. 'Evolution doesn't care about you post-reproductively,' he says: It just wants people to have babies.
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