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Melaninology (SKIN/HAIR PIGMENT) with Tina Lasisi
Ologies with Alie Ward
Do You Get Hotter in High Solar Radiation Environments?
Back in the 50s, even, which is pretty recent, you can find articles where people are saying that it does not make sense that people have darker skin. There's no proven reason that it's useful at all. It's probably very maladaptive. That actually makes me wonder if you're closer to the equator and you have more skin pigment and your hair is darker, do you get hotter? And I also asked this as a transparent goth girl who has no skin pigment but were all black all the time. Boom. But still, yes.
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