Benefits & Risks of UV Radiation & Sunlight, Skin Health, Vitamin D, Nitric Oxide, Evolution of Skin Color | Richard Weller | 104
Mind & Matter
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The Evolution of the Light Skin Phenotype
The light skin phenotypes evolved multiple times or there's this connection with farming, right? So you have to get to high latitude slash low light environment. And in addition to that, you basically have to become a more sedentary farmer compared to our hunter gatherer ancestors. Does it have anything to do with diet? Do we think? Do we know anything? Is there a connection there? Yeah. Will it, will it could be? That's one of the things because what we're now trying to tie up is observational and mechanistic stuff.
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