Odd Cause of Humans' Dark Skin Proposed

Tuesday, February 25, 2014 - 19:30 in Biology & Nature

The early deaths of modern people in Africa who have albinism, a lack of body pigment, suggest that skin cancer pushed humanity to evolve black skin coloration.

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