Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Our human ancestors only evolved black skin after losing all their hair, study claims

Dark skin appeared a million years ago to stop ancestors dying of cancer

Previously, they would have had pale skin under their hair

New evidence indicates the lethal

effects of the sun’s rays may have exerted powerful selection pressure

on early humans up to 1.8 million years ago


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Our human ancestors only evolved black skin after losing all their hair, study claims




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