Our ancient ancestors didn’t have clothes or houses – but that constant exposure to the sun helped their skin protect itself from the worst sun damage.
- Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology, Penn State
For parents, skin colour is often a difficult subject and dealing with it through storytelling can be a useful aid.
Racism affects health and often leads to early death. We now know in greater and more alarming detail how this happens.
When we use ‘race’ we need to be very specific about what we mean. Race is not biology, nor is it class.
There are, scientifically, no human races. How did race come to have this power and this durability?
Many theories have been proposed for the evolution of dark skin pigmentation – and a new paper revives one of the oldest: that skin cancer was a more potent selective force for the evolution of protective…
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