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The Evolution of Tanning Needs Its Day in the Sun.

Human biology - 1 Oct 2015

Quillen Ellen E

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Variation in human pigmentation has long been an area of interest in biological anthropology, with the advent of genetic technologies allowing deeper plumbing of its evolutionary history. Genome-wide scans of selection show that pigmentation genes have undergone some of the strongest selection in many geographically distant populations. A variety of hypotheses for the photoprotective effects of melanin have been...

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PMID: 27737586
DOI: 10.13110/humanbiology.87.4.0352

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