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Throughout the world, human skin color has evolved to be dark enough to prevent sunlight from destroying the nutrient folate but light enough to foster the production of vitamin D
Among primates, only humans have a mostly naked skin that comes in different colors. Geographers and anthropologists
have long recognized that the distribution of skin colors among indigenous
This article was originally published with the title Skin Deep.
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