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Adapting to ultraviolet (UV) light

dark skin very dark skin
     African and Indian peoples evolved heavily pigmented skins; but not all scientists are convinced that dark skin evolved only as an adaptation for protection against the sun's ultraviolet light. The bushmen of central Africa have dark skins, but live in tropical rainforest where there is little exposure to UV light.


             bushman of central Africa

           One of the dark-skinned race that has inhabited Australasia             for  thousands of years. They migrated there from Polynesia,            but are  related to African peoples.
                Scandinavian child

             A child of the short Scandinavian summer, with a deep sun
              tan and nearly white hair.
 
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