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Researcher in the field measures skin colour

Gene study shows human skin tone has varied for 900,000 years

12 October 2017

An analysis of genetic variation and skin pigmentation suggests that some particularly dark skin tones evolved relatively recently from paler genetic variants

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Gene study shows human skin tone has varied for 900,000 years

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