Video: Evolutionary journey of human skin color
Human skin color is now the result of a long evolutionary process under the guidance of light from the Sun.
When ultraviolet light comes into contact with our skin, its effect on each person is a little different.
Our skin color changes day by day due to the influence of sunlight.
Depending on the skin color, it will only take a few minutes of sun exposure to turn a person into red beet skin while others need hours to make the slightest changes.
So, what explains those differences? and how are our skin colors so different?
Human skin color is now the result of a long evolutionary process under the guidance of light from the Sun.
Update 15 December 2018
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