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... Skin color and facial form provide the most widely used criteria for racial classifications . The real test of the utility and significance of the geographical races concerns the extent to which traits of skin color and facial form have ...
... Skin color and facial form provide the most widely used criteria for racial classifications . The real test of the utility and significance of the geographical races concerns the extent to which traits of skin color and facial form have ...
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... geographic distributions may involve a relationship between skin color and the ultraviolet component in solar radiation . Dark skin color results from the presence of the pigment melanin . When the skin [ 6 ] The Origin of Racial ...
... geographic distributions may involve a relationship between skin color and the ultraviolet component in solar radiation . Dark skin color results from the presence of the pigment melanin . When the skin [ 6 ] The Origin of Racial ...
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... skin absorbs as much as 15 percent more heat than sunburned white skin , rendering blacks more prone to heat stroke than Europeans ( Baker 1958 ) . Other objections have been raised against using natural selection to explain skin color ...
... skin absorbs as much as 15 percent more heat than sunburned white skin , rendering blacks more prone to heat stroke than Europeans ( Baker 1958 ) . Other objections have been raised against using natural selection to explain skin color ...
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Population Genetics | 13 |
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Suborder Anthropoidea versus Suborder Prosimii | 27 |
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