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Type: Video
Type: Video

Skin color is an illusion

Nina Jablonski says that differing skin colors are simply our bodies’ adaptation to varied climates and levels of UV exposure. Charles Darwin disagreed with this theory, but she explains, that’s because he did not have access to NASA.

Anthropology biology evolution history Race skin color TED Talk
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