Who came first: the dark complexion of our ancestors or skin cancer? For a long time, the researchers thought that it was the second that encouraged the development of the first. A study has just weakened this received idea. Skin cancer strikes too late to have shaped our ancestors Our distant forefathers left the forests for the African savannah. There, the sun hit hard on a skin that became almost naked. According to a study published in the m…
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Who came first: the dark complexion of our ancestors or skin cancer? For a long time, the researchers thought that it was the second that encouraged the development of the first. A study has just weakened this received idea. Skin cancer strikes too late to have shaped our ancestors Our distant forefathers left the forests for the African savannah. There, the sun hit hard on a skin that became almost naked. According to a study published in the m…