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How Our Ancestors Protected Themselves From the Sun Thousands of Years Before the Arrival of the Sunscreen

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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Before the invention of modern sunscreens, prehistoric people used natural means to protect themselves from the sun's harmful rays.

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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Science-et-vie.com broke the news on Monday, July 13, 2026.
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