Monday, August 15, 2011

I have a profound fear of having ancestors that originate outside of Europe WHAT DO I DO?

So what? We ALL came out of Africa to begin with, but those of us who lived in the higher latitudes gradually over many generations lost our skin pigmentation. This was nature selecting those whose light skin absorbed more vitamin D and so saved them from the main adverse effect of living where sunlight was less , namely, rickets.

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