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Human skin pigmentation as an adaptation to UV radiation

Human skin pigmentation is the product of two clines produced by natural selection to adjust levels of constitutive pigmentation to levels of UV radiation (UVR). One cline was generated by high UVR near the equator and led to the evolution of dark, photoprotective, eumelanin-rich pigmentation. The o...

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Main Authors: Jablonski, Nina G., Chaplin, George
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: National Academy of Sciences 2010
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3024016/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20445093
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0914628107
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