Human skin comes in many different shades. Recent studies of geographical differences in skin colour open up the subject scientifically by offering sophisticated accounts of the basis of this variation.
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Diamond, J. Geography and skin colour. Nature 435, 283–284 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/435283a
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