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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Jared Diamond is in the Department of Geography, 1255 Bunche Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1524, USA. jdiamond@geog.ucla.edu
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