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Vitamin A - Pigment
Forum List | Follow Ups | Post Message | Back to Thread Topics | In Response To Posted by John Huggins on September 14, 2001 20:10:11 UTC |
I thought skin pigmentation was a way to regulate (in a society wide sense) the production of Vitamin A in the skin from sunlight. Thus, humans from the tropics have dark skin to temper the production of Vitamin A, while pale white folks need to maximize production from less sunlight.
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