2003年5月1日

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肤色之谜

在世界各地，人类肤色的演变使其既能足够深以防止阳光破坏营养素叶酸，又能足够浅以促进维生素D的产生

作者：乔治·卓别林和 妮娜·G·贾布隆斯基

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Nina G. Jablonski is Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on the natural history of human skin, the origin of bipedalism, the evolution and biogeography of Old World monkeys, and the paleoecology of mammals that lived during the past two million years. She has conducted fieldwork in China, Kenya and Nepal.

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SA Special Editions Vol 13 Issue 2sThis article was originally published with the title “Skin Deep” in SA Special Editions Vol. 13 No. 2s (), p. 72
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0503-72sp
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