Given what we know about the adaptive significance of human skin color,and the fact that,until 800,000 years ago,hominids were exclusively creatures of the tropics,it is likely that lightly pigmented skins are quite an ancient development in human history.

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Lightly pigmented skin is a relatively recent development in human history, evolving as humans migrated to higher latitudes with less intense sunlight, allowing for better synthesis of vitamin D in environments with less UV radiation. Early hominids in the tropics would have had darkly pigmented skin to protect against UV radiation.

Given What We Know About the Adaptive Significance of Human