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GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION IN HUMAN GENES -- 3
Geographic Variation in Darkness of Hair and Eye Coloration in Aboriginal Human PopulationsDark coloration predominates everywhere else in the world."Aboriginal" refers to populations in their locations about 1500 AD (before the massive movements of people in the past 500 years)! From W. F. Bodmer and L. L. Cavalli-Sforza. 1976. Genetics, evolution, and man. San Francisco: Freeman.
Geographic Variation in Skin Darkness of Aboriginal Human Populations"Aboriginal" again refers to populations in their locations about 1500 AD (before the massive movements of people in the past 500 years)!Values are presumably percentage of sunlight absorbed (higher values for darker skin ... details of procedure not described in this reference). From W. F. Bodmer and L. L. Cavalli-Sforza. 1976. Genetics, evolution, and man. San Francisco: Freeman.
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