QED With Dr. B
Skin Color Is A Human Adaptation
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Skin color is an adaptive trait by humans who migrated out of Africa 100,000 years ago.
Dr. Nina Jablonski, professor of anthropology at Penn State & author, The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color (2012) discusses how skin color is an adaptive trait by humans who migrated out of Africa 100,000 years ago and is tied to exposure to UV rays.
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QED With Dr. B is a local public television program presented by WOSU
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QED With Dr. B
Skin Color Is A Human Adaptation
Clip: Season 1 Episode 2 | 5m 33sVideo has Closed Captions
Dr. Nina Jablonski, professor of anthropology at Penn State & author, The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color (2012) discusses how skin color is an adaptive trait by humans who migrated out of Africa 100,000 years ago and is tied to exposure to UV rays.
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Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical
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Clip: S1 Ep2 | 3m 29s | Researchers have found that humans are 99.9% identical. (3m 29s)
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Support for QED with Dr. B is provided by Battelle, American Electric Power Foundation, Bath & Body Works Foundation, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and William and Diane Dawson Foundation.