Developing Light Skin in Europe

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Interesting... The Woman Who Got Bromine Out of Kids’ Pajamas Fears It’s Coming Back | College of Chemistry

 

[gln1955]

Ah ok, I wore PJs through the 60's and 70's so yeah, I'm probably sufficiently mutagenned hah. Might explain some things hehe

There was enough stuff in the air and water back then that our PJs were the least of our worries.

 

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There was enough stuff in the air and water back then that our PJs were the least of our worries.

Tell me about it - my oldest sister was born with abnormalities due to some drug or another they fed my mom during pregnancy (and destroyed all records of after). Might been Thalidomide even. Amazing any of us survived.

 

[fdeck]

AKA "skin cancer susceptible skin". Sigh. Always tradeoffs involved. Amazing that Vitamin D is important enough to be worth the increased risk.

Early humans might not have lived long enough to worry about cancer. Also, I wonder when humans stopped being hairy compared to the apes. The hair would have been a sun screen.

I also wonder why we lost our hair. Maybe it has to do with avoiding tick and lice borne diseases.

 

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Early humans might not have lived long enough to worry about cancer. Also, I wonder when humans stopped being hairy compared to the apes. The hair would have been a sun screen.

I also wonder why we lost our hair. Maybe it has to do with avoiding tick and lice borne diseases.

And we didn't need the insulating value after we started wearing other crittter's pelts over our own. That's far enough back that it could've affected genetics by now sure...

 

[gln1955]

Early humans might not have lived long enough to worry about cancer. Also, I wonder when humans stopped being hairy compared to the apes. The hair would have been a sun screen.

I also wonder why we lost our hair. Maybe it has to do with avoiding tick and lice borne diseases.

Why did we keep it on our heads and a few other places?

 

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Yeah and do Dwarven women really have beards?

(hehe sorry)

 

[Tom Bomb]

Did Ancient People Die Young? Good question. It's hit and myth. I, being ancient myself, prefer to Angus Young. And sun kicks are a thing. We get our kicks, if we have any sense.

D for dunce?​

 

[Duckherder]

Ah ok, I wore PJs through the 60's and 70's so yeah, I'm probably sufficiently mutagenned hah. Might explain some things hehe

Sorry, but for some reason I thought that you were in your 20's.

Lugol's Solution and Halogens

 

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Sorry, but for some reason I thought that you were in your 20's.

Lugol's Solution and Halogens

+40 haha