Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site talcott.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!genrad!wjh12!talcott!gjk From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg J Kuperberg) Newsgroups: net.cooks,net.flame Subject: Re: Re: Re: Truth in Advertising? Message-ID: <135@talcott.UUCP> Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 00:21:40 EST Article-I.D.: talcott.135 Posted: Wed Nov 28 00:21:40 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Nov-84 08:44:44 EST References: <2559@dartvax.UUCP> <642@watdcsu.UUCP> <1245@utah-gr.UUCP>, <2804@ucbcad.UUCP> <5085@duke.UUCP> Organization: Harvard Lines: 29 Xref: sdcsvax net.cooks:2682 net.flame:6695 > People in sunnier climates tend to get more ultraviolet exposure. > They therefore have developed darker skins since melanin (which > makes the skin darker or tanner) is the major defense against > UV that the skin has. > > This sounds Lysenko-ist, but you can make a straight evolutionary > argument by noting that people with darker skin are less likely > to get skin cancer. > > -- > What is the sound of one hand, clapping? > Toop, toop, toop. > > > Charlie Martin > (...mcnc!duke!crm) It is beyond me that this person, along with the eight or nine others that posted replies, did not notice the sarcasm in Wayne's article. I myself have had this info about melanin drilled into my head since fourth grade. Ok, who's going to give an explanation for this one: Where do babies come from? ----- Greg Kuperberg harvard!talcott!gjk " " -Charlie Chaplin, for IBM