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From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg J Kuperberg)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Truth in Advertising?
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Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 00:21:40 EST
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> 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?
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			Greg Kuperberg
		     harvard!talcott!gjk

"  " -Charlie Chaplin, for IBM