肤色深浅的奥秘(国外英文资料).docVIP

肤色深浅的奥秘(国外英文资料) The mystery of dark skin , fang, What color is the skin of a chimpanzee? Of course its black! You may answer without thinking. What you see is the color of the chimpanzee hair. Keep an eye on the small chimpanzees face, foot, and so on In part, you can see that the skin color is actually very light. In East Africa millions of years ago, the ancestors of our human ancestors and the ancestors of chimpanzees came to different things Evolutionary path. We can imagine that human ancestors were similar to todays chimpanzees, and dark hair Hair is covered with light skin. When the human ancestors took off their hair, they became naked apes and the light-colored skin was completely violent The dew came out, and it became the white ape. But why is the skin color of African natives today Is it so deep that it is literally called black? The depth of skin tone depends on the amount and size of melanin in the skin. Under the suns ultraviolet light, The amount and size of melanin particles also increase, which is called tanning. Melanin is the bodys natural sunscreen Frost to absorb ultraviolet light from the sun. If the uv rays are not blocked, they will not only burn the skin but also be more severe The heavy thing is that it damages the DNA in the skin cells, causing malignant skin cancer -- melanoma. The lighter the skin Skin cancer, for example, is ten times more common in white America than black americans. Apparently, human ancestors had to protect their skin from the intense sun of Africa when they stripped off their hair. The answer appears to be It is obvious that the skin of human ancestors is darker, the result of natural selection, to prevent skin cancer. But the answer There is a loophole in the case. Skin cancer usually occurs after years of exposure to ultraviolet light, which occurs when the disease occurs People have often entered the reproductive stage and have long left their offspring, and natural selection is done by controlling the number o