Skin cancer was not a potent selective force in the evolution of protective pigmentation in early hominins

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1789, 2014, Pages

  Jablonski, Nina G ^a   Chaplin, George ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANIN;

ALBINISM; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HOMINID; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SKIN TUMOR;

ALBINISM; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HOMINIDAE; MELANINS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOPATHOLOGY; SELECTION, GENETIC; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

EID: 84903699810     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0517     Document Type: Note

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