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From: w.p.coyne@uk.ac.newcastle
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: DST Harmful?
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.155634.1057@newcastle.ac.uk>
Date: 10 Apr 91 15:56:34 GMT
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minsky@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Marvin Minsky) writes:
>  Another question is whether it is OK for us neo-humans to
>inhabit the temperate zones.  If our ancestors migrated from the
>tropics a mere few dozen millenia ago, perhaps the changes in season
>length is bad for us.  It's not as though summer and winter are
>"natural", after all.

Well the time was long enough for them to evolve light skin. (What advantage
does a lighter skin give over a darker skin?  heat retention?)
And talking of skin colour do the esquemoes (sp?) have skin as light as north
europeans?
 
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