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		cool-RR on Dec 15, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why are Europeans the whitest people on the planet... Maybe it's because they were spending less time in the sun? Please deliver my Nobel prize in the mail, thanks.

henrikschroder on Dec 15, 2009 [–]

If you had actually bothered to read the article, you would have found out that it's the other way around. White people have less pigment to maximize the amount of vitamin D that can be synthesized given the little sunlight they receive.

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