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Why do african people have dark skin​

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Dark- skinned populations inhabiting africa, Australia,melanesia, papua new guinea and South Asia all live in some of the areas with the highest uv radiation in the world,and have evolved very dark skin pigmentation as protection from the sun's harmful rays

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The effect the sun has on them

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