Re:Neurodiversity
by up_so_floating on Sunday January 01, 2017 @12:13PM
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Your body evolved skin to suit an environment other than a Thai beach. I would not consider that genetic inferiority.
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Re:Neurodiversity
by jessriedel on Sunday January 01, 2017 @12:29PM
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Pale skin is thought to have evolved as a rapid (last ~5k years) and crude adaptation to avoid vitamin D deficiency shortly after farming was developed and allowed non-animal-based diets at the very high latitudes of northern Europe.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/04/how-europeans-evolved...
It is reasonable to think that there the significant drawbacks associated with that hacked-together solution are no longer necessary because modern diets easily give adequate vitamin D.
So you're saying pale skin is a "hacked together" solution but modern vitamin supplements are not?
Re:Neurodiversity
by jessriedel on Sunday January 01, 2017 @02:27PM
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No, that's not what I'm saying.