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By protecting against cutaneous inflammation, epidermal pigmentation provided an additional advantage for ancestral humans
Pigmentation evolved in ancestral humans to protect against toxic, ultraviolet B irradiation, but the question remains: “what is being protected?” Because humans with dark pigmentation display a suite of superior epidermal functions in comparison with their more lightly pigmented counterparts, we hy...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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John Wiley and Sons Inc.
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6824065/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31700538 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eva.12858 |