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Please I need help on this questions.
1. How does skin cancer not exert enough evolutionary pressure to account for darker skin in humans?
2. How does folate deficiency exert enough evolutionary pressure to account for darker skin in humans?
3. What is one indispensable function of UVB rays in the human body? How does this exert evolutionary pressure on human skin color?
4. Briefly describe the 2 reasons why the Inuit people exhibit somewhat darker skin levels than would be predicted given the UV levels at their latitude.
5. Briefly explain why skin color is described as "one of the least useful characteristics in determining the evolutionary relations between human groups"?
6. Do biologists typically classify specific forms of traits as good or bad? For example, long tails in cats could be classified as good and short tails as bad. Explain the reasoning or evidence behind your answer.
7. If you travel north from the equator, what generally happens to the intensity of ultraviolet (UV) light?
8. How does the synthesis of melanin by melanocytes help protect the other cells in your skin?