Tag: Iain Mathieson

  • How Europeans evolved white skin Science 2015-04-02 DOI: 10.1126/science.aab2435 Ann Gibbons, Contributing Correspondent ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI—Most of us think of Europe as the ancestral home of white people. But a new study shows that pale skin, as well as other traits such as tallness and the ability to digest milk as adults, arrived in most…