Skin Colour.
Professor Lionel W. Lyle, at a recent B.M.A. Congress in Birmingham, dealt with the climatic control of skin-colour, wherein he points out that they were in a position to say that primitive man was dark-skinned, and that when he began to make his way northward he began to bleach, thus recreating a semi-primitive yellow type. This yellow man, exposed to conditions of cold and moisture, might become entirely white. The human ikin develops pigments to protect itself against the strong sun, and the quantity of pigments in the skin varied with the intensity of the sun. It is therefore in men who live in the hottest and least shaded parti of the world that we find the blackest skin. The white peoples, on the contrary, are confined to a region where the humidity of the atmosphere formed a icreen against the rays of the sun.
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Northland Age, Volume VIII, Issue 11, 3 November 1911, Page 5
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