The Biology of Skin Color: ‘Some theories
advanced before the 1970s tended to be racist, and others were
less than convincing. White skin, for example, was reported to
be more resistant to cold weather, although groups like the Inuit
are both dark and particularly resistant to cold. After the 1970s,
when researchers were presumably more aware of the
controversy such studies could kick up, there was very little
work at all. “It’s one of these things everybody notices,”
(anthropologist Nina) Jablonski says, “but nobody wants to talk about.” ‘ Discover