Essentials of Physical Anthropology (Third Edition)
Essentials of Physical Anthropology (Third Edition)
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ISBN: 9780393938661
Author: Clark Spencer Larsen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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To discuss: Clinal variation and two physiological effects of solar radiation that likely acted as selective pressures in shaping the pattern of clinal variation observed for human skin color

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Human Variation

Human variation and evolution is shaped by environmental and biological factors. However, human variation is also the result of clinal variation. Clinal variation includes the change in skin color, cranial variation, and genetic polymorphism.

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