The pale skin some of us defectives have (making us more susceptable to skin cancer seems to be a result of a mutation.
I'm assuming you're being facetious, though I worry others reading the thread won't quite get it - so I'll throw in a quote from your reference describing the benefits of (the mutation and) pale skin:
Parra writes:
But in Europe, darker complexions interfered with the body's ability to absorb enough ultraviolet light to synthesize vitamin D, important for bone growth. This means people with paler skin would have a survival advantage, he explained.
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