[decimon]

Wanderer ping.

[caseinpoint]

Okay, here we go:

Father: dark brown hair, blue eyes, pale skin which burns easily and does not tan. Ancestors hail from England, Denmark, Germany and The Netherlands.

Mother: light brown hair, blue eyes, light skin with pale freckles. Tans only reluctantly. Ancestors from Scotland, Norway and Denmark.

Daughter #1: bright red hair, blue eyes, alabaster skin. Does not tan at all.

Daughter #2: brown hair, blue eyes, olive skin, tans fastastically.

No, there was no fooling around.

[xjcsa]

The researchers note that the ability to tan developed in a wide variety of peoples and while the outcome, tanablity, is the same, the underlying genetic mechanisms are not necessarily identical.

Somebody's just making up words.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

When I worked construction jobs during high school and college the super came up to me once and said “If you get any darker, we’re going to start counting you as a minority”.

[slowhandluke]

Yet another scare article full of 'may/should/might'.

A real study is more like this one that actually measured Vitamin D production against skin color.

Vitamin D Production after UVB Exposure Depends on Baseline Vitamin D and Total Cholesterol but Not on Skin Pigmentation

[Recon Dad]

Damn Irish!

[colorado tanker]

Thanks for spreading the word. Girls, stay healthy and go get that Vitamin D!

[FourPeas]

For a supposedly colorblind society, what a sad, sad way to begin an article. Blame their ancestors for living in the north, versus thank theirs for living in the south? So, skin color *does* matter?