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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (51089)	3/1/2008 7:12:09 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 544021

I'm sorry you don't get it. I don't know what to tell you. This sentence is what you should concentrate on: Although human beings generally possess a similar concentration of melanocytes in their skin, the melanocytes in some individuals and ethnic groups more frequently or less frequently express the melanin-producing genes, thereby conferring a greater or lesser concentration of skin melanin [which determines color. So our color has importance in terms of biology. It "means" something about our genetics, and it changes out ability to stand sunlight, and to make vitamin D (to use just one example, of why the color of your skin is important.] brackets mine Whites make vitamin D in low sun levels much better than brown people, because our white skin is adapted to a different level of light. Brown and black skin is protective when one lives in areas of very high sun exposure. This might be a better article for you: en.wikipedia.org