Essays on the U.S. Color Line » Blog Archive » Why Are Europeans White? (E1)

The Puzzle: Northern Europeans are Uniquely Depigmented “White,” of course, is a a social designation. The question really is, “Why are northern Europeans depigmented?” Here is a map of human skin tone. The natives of northern Europe are oddly light-skinned. They are paler than anyone else on earth. Most people know that it has something to do with sunlight, UV, latitude, and vitamin D. Here is a