Human Skin Color Evidence for Selection Educator Materials

Human Evolution Revised April 2018 Page 1 of 4 Activity Educator Materials Human Skin Color : Evidence for Selection OVERVIEW This activity supports the viewing of the short film The Biology of Skin Color . Students watch the film in segments and use real data to propose hypotheses, make predictions, and justify claims with Evidence . KEY CONCEPTS Within a population, heritable traits that provide a survival and reproductive advantage in a particular environment are more likely than other traits to be passed on to the next generation and thus tend to become more common over time. These traits are known as adaptations. Human populations living in different parts of the world have different sets of evolutionary adaptations.

Human Skin Color: Evidence for Selection Human Evolution Revised April 2018 www.BioInteractive.org Page 4 of 4 Activity Educator Materials 22. Based on everything that you have learned so far, provide an explanation for how the different shades of skin color from pinkish white to dark brown evolved throughout human history.

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