Cultural Anthropology The Human Challenge

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According to Cultural Anthropology:The Human Challenge, an anthropology college textbook, written by William A. Haviland et al., it states what adaptation is and the role of adaptation in human variation in skin color. Adaptation is “ a series of beneficial adjustments of organisms of their environment” (73). Depending on where our body has adapted means that “having biological characteristics best suited to a particular environment survive and reproduce with greater frequency than do individuals without those characteristics”(74). If we are not used to the environment we are in, we will not be able to reproduce. We need to adapt or else we will not be able to reproduce and will eventually die. Based on our skin color will depend on how much