[neetdeth]

For skin cancer narrowly, sure. I don't know what it's like to live with white skin near the equator with primitive or no clothing and no access to sunscreen, though. Losing melanin every winter, getting scorched every summer... It seems like you'd have an individual who is pretty useless for persistence hunting across the savannah. On the other side, a darker skinned individual may experience lethargy and malaise in winter at higher latitude. So we should broaden the considerations to include chronic, nonlethal conditions, and competitive sexual selection amplifies their effects. This was my only point.

> A common example might be the preference for lighter skin in mates that we unfortunately find in several cultures. Maybe we should start calling it eugenics instead of softening it to artificial selection.

You can do that if you want. People really like their mate preferences and this seems more likely to soften their perception of eugenics as a concept than the other way around.