Nina G. Jablonski is an American anthropologist and palaeobiologist who’s work focusses on the social and biological meanings of skin color in humans. She completed her PhD in Anthropology in 1981 and she is currently an Evan Pugh University Professor at Pennsylvania State University. Her work spans broad yet intimately connected topics such as human evolution, human diversity, and racism. She was recently elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and in 2009, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
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Nina is the author of several books including “Living Color: The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color”, and “Skin: A Natural History” which examine the biological basis of skin pigmentation as well as the sociocultural implications of varying degrees of melanin density.
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Timestamps
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:32 - How Nina Started Studying Skin
00:11:45 - The Goldilocks Zone of UV Exposure
00:16:22 - Evolutionary Depigmentation Events
00:22:58 - Discussing Skin Pigmentation in the Medical Field
00:28:37 - Balancing Sun Exposure in Our Unnatural World
00:31:42 - Vitamin D or Sunlight?
00:39:32 - Epidemiology of Skin Cancers & Public Health Messaging
00:44:33 - How Pigmentation Impacts Addictive Behaviour Patterns
00:48:22 - Color-Based Discrimination
00:58:08 - Dissecting Race & Culture with Regard to Identity
01:01:28 - Importance of Early Childhood Education
01:05:08 - Categorical Thinking & Minimal Group Paradigm Bias
01:07:20 - Nina’s Current Projects
01:09:19 - Hair in Human Culture
01:12:59 - Outro
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