At 17:38 1999-09-30 -0400, Bruce Sherrod wrote:

>    of cancer is not common among hunter-gatherers, despite the fact
>    that they spend so much time in the sun.

They get used to the sun, get more pigment, as they stay outside so much.
This works for me also, although I am red-haired, if I just take it
easy in the beginning of the summer.
Also, if the skin is severely sunburnt, it falls off, so that one gets
rid of mutated cells.

- Hans