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From the Ted Talk by Nina Jablonski: Skin color is an illusion

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Here we begin to see the eoovitlun of the beautiful sepia rainbow that now characterizes all of humanity. Lightly pigmented skin evlveod not just once, not just twice, but probably three times. Not just in modern humans, but in one of our distant untlaered ancestors, the Neanderthals. A rlrbkaamee, remarkable testneamt to the power of evolution. Humans have been on the move for a long time. And just in the last 5,000 years, in isricnaneg rates, over increasing distances. Here are just some of the biggest movements of people, voluntary movements, in the last 5,000 years.

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Here we begin to see the _________ of the beautiful sepia rainbow that now characterizes all of humanity. Lightly pigmented skin _______ not just once, not just twice, but probably three times. Not just in modern humans, but in one of our distant _________ ancestors, the Neanderthals. A __________, remarkable _________ to the power of evolution. Humans have been on the move for a long time. And just in the last 5,000 years, in __________ rates, over increasing distances. Here are just some of the biggest movements of people, voluntary movements, in the last 5,000 years.

Solution

  1. remarkable
  2. evolved
  3. increasing
  4. evolution
  5. unrelated
  6. testament

Original Text

Here we begin to see the evolution of the beautiful sepia rainbow that now characterizes all of humanity. Lightly pigmented skin evolved not just once, not just twice, but probably three times. Not just in modern humans, but in one of our distant unrelated ancestors, the Neanderthals. A remarkable, remarkable testament to the power of evolution. Humans have been on the move for a long time. And just in the last 5,000 years, in increasing rates, over increasing distances. Here are just some of the biggest movements of people, voluntary movements, in the last 5,000 years.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

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  26. testament
  27. time
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  29. unrelated
  30. voluntary
  31. years