First Dark Sun Excerpt!!!

[DracoSuave]

Yeah, because evolutionary adaptation works on millennial scales instead of millions and millions of years like everyone thinks.

Plus they would have tans.

 

[Squizzle]

Depending what being "dark" meant for the sun's energy output (and completely ignoring that it's a fantasy world), lighter skin might evolve. As others have led me to understand, more melanin inhibits vitamin D production in low-UV environments. If the Dark Sun is a low-UV sun, then lighter skin becomes a selective advantage.

 

[DracoSuave]

Depending what being "dark" meant for the sun's energy output (and completely ignoring that it's a fantasy world), lighter skin might evolve. As others have led me to understand, more melanin inhibits vitamin D production in low-UV environments. If the Dark Sun is a low-UV sun, then lighter skin becomes a selective advantage.

The sun turned red cause the people killed all the plants. Athas's sun seems to be directly in tune with the life on the planet.

I'm just saying, this ain't no science sun.

 

[Squizzle]

Science Sun is totally a setting I would play in.