Question: why do black people have thicker skin

Ross King answered on 16 Nov 2015:

Great question but I think black people have the same thickness of skin as people with lighter skin. However, where we are from can have a big effect on other things – for instance, some people who live in some parts of Africa are less likely to get the malaria disease because their red blood cells are a different shape to those of people from other countries 🙂