Melanin Memes

Evolution: "You wanted different skin colors to protect from UV radiation? Great idea! Let me just... *frantically coding DNA*" Humans: "Thanks! We'll definitely use this adaptive trait responsibly and not create entire systems of oppression based on it!" Evolution: *facepalms in natural selection* The darkest joke here isn't the meme—it's that melanin, which evolved as a brilliant UV protection mechanism, became the basis for humanity's most absurd social construct. Darwin's rolling in his grave thinking, "This is NOT what I meant by 'survival of the fittest.'"