As a comparison, I disabled ray tracing for this render. Consequently, shadows are lost as they were raytraced, but so are the black spots. The skin shading appears identical in the illuminated, unshadowed areas. Can anyone suggest where I should look next? I can't find any glaringly obvious errors in my shader node setup. I'll post the material file specific to my main light direction if that's useful.

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