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Human skin color - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Human skin color can range from almost black (due to very high concentrations of the dark brown pigment melanin) to nearly colorless (appearing pinkish white due to the blood ...
http://wiki.healthhaven.com/Human_skin_color
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Human Biological Adaptability: Skin Color as an Adaptation
Skin Color Adaptation. Human skin color is quite variable around the world. It ranges from a very dark brown among some Africans, Australians, and Melanesians to a near ...
http://anthro.palomar.edu/adapt/adapt_4.htm
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Human skin color - definition of Human skin color in the Medical ...
skin pigment. Etymology: AS, scinn + L, pigmentum, paint. any skin coloring caused by melanin deposits. The coloring may be modified by substances in the blood, such as several ...
http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Human+skin+color
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What Controls Variation in Human Skin Color?
Diversity of human appearance and form has intrigued biologists for centuries, but nearly 100 years after the term “genetics” was coined by William Bateson in 1906, the genes ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC212702/
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PLoS Biology: What Controls Variation in Human Skin Color?
PLoS Biology is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal that features works of exceptional significance in all areas of biological science, from molecules to ecosystems, including ...
http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0000027
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Fish Gene Sheds Light On Human Skin Color Variation
With help from a common aquarium pet and a recently released online database of human genetic variation, a collaborative team of Penn State researchers has found what could be the ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/12/051216091727.htm
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Human skin color
Human skin color can range from almost black to nearly colorless (appearing pinkish white due to the blood in the skin) in different people. In general, people with ancestors from ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/h/human_skin_color.htm
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Understanding the color of human skin
Understanding the color of human skin Elli Angelopoulou †‡ † Computer Science Department, Stevens Institute of Technology ‡ GRASP Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania ...
http://www.cs.stevens.edu/%7Eelli/spie.pdf
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The evolution of human skin coloration
NinaG. Jablonski and George Chaplin Department of Anthropology, California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA 94118-4599, U.S.A. E-mails: njablonski ...
http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/chem/faculty/leontis/chem447/PDF_files/Jablonski_skin_color_2000.pdf
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Researchers Identify Human Skin Color Gene: Scientific American
Ten years ago researchers embarked on a study of zebrafish--a quick breeding aquarium pet. While searching for cancer causing genes, they ended up isolating the gene that makes ...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=researchers-identify-huma
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