Human skin color ranges from the darkest brown to the lightest hues. Differences in skin color among individuals is caused by variation in pigmentation...
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Olive skin is a human skin tone. It is often associated with pigmentation in the Type III, Type IV, and Type V ranges of the Fitzpatrick scale. It generally...
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Light skin is a human skin color that has a low level of eumelanin pigmentation as an adaptation to environments of low UV radiation. Due to migrations...
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Fitzpatrick scale (redirect from Skin color scale)
scale (also Fitzpatrick skin typing test; or Fitzpatrick phototyping scale) is a numerical classification schema for human skin color. It was developed in...
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Human hair color is the pigmentation of human hair follicles and shafts due to two types of melanin: eumelanin and pheomelanin. Generally, the more melanin...
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Dark skin is a type of human skin color that is rich in melanin pigments. People with dark skin are often referred to as black people, although this usage...
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Identifying human races in terms of skin colour, at least as one among several physiological characteristics, has been common since antiquity. Such divisions...
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The Monk Skin Tone Scale is an open-source, 10-shade scale describing human skin color, developed by Ellis Monk in partnership with Google and released...
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The human skin is the outer covering of the body and is the largest organ of the integumentary system. The skin has up to seven layers of ectodermal tissue...
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Four-color printing Cyan, magenta, yellow Horses Equine coat color (wikilinks to all other coat color articles) Color breed Grayscale Hue Human skin color...
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(body shape, skin color, etc.) and immunology. Variability is partly heritable and partly acquired (nature vs. nurture debate). As the human species exhibits...
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Von Luschan's chromatic scale (category Human skin color)
Von Luschan's chromatic scale (VLS) is a method of classifying skin color. It is also called the von Luschan scale or von Luschan's scale. It is named...
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anthropology, reflectometry devices are often used to gauge human skin color through the measurement of skin reflectance. These devices are typically pointed at...
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perception of eye color. Hair color Human skin color Iridology Xanthophore Wielgus AR, Sarna T (2005). "Melanin in human irides of different color and age of...
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Nina Jablonski (section Skin color)
research into the evolution of skin color in humans. She is engaged in public education about human evolution, human diversity, and racism. In 2021,...
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is a congenital condition characterized in humans by the partial or complete absence of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes. Albinism is associated with...
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probably the primary forces of nature that have shaped human races with regard not only to skin color and hair form but also the underlying bony structures...
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Freckle (category Human skin color)
skin with a high melanin content in the cells. The high melanin content is protective in areas of high UV light exposure. The need was less as humans...
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any given population. The human sexual dimorphism in color seems to be greater in populations that are medium in skin color than in very light or very...
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Beidane (category Human skin color)
have lost virtually every aspect of their African origins except their skin color." Their Moorish culture and their language are the result of generations...
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bears throughout the world. Though not necessarily referring to human skin color or hair color, the flag was designed with inclusion in mind. The bear culture...
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Look up colourĀ or color in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Color or colour is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories...
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Melanocortin 1 receptor (category Human skin color)
MC1R is one of the key proteins involved in regulating mammalian skin color and hair color. It is located on the plasma membrane of specialized cells known...
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Brown (redirect from List of terms associated with the color brown)
brown is seen widely in nature, wood, soil, human hair color, eye color and skin pigmentation. Brown is the color of dark wood or rich soil. According to...
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Melanin (category Human skin color)
UV-radiation protecting skin decreased where radiation from the sun was less intense. This resulted in the current range of human skin color. Of the two common...
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White slave propaganda (category Human skin color)
that because the slaves were depicted as being white, through both their skin color and style of dress, abolitionists could argue that the Civil War was independent...
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Lists of colors (redirect from Color list)
colors by shade List of color palettes List of Crayola crayon colors List of RAL colours List of X11 color names Index of color-related articles List of...
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Beauty mark (category Human skin color)
recognizable symbol of beauty designed to highlight the pale, unblemished skin of the wearer. In Europe, mouches (French, 'flies'), became fashionable in...
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Liver spot (category Human skin color)
freckle") are blemishes on the skin associated with aging and exposure to ultraviolet radiation from the sun. They range in color from light brown to red or...
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Mercury-vapor lamp (section Color considerations)
spectral lines. This is not flattering to human skin color, so such lamps are typically not used in retail stores. "Color corrected" mercury bulbs overcome this...
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