"The Lightest and Darkest skin colour. Human Diversity is amazing. While the two models pictured in the photo shown above do have dramatically different skin tones, the colors portrayed in this ...

For most of our evolutionary history, human activity has been ... ancestors to walk upright on two legs. Light helps explain the evolution of our skin colour, why some of us have curly hair ...

Human skin, being less hairy than chimpanzee skin ... The next step was to find some hard data correlating skin color to light levels. Until the 1980s, researchers could only estimate how ...

A South African woman has been sentenced to life in prison after allegedly trafficking her 6-year-old daughter, Joshlin Smith ...

Brad Pitt has them, Paul Newman had them — but when it comes to the human population as a whole ... hypothesis', which is the idea that light coloured skin, hair and eyes co-evolved as humans ...

Amruta Subhash recently opened up on how rejection by a dance teacher over 'skin tone' affected her self-confidence. She ...

University of Ferrara researchers in Italy have examined how European skin ... ago), lighter eye colors became more frequent, with 11 out of 35 samples showing the light eye phenotype.

New research from Sony suggests that those tests are blind to a crucial aspect of the diversity of human skin color. By expressing skin tone using only a sliding scale from lightest to darkest or ...

The skin, hair and eye color of more than eight billion humans is determined by the light-absorbing pigment ... and gives rise to the variation in human skin color. To understand what actually ...

Scientists in China have developed contact lenses that let wearers see light normally invisible to the human eye.

The genetic determination of human skin colour is one of biology's enduring mysteries. Alterations in some of these genes are associated with disorders such as albinism, which causes very light skin, ...