For most of our evolutionary history, human activity has been linked to daylight. Technology has liberated us from these ...

O2 has collaborated with Creative Technologist Marc Teyssier to develop the “Skincase,” a prototype phone case designed to ...

Human beings have a conflicted relationship with the sun. People love sunshine, but then get hot. Sweat gets in your eyes.

Human skin, being less hairy than chimpanzee skin, "dries ... The next step was to find some hard data correlating skin color to light levels. Until the 1980s, ...

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, ...

The skin, hair and eye color of more than eight billion humans is determined by the light-absorbing pigment known as melanin. An article recently published in the journal Science features research ...

As for modern-day human skin colour: the prevailing hypothesis is that it’s the result of natural selection across a few genes. Two of these, SLC24A5 and SLC45A2, are the most well-studied. They ...

Blue eyes have been around for at least 7,000 years but we still don't know exactly why they evolved. Brad Pitt has them, Paul Newman had them — but when it comes to the human population as a ...

Their findings, published in Nature Genetics, broaden the understanding of human evolution and the genetics underpinning contemporary human skin color diversity.

Dark pigmentation was inferred for nearly all Paleolithic individuals (~45,000 to 13,000 years ago), with only one exception showing an intermediate skin color.

Light helps explains the evolution of our skin colour, why some of us have curly hair, and the size of our eyes. And light still shapes us today.