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Human skin color is primarily due to the presence of melanin in the skin. Skin color ranges from almost black to white with a pinkish tinge due to blood vessels underneath. Variation in natural skin color is mainly due to genetics, although the evolutionary causes are not completely certain. According to scientific studies, natural human skin color diversity is highest in Sub-Saharan African populations, with skin reflectance values ranging from 19 to 46 (med. 31) compared with European and East Asian populations which have skin reflectance values of 62 to 69 and 50 to 59 respectively.
The natural skin color can be darkened as a result of tanning due to exposure to sunlight. The leading explanation is that skin color adapts to sunlight intensities which produce vitamin D deficiency or ultraviolet light damage to folic acid. Other hypotheses include protection from ambient temperature, infections, skin cancer or frostbite, an alteration in food, and sexual selection.
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The pigment that is largely responsible for skin color is?
Melanin produces skin color.
What substance produces color in your skin and hair?
Melanin is the substance that produces color in both skin and hair. It is produced by specialized cells called melanocytes located in the skin's epidermis. The amount and type of melanin determines one's skin and hair color.
Why is skin white?
Less pigmentation in your skin (substance in your tissues that produces a characteristic color).
What two things produce skin color?
Melatonin produces melanin. Melanin is what creates skin pigment (and also eye color, hair color).
How can you change your skin from black to white?
Can not be done. Skin color is the result of several things. DNA determines eye, hair, and skin color as well as other things. Melanin pigment produces skin color and freckles. The less melanin the whiter the skin. You can not change it. Be proud of who you are.
What is the opposite of skin color?
The opposite of skin color is not having any skin color, which would be transparent or colorless.
What factors influence colors?
Skin color has to do with the amount of melanin that a person produces, which generally corresponds to the climate that their ancestors originated from. Generally, peoples from regions closer to the equator have darker skin and those farther from it have lighter skin. Ultraviolet B radiation increases the production of melanin by melanocytes, so that both genetics and environment influence skin color.
What is the skin color of poseidon?
his skin color is green
What is grayish skin color?
Skin color grayish.
What is Fergies real skin color?
Her skin color is olive.
What color was Michael Vicks skin?
his skin color was black or African American his skin color was black or African American
What is an example of skin color discrimination?
An example of skin color discrimination, better known as racism, would be firing an employee because of their skin color or not promoting them in a company because of their skin color.
