Skin color is one of the most diverse human traits, but the understanding of the complex genetic mechanisms behind this variation remains incomplete. This study investigated the genetic basis of ...
This paper presents the International Skin Spectra Archive (ISSA), a multicultural human skin phenotype dataset, containing 15,256 records of both spectral and colorimetric data derived from 2,113 ...
The textbook assumption is that when the first modern humans arrived in Europe, around 45,000 years ago, they quickly evolved pale skin to adapt to the region’s dimmer sunlight relative to Africa. The ...