Nina Jablonski was at the helm of researching skin color evolution in the 1990s. Since then, she's worked with other scholars such as Henry Louis Gates Jr. to give young students a chance to ...

(Special to The Root) — Skin color is one of our most important biological traits. Its many shades evolved as humans moved far and wide into regions with different intensities of sunlight. Skin color ...

For most of our evolutionary history, human activity has been linked to daylight. Technology has liberated us from these ancient sleep-wake cycles, but there is evidence sunlight has left and ...

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have discovered key insights into the molecular basis of skin color variations among African populations. Their findings, published in Nature Genetics, ...

Vitamin D and skin colour Triggering of vitamin D production in the skin by ultraviolet (UV) rays in sunlight, marked limitation at high latitudes, and a key rôle for human skin colour are ...

Vitamin D and skin colour Triggering of vitamin D production in the skin by ultraviolet (UV) rays in sunlight, marked limitation at high latitudes, and a key rôle for human skin colour are ...