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What Controls Variation in Human Skin Color?

Published on Nov 20, 2015

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What Controls Variation in Human Skin Color?

Diversity of human appearance and form has intrigued biologists for centuries.

Nearly 100 years after the term genetics was coined by William Bateson in 1906

Genes that underlie this diversity are an unsolved mystery.

One of the most obvious phenotype that distinguish members of our species differences in skin pigmentation.

The effect of natural selection on similar pigmentation phenotypes proceeded independently similar pathways

Should we care about the genetics of human pigmentation if it is only skin-deep?

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