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 ...

Human skin, hair, and eyes come in a huge variety of colors, but until now, scientists have only known a fraction of the genetic diversity driving this variation. Now, new research finds many dozens ...

In our racially charged, and often divided society, skin color is still one of the most definable variations in the human species. While many narrow-minded orators (and even a prominent scientist) ...