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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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Melanin is the pigment responsible for skin color. The more melanin, the darker the skin. Everyone has some melanin (except for albinos).

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but why don't albinos have skin pigment

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Skin color changes can be their own condition, or they may be caused by other medical conditions or disorders.

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Just learned this in Anatomy!! The correct answer is carotene, melanin, and hemoglobin

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The pigment that is largely responsible for skin color is?

Melanin produces skin 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 meant by race as in your skin colour?

Scientifically their is no such thing as race based upon skin color. This ideal is a social construct. Skin color is determined by the amount of melanin ones body produces. Melanin only comes in shades of brown. Technically, the only real white people are Albinos, whose skin does not produce or produces very little melanin. All of the rest of us are a shade of brown, from lightest to darkest.


What process produces more skin cells?

Cell division (mitosis) produces more skin cells.Cell division (mitosis) produces more skin cells.


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.


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