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2. Human skin color - Wikipedia

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   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 October 2024. "Skin pigmentation" redirects here. For animal skin pigmentation, see Biological pigment. Extended Coloured family from South Africa showing some spectrum of human skin coloration Human skin color ranges from the darkest brown to the lightest hues. Differences in skin color among ...

3. Sex differences in human physiology - Wikipedia

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   Sex differences in human physiology are distinctions of physiological characteristics associated with either male or female humans. These differences are caused by the effects of the different sex chromosome complement in males and females, and differential exposure to gonadal sex hormones during development. Sexual dimorphism is a term for the ...

4. Light skin - Wikipedia

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   Light skin is a human skin color that has a low level of eumelanin pigmentation as an adaptation to environments of low UV radiation. [1][2] Due to migrations of people in recent centuries, light-skinned populations today are found all over the world. [2][3] Light skin is most commonly found amongst the native populations of Europe, East Asia ...

5. Human skin - Wikipedia

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   The human skin is the outer covering of the body and is the largest organ of the integumentary system. The skin has up to seven layers of ectodermal tissue guarding muscles, bones, ligaments and internal organs. Human skin is similar to most of the other mammals ' skin, and it is very similar to pig skin. Though nearly all human skin is covered ...

6. Monk Skin Tone Scale - Wikipedia

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   The Monk Skin Tone Scale is an open-source, 10-shade scale describing human skin color, developed by Ellis Monk in partnership with Google and released in 2023. [1] It is meant to replace the Fitzpatrick scale in fields such as computer vision research, after an IEEE study found the Fitzpatrick scale to be "poorly predictive of skin tone" and ...

7. Pre-modern conceptions of whiteness - Wikipedia

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   Sex differences in skin colour were also depicted in Egyptian art, with women being depicted as noticeably lighter skinned than men. [26] Men would be painted dark reddish-brown, while women could be painted "white, tan, cream, or yellow". [27] Classical archaeologists typically ascribe this divergence to the differing lifestyles of men and ...