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Human skin color. Human skin color ranges from the darkest brown to the lightest hues. Differences in skin color among individuals is caused by variation in pigmentation, which is the result of genetics (inherited from one's biological parents ), exposure to the sun, disorders, or some combination thereof.
Light skin. 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 ...
High yellow, occasionally simply yellow ( dialect: yaller, yella ), is a term used to describe a light-skinned person of white and black ancestry. It is also used as a slang for those thought to have "yellow undertones". [ 1] The term was in common use in the United States at the end of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century ...
The goddess has been associated with sexuality, love, and fertility. [ 5][ 6][ 7] Xi Shi ( 西施 ), born 506 BC, was one of the Four Great Beauties of ancient China. [ 8] Physical attractiveness is the degree to which a person's physical features are considered aesthetically pleasing or beautiful. The term often implies sexual attractiveness ...
The legend of the green children of Woolpit concerns two children of unusual skin colour who reportedly appeared in the village of Woolpit in Suffolk, England, sometime in the 12th century, perhaps during the reign of King Stephen ( r. 1135–1154 ). The children, found to be brother and sister, were of generally normal appearance except for ...
By 1960 that mascot was a light-skinned boy in a jeweled turban with a smiling tiger friend, with no mention of the Congo. That didn't quell complaints of a racist name, yet by the 1970s there ...
Waardenburg syndrome is a group of rare genetic conditions characterised by at least some degree of congenital hearing loss and pigmentation deficiencies, which can include bright blue eyes (or one blue eye and one brown eye ), a white forelock or patches of light skin. These basic features constitute type 2 of the condition; in type 1, there ...
Mixed twins are fraternal or non-identical twins born to multiracial families which differ in skin color and other traits considered to be racial features. From a biological point of view, the differences in these fraternal or dizygotic twins from two biracial parents are not surprising. In humans, a relatively small number of genes are thought ...