Ten years ago, while at the university of Western Australia, anthropologist Nina Jablonski was asked to give a lecture on human skin. As an expert in primate evolution, she decided to discuss the ...

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have discovered key insights into the molecular basis of skin color variations among African populations. Their findings, published in Nature Genetics, ...

(Reuters) - A new fossil of the Cretaceous Period dinosaur Psittacosaurus, a dog-sized herbivore with a parrot-like beak, that was donated to a Chinese university came with a surprise - one revealed ...

Nina Jablonski was at the helm of researching skin color evolution in the 1990s. Since then, she's worked with other scholars such as Henry Louis Gates Jr. to give young students a chance to ...

New research shows fossil skin can reveal color patterns in young Diplodocus, changing old ideas about sauropod appearance.

Ancient DNA from 348 individuals who lived between 1,700 and 45,000 years ago is reshaping what we know about the evolution of skin color in Europe. A new study suggests that up until around 3,000 ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

(Special to The Root) — Skin color is one of our most important biological traits. Its many shades evolved as humans moved far and wide into regions with different intensities of sunlight. Skin color ...