TY - JOUR
T1 - The Evolution of Skin Pigmentation and Hair Texture in People of African Ancestry
AU - Jablonski, Nina G.
AU - Chaplin, George
PY - 2014/4
Y1 - 2014/4
N2 - Our species, Homo sapiens, evolved in Africa, and humanity's highest levels of genetic diversity are maintained there today. Underlying genetic diversity combined with the great range of solar regimes and climatic conditions found in Africa has contributed to a wide range of human integumentary phenotypes within the continent. Millions of Africans have moved, voluntarily and involuntarily, to other continents in the past 2000 years, and the range of integumentary phenotypes among admixed African diaspora populations is enormous. In this contribution, we do not catalog this variation, but provide basic evolutionary background as to how it developed in the first place.
AB - Our species, Homo sapiens, evolved in Africa, and humanity's highest levels of genetic diversity are maintained there today. Underlying genetic diversity combined with the great range of solar regimes and climatic conditions found in Africa has contributed to a wide range of human integumentary phenotypes within the continent. Millions of Africans have moved, voluntarily and involuntarily, to other continents in the past 2000 years, and the range of integumentary phenotypes among admixed African diaspora populations is enormous. In this contribution, we do not catalog this variation, but provide basic evolutionary background as to how it developed in the first place.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.det.2013.11.003
DO - 10.1016/j.det.2013.11.003
M3 - Review article
C2 - 24679998
AN - SCOPUS:84897066833
SN - 0733-8635
VL - 32
SP - 113
EP - 121
JO - Dermatologic Clinics
JF - Dermatologic Clinics
IS - 2
ER -