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 ...

Notably, the variant near TRPS1 associated with lighter skin color is at nearly 100% frequency in the San and in most non-Africans, whereas the variant associated with darker skin color is common in ...

The first Europeans looked dramatically different to many of the fair skinned populations that live there today. In fact, new research suggests that pale complexions are a relatively recent addition ...