Pigmen warna kulit manusia memiliki keragaman dari coklat tergelap sampai putih terterang. Pigmentasi kulit seseorang adalah hasil dari genetik, produk dari kedua orangtua biologis seseorang, riasan genetik dan pancaran sinar matahari. Dalam evolusi, pigmentasi kulit pada manusia berubah akibat proses seleksi alam yang utamanya mengatur jumlah radiasi ultraviolet yang mempenetrasi kulit, mengkontrol efek biokimianya.
Daftar pustaka
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Pranala luar
Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai Human skin color.
- Computer Vision: Skin Color Based Face Tracking Examples of a face tracking in videos using a non parametric skin color model.
- N Wade (August 19, 2003), "Why Humans and Their Fur Parted Ways" New York Times (Science Times). Summary of clues to the saga in which humans evolved to lose their hair and had to adjust, including turning from light skin to dark skin, together with an estimation of the time when humans invented clothing.
- Key gene 'controls skin tone' SLC24A5 gene controls up to 38% of the tonal range in people with mixed European and West African ancestry
- PBS The Biology of Skin Color: Black and White
- Video The Biology of Skin Color