Despite the emphasis that humans have placed on skin color throughout history, little is known about its genetic basis. As The New York Times reports, most of what scientists knew of skin-color ...

Indeed, there is significant disagreement regarding the exact nature of the evolutionary forces that affected human skin color ... skin pigmentation. While genetic evidence indicates that there ...

The new study showed that the frequency of people with dark skin was still high in parts of Europe until the Copper Age (also ...

What color were their eyes? Did they have dark or light skin? Were early Europeans blond, brown-haired, or redheaded? Thanks to advancements in genetics, researchers can now analyze ancient DNA to ...