This variation is responsible for many biological adaptations, including variations
in human skin color in different regions of the globe.
South Asian genetic landscape, bearing in mind its geographic, linguistic, socio - cultural and skin color diversity, offers an excellent model system to decipher the genetic underpinnings
of human skin color variation and for a better understanding of it's evolutionary history.
Comprised of a grid of hundreds of panels
depicting human skin color, the work is both an abstract painting in monochromes and a group portrait.
Throughout the world,
human skin color has evolved to be dark enough to prevent sunlight from destroying the nutrient folate but light enough to foster the production of vitamin D
Cheng's lab works with zebrafish to study genetic differences that contribute to
human skin color.