Sentences with phrase «skin coloration»

This interesting research breaks new ground as it is the first to show strong evidence for the importance of skin coloration in attractiveness judgements.

During a pregnancy, your skin often experiences color changes as your hormones increase the amount of melanin (the pigment responsible for skin coloration) that you have in your body.

Previous studies have shown that rhesus macaque skin coloration is involved in mate selection - both males and females show interest in darker red faces displayed in the opposite sex.

This product contains high doses of vitamin A in the form of beta carotene, while safe, this dose may cause a temporary yellow - orange skin coloration.

Not that supporting players don't put in serious bids to steal the show, including newcomer Michael Bowman (cast because of his unusual skin coloration) and Anthony Anderson, Mongo Brownlee and Jerod Mixon, who play Charlie's brilliant, «street - talking» stepsons.

The collaborative international research also shows that skin coloration in male and female rhesus macaques is an inherited quality — the first example of heritability for a sexually - selected trait to be described in any mammal.

However, this is the first study that shows variation in skin coloration has a genetic basis and can help predict reproductive output.

«Skin coloration can arise as a result of two distinct processes,» explain the team leading the research: through tanning (melanisation) or the assimilation of fruit and vegetables (carotenoid ingestion).

Chameleons were long thought to have developed the ability to change their skin coloration in order to blend in with their environment.

Espinasa, L., Cahill, A., McCaffery, S., and Millar, C. (2013) Partial sequence of a gene involved in skin coloration (MC1R) from the Pennsylvanian Grotto Sculpin.

Photographs revealed a decrease in superficial wrinkles around the eyes and a reduction in brown mottling and skin coloration.