Sentences with phrase «study of skin color»

«This is really a landmark study of skin color diversity,» says geneticist Greg Barsh of the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, Alabama.

Not exact matches

While discounting subjective criteria such as eye and skin color, the site scores users out of 10 according to a specific algorithm that «takes into account many factors from neoclassical beauty, modern research papers, and our own scientific studies,» the company said.

People who study face perception have been arguing that when we meet new people, all we are learning about their faces are so - called static features that don't change, like the shape and size of their face and skin color.

Using a genome - wide association study (GWAS) that includes 1600 individuals living in Tanzania, Botswana, or Ethiopia, the authors identified regions of the genome that contribute to skin color variation and carried out a series of analyses to pinpoint the responsible genes.

Anthropologist Nina Jablonski, profiled by Ann Gibbons (p. 934), studies the evolution of skin color and has found that a surprising number of people face health consequences from having a skin tone poorly adapted to their current environment.

In a retrospective study, researchers found that a majority of areas of the skin treated with surgery still had «very good to excellent» color match pigmentation five years later.

Thanks to an exquisitely well - preserved fossil skin, a new study has reproduced a fossil vertebrate's full range of colors.

In the current study, two of the amino acid differences that Cheng has shown in prior studies to contribute to light skin color in humans prevented the zebrafish color from darkening.

Another study was done on 35 students for a period of 6 weeks and it was discovered that eating 2 extra portions of fruits and vegetables a day created detectable skin color changes that made them look significantly more attractive.

The plot below the image, based on data from researchers at Columbia University and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, shows the surface or «skin» temperature of different - colored rooftops in early August 2010.

In two studies of women, aged 18 - 25 and 30 - 40, respectively, researchers assessed the characteristics women value when selecting males as long - term relationship partners versus selecting males as sperm donors.1 The women were randomly assigned to rate a series of characteristics desired in their «ideal man» as a sperm donor or their «ideal man» as a relationship partner, including physical traits (e.g., height, body shape, hair and skin color, overall attractiveness) and demographics (e.g., age, education, income, ethnicity, religious and political affiliations).