The colours of humanity: the evolution of pigmentation in the human lineage

UV-associated decline in systemic folate: implications for human nutrigenetics, health, and evolutionary processes

(2016) Mark Lucock et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY

The UVB-vitamin D3-pigment hypothesis is alive and well

(2016) William B. Grant   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Basis for the gain and subsequent dilution of epidermal pigmentation during human evolution: The barrier and metabolic conservation hypotheses revisited

(2016) Peter M. Elias et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Quantitative assessment of skin, hair, and iris variation in a diverse sample of individuals and associated genetic variation

(2015) Heather L. Norton et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

A lover or a fighter? Opposing sexual selection pressures on men’s vocal pitch and facial hair

(2015) Tamsin K. Saxton et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Rearrangement and depletion of folate in human skin by ultraviolet radiation

(2015) L.Z. Hasoun et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY

Folic acid supplementation improves microvascular function in older adults through nitric oxide-dependent mechanisms

(2015) Anna E. Stanhewicz et al.   CLINICAL SCIENCE

A Closer Look at Evolution: Variants (SNPs) of Genes Involved in Skin Pigmentation, Including EXOC2, TYR, TYRP1, and DCT, Are Associated With 25(OH)D Serum Concentration

(2015) Roman Saternus et al.   ENDOCRINOLOGY

Are badges of status adaptive in large complex primate groups?

(2015) Cyril C. Grueter et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

The Evolution of Tanning Needs Its Day in the Sun

(2015) Quillen   HUMAN BIOLOGY

Levantine cranium from Manot Cave (Israel) foreshadows the first European modern humans

(2015) Israel Hershkovitz et al.   NATURE

Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia

(2015) Morten E. Allentoft et al.   NATURE

Sun exposure patterns of urban, suburban, and rural children: a dosimetry and diary study of 150 children

(2015) Mette Bodekær et al.   PHOTOCHEMICAL & PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Iris pigmentation as a quantitative trait: variation in populations of European, East Asian and South Asian ancestry and association with candidate gene polymorphisms

(2015) Melissa Edwards et al.   Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research

Photobiological implications of melanin photoprotection after UVB-induced tanning of human skin but not UVA-induced tanning

(2015) Sergio G. Coelho et al.   Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research

Distribution of an allele associated with blond hair color across northern island melanesia

(2014) Heather L. Norton et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Epidermal gene expression and ethnic pigmentation variations among individuals of Asian, European and African ancestry

(2014) Lanlan Yin et al.   EXPERIMENTAL DERMATOLOGY

Population Diversity and Adaptive Evolution in Keratinization Genes: Impact of Environment in Shaping Skin Phenotypes

(2014) Pramod Gautam et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans

(2014) Iosif Lazaridis et al.   NATURE

A molecular basis for classic blond hair color in Europeans

(2014) Catherine A Guenther et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Direct evidence for positive selection of skin, hair, and eye pigmentation in Europeans during the last 5,000 y

(2014) Sandra Wilde et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Skin cancer was not a potent selective force in the evolution of protective pigmentation in early hominins

(2014) N. G. Jablonski et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Was skin cancer a selective force for black pigmentation in early hominin evolution?

(2014) M. Greaves   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Regional relation between skin blood flow and sweating to passive heating and local administration of acetylcholine in young, healthy humans

(2013) Caroline J. Smith et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

The Human Environment and the Vitamin D Compromise: Scotland as a Case Study in Human Biocultural Adaptation and Disease Susceptibility

(2013) George Chaplin et al.   HUMAN BIOLOGY

Epidermal pigmentation in the human lineage is an adaptation to ultraviolet radiation

(2013) Nina G. Jablonski et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Is vitamin D deficiency a major global public health problem?

(2013) Cristina Palacios et al.   JOURNAL OF STEROID BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Vitamin D for Health: A Global Perspective

(2013) Arash Hossein-nezhad et al.   MAYO CLINIC PROCEEDINGS

Global Patterns of Diversity and Selection in Human Tyrosinase Gene

(2013) Georgi Hudjashov et al.   PLoS One

Colorful DNA polymorphisms in humans

(2013) Fan Liu et al.   SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

The colours of extant mammals

(2013) Tim Caro   SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

The biology of hair diversity

(2013) Gillian E Westgate et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COSMETIC SCIENCE

Dermal Damage Promoted by Repeated Low-Level UV-A1 Exposure Despite Tanning Response in Human Skin

(2013) Frank Wang et al.   JAMA Dermatology

Tetrahydrobiopterin increases NO-dependent vasodilation in hypercholesterolemic human skin through eNOS-coupling mechanisms

(2012) Lacy M. Alexander et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Beards augment perceptions of men's age, social status, and aggressiveness, but not attractiveness

(2012) Barnaby J. Dixson et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Human skin pigmentation, migration and disease susceptibility

(2012) N. G. Jablonski et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genome-Wide Association Studies of Quantitatively Measured Skin, Hair, and Eye Pigmentation in Four European Populations

(2012) Sophie I. Candille et al.   PLoS One

The great human expansion

(2012) B. M. Henn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Melanesian Blond Hair Is Caused by an Amino Acid Change in TYRP1

(2012) E. E. Kenny et al.   SCIENCE

OPRM1 and EGFR contribute to skin pigmentation differences between Indigenous Americans and Europeans

(2011) Ellen E. Quillen et al.   HUMAN GENETICS

Local tetrahydrobiopterin administration augments reflex cutaneous vasodilation through nitric oxide-dependent mechanisms in aged human skin

(2011) Anna E. Stanhewicz et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY

Familiarity affects the assessment of female facial signals of fertility by free-ranging male rhesus macaques

(2011) J. P. Higham et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Barrier requirements as the evolutionary “driver” of epidermal pigmentation in humans

(2010) Peter M. Elias et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY

Photoperiod at conception predicts C677T-MTHFR genotype: A novel gene-environment interaction

(2010) Mark Lucock et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY

Classification of iris colour: review and refinement of a classification schema

(2010) David A Mackey et al.   CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL OPHTHALMOLOGY

The Evo-Devo Puzzle of Human Hair Patterning

(2010) Lewis I. Held   Evolutionary Biology

Vexed by Red-Headed Conundrums

(2010) Jonathan L. Rees   JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY

The deceptive nature of UVA tanning versus the modest protective effects of UVB tanning on human skin

(2010) Yoshinori Miyamura et al.   Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research

Human skin pigmentation as an adaptation to UV radiation

(2010) N. G. Jablonski et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Vitamin D and the evolution of human depigmentation

(2009) George Chaplin et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Genome-Wide Association Study of Tanning Phenotype in a Population of European Ancestry

(2009) Hongmei Nan et al.   JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY

Evidence that stress to the epidermal barrier influenced the development of pigmentation in humans

(2009) Peter M. Elias et al.   Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research

Genetics of human iris colour and patterns

(2009) Richard A. Sturm et al.   Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research

Body temperature, thermoregulatory behaviour and pelt characteristics of three colour morphs of springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis)

(2008) Robyn S. Hetem et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Social correlates of testosterone and ornamentation in male mandrills

(2008) Joanna M. Setchell et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Red hair is the null phenotype of MC1R

(2008) Kimberley A. Beaumont et al.   HUMAN MUTATION

Photodegradation of 5-methyltetrahydrofolate in the presence of Uroporphyrin

(2008) Tran Thi Thu Tam et al.   JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY

Contrasting coloration in terrestrial mammals

(2008) T. Caro   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

5-Methyltetrahydrofolate is photosensitive in the presence of riboflavin

(2008) Arnfinn Hykkerud Steindal et al.   PHOTOCHEMICAL & PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Melanocortin 1 Receptor and the UV Response of Human Melanocytes—A Shift in Paradigm

(2008) Zalfa A. Abdel-Malek et al.   PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY