It is an unfortunate fact that skin color dictates alot more than how a person looks. This is especially true for countries such as the United States, where skin color is used to define race and ...

For decades, scientists assumed that the first modern humans to arrive in Europe, around 45,000 years ago, quickly evolved pale skin to adapt to the region’s dim sunlight. The logic seemed ...

For most of Europe’s history, the people who lived there did not resemble the pale figures often shown in history books. New genetic research now shows that dark skin, dark hair, and dark eyes ...

1. South Sudan: South Sudanese people often have some of the darkest skin tones in Africa. This is attributed to the region’s high levels of melanin, which provides protection against intense UV ...

Most prehistoric Europeans had dark skin, hair and eyes well into the Iron Age, about 3,000 years ago, new research finds. Scientists found that the genes that cause lighter skin, hair and eyes ...

The country with the darkest skin in the world is South Sudan. The East African country was mentioned by all of our sources. Like most African countries, it is also incredibly diverse with 64 ethnic ...