Victor McKusick, “Mendelian Inheritance in Man“, 1966 was also the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: Nina Jablonski, “The Evolution of Human Skin and Skin Color”, Annual Reviews of Anthropology, volume 33, year 2004, pages 585-623. This paper assumes the migration out of Africa in 120,000 BC of Homo sapiens; and, geography resulted in various Skin Colors.
SUMMARY.
Eidonomy is the term for external morphology; and, anatomy is the term for biological internal structure. Eidonomy is the study of the integumentary system. The integument is physiological term for the organ system referred to as “the Skin”. Human Skin is the subject of Nina Jablonski’s publication.
More specifically, Nina Jablonski discusses Skin Color which is a function of the “melanocyte” cell. Melanocytes are one of the two-hundred-eleven (211) cell types of the Human Body.
COMMENTS.
The first sentence given Nina Jablonski is and I quote: “Human skin is the most visible aspect of the human phenotype”.
The terms “phenotype” is used here, as
Skin Color involves one-hundred (100) genes; and, “phenotype” is the term applied to multiple-gene trait of Skin Color.
