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Jun 13, 2020 · Why Did Skin-Tone Band-Aids Take So Long To Come To Market? Was Nipsey Russel’s public question to Johnson & Johnson in 1968 heeded? To quote LA marketing consultant Harry Webber, the person responsible for the advertising of Johnson & Johnson’s Band-Aid from 1963 to 1968, the product’s “flesh color” shade was “ a non-issue ...
Jan 28, 2019 · While the intensity of UV rays is dictated by geography, the amount actually penetrating your skin depends on your degree of pigmentation, or skin color. That’s the basic explanation, proposed in 2000 and fleshed out since by anthropologist Nina Jablonski and geographer George Chaplin.
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Oct 12, 2017 · But different groups of people in Africa have almost every skin color on the planet, from deepest black in the Dinka of South Sudan to beige in the San of South Africa. Now, researchers have discovered a handful of new gene variants responsible for this palette of tones.
Jun 6, 2013 · June 6, 2013. Since its unpretentious invention in 1920 by Johnson & Johnson in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the Band-Aid was long manufactured in a single color: a soft pink. In a 1955 TV...
In the early 1990s, the evolution of skin color was regarded by many of her peers as an intractable problem. Theory held that darker skin had evolved in order to afford early humans—who had recently lost the cover of fur—a protection against skin cancer under the tropical sun.
Human skin color ranges from the darkest brown to the lightest hues. Differences in skin color among individuals is caused by variation in pigmentation, which is the result of genetics (inherited from one's biological parents), exposure to the sun, disorders, or some combination thereof.
Oct 12, 2017 · The Ancient Origins of Both Light and Dark Skin. A study of diverse people from Africa shows that the genetic story of our skin is more complicated than previously thought. By Ed Yong. Ther...
