Anthropologist Nina Jablonski studies wide-ranging aspects of the human epidermis. Farai Chideya talks with Jablonski about her new book Skin: A Natural History. Sponsor Message I'm Farai Chideya and ...

Examining a fossilized molar in Nairobi last October, Nina Jablonski was thinking just one thing: “This is no monkey.” It should have been. After all, Jablonski, an anthropologist at the California ...

In today’s Academic Minute, Dr. Nina Jablonski of Penn State University explains how evolution has created such broad spectrum of human skin color. Nina Jablonski is Distinguished Professor of ...

Ten years ago, while at the university of Western Australia, anthropologist Nina Jablonski was asked to give a lecture on human skin. As an expert in primate evolution, she decided to discuss the ...

People who remain pale and never tan can blame their distant ancestors for choosing to live in the northern reaches of the globe and those who easily achieve a deep tan can thank their ancestors for ...

Skin color is one of our most important biological traits. Its many shades evolved as humans moved far and wide into regions with different intensities of sunlight. Skin color is also a trait that has ...

Skin looms large in human experience. It is one of the most discussed aspects of our appearance, and is used by others to assess our health, wealth and culture. For example, skin wrinkles and ...