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This book investigates the social history of skin color from prehistory to the present, showing how our body's most visible trait influences our social interactions in profound and complex ways. The author begins with the biology and evolution of skin pigmentation, explaining how skin color changed as humans moved around the globe. She explores the relationship between melanin pigment and sunlight, and examines the consequences of rapid migrations, vacations, and other lifestyle choices that can create mismatches between our skin color and our environment. Richly illustrated, this book explains why skin color has come to be a biological trait with great social meaning-- a product of evolution perceived by culture. It considers how we form impressions of others, how we create and use stereotypes, how negative stereotypes about dark skin developed and have played out through history. Offering examples of how attitudes about skin color differ in the U.S., Brazil, India, and South Africa, the author suggests that a knowledge of the evolution and social importance of skin color can help eliminate color-based discrimination and racism.

Human skin color. --- Human skin color --- Physiological aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Color of human beings --- Color of man --- Human beings --- Pigmentation of human skin --- Skin --- Skin color, Human --- Skin pigmentation, Human --- Color --- Physiological aspects --- Social aspects

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We expose it, cover it, paint it, tattoo it, scar it, and pierce it. Our intimate connection with the world, skin protects us while advertising our health, our identity, and our individuality. This dazzling synthetic overview is a complete guidebook to the pliable covering that makes us who we are. Skin: A Natural History celebrates the evolution of three unique attributes of human skin: its naked sweatiness, its distinctive sepia rainbow of colors, and its remarkable range of decorations. Jablonski places the rich cultural canvas of skin within its broader biological context for the first time, and the result is a tremendously engaging look at us.

Skin. --- 0 nonfiction. --- anthropology. --- art. --- beauty. --- biological context. --- biology. --- body and society. --- body art. --- cultural anthropology. --- cultural criticism. --- cultural identity. --- cultural studies. --- engaging. --- evolution. --- health. --- human body. --- human skin. --- humanity. --- identity. --- individuality. --- life sciences. --- mammals. --- natural history. --- natural science. --- natural. --- page turner. --- physical. --- public health. --- race issues. --- science ethics. --- science. --- social science. --- sociology. --- tattoos. --- various prejudices. --- Peau

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Linguistics --- Language and languages --- Historical linguistics --- Langage et langues --- Linguistique historique --- Origin --- Congresses --- Origines --- Congrès --- Congrès --- Congresses.

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Shaping Primate Evolution is an edited collection of papers about how biological form is described in primate biology, and the consequences of form for function and behavior. The contributors are highly regarded internationally recognized scholars in the field of quantitative primate evolutionary morphology. Each chapter elaborates upon the analysis of the form-function-behavior triad in a unique and compelling way. This book is distinctive not only in the diversity of the topics discussed, but also in the range of levels of biological organization that are addressed from cellular morphometrics to the evolution of primate ecology. The book is dedicated to Charles E. Oxnard, whose influential pioneering work on innovative metric and analytic techniques has gone hand-in-hand with meticulous comparative functional analyses of primate anatomy. Through the marriage of theory with analytical applications, this volume will be an important reference work for all those interested in primate functional morphology.

Primates --- Quadrumana --- Mammals --- Evolution. --- Morphology.