Image: Unlabeled Renatto Luschan Skin color map

Description: "Distribution of the varying intensity of skin colour" (Distribuzione della Varia Intensità del Colore della Pelle), data for native populations collected by R. Biasutti prior to 1940. Jablonski NG, Chaplin G. 2000. The evolution of skin coloration. J. Hum. Evol. 39:57–106 The best known of these maps is that composed by the Italian geographer Renato Biasutti, which was based on von Luschan's chromatic scale. This map has gained broad circulation in several widely distributed publications (Barsh 2003, Lewontin 1995, Roberts 1977, Walter 1971), despite the fact that, for areas with no data, Biasutti simply filled in the map by extrapolation from findings obtained in other areas [1]. History on Wikimedia: Based on File:Map of skin color distribution.gif (uploaded as fair use image 2 November 2004, deleted 6 November 2005), a scan of a reproduction by by Dennis O'Neil of the map "Distribuzione della Varia Intensità del Colore della Pelle" in Renato Biasutti, Le Razze e i Popoli della Terra: Volume Primo--Razze, Popoli e Culture (1959). Recolored it in accordance with Felix von Luschan Skin Color Chart.JPG. Reflectance spectrophotometry is a much more modern way of measurement of human skin color. See Jablonski's work. Original sources for the original maps were: Barsh GS (2003) What Controls Variation in Human Skin Color? PLoS Biol 1(1): e27. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0000027. Modern Human Variation: Overview (1998-2009 by Dennis O'Neil). The Ogre (talk) 00:05, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
Title: Unlabeled Renatto Luschan Skin color map
Credit: This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: Turned into vector. The original can be viewed here: Unlabeled Renatto Luschan Skin color map.png. Modifications made by Crisco 1492.   Barsh GS (2003) What Controls Variation in Human Skin Color? PLoS Biol 1(1): e27. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0000027 Jurmain, R., L. Kilgore, W. Trevathan, (2009). Essentials Of Physical Anthropology. Belmont (CA): Wadsworth Publishing. ISBN 0495509396. This work notes: this maps quality is very low but is all that is currently available.
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