What are the genetics behind mixed race skin?

Darker skinned people do have more melanin, particularly Eumelanin. How light or dark someone is does depends on the genes they inherited from their parents, but I wouldn't think of it the same way as one would think of mixing paint colors. read more

Darker skinned people do have more melanin, particularly Eumelanin. How light or dark someone is does depends on the genes they inherited from their parents, but I wouldn’t think of it the same way as one would think of mixing paint colors. read more

The benefit that mixed-race folks have is greater genetic variety. From their mother they have a set of genes that came from one part of the world; from their father, they have a set of genes that came from another part. So their mother and their father are less closely related to each other than most people’s parents are. read more

It starts out somewhat ludicrously: “Her son Leo has black skin and her daughter Hope, has white skin.” This is false in a precise sense. Leo clearly has medium to light brown skin (there are photos in the piece). read more

The benefit that mixed-race folks have is greater genetic variety. From their mother they have a set of genes that came from one part of the world; from their father, they have a set of genes that came from another part. read more