Unlabeled Renatto Luschan Skin color map

• Jablonski NG, Chaplin G. 2000. The evolution of skin coloration. J. Hum. Evol. 39:57–106

also reprinted in:

• 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.

Jablonski NG, Chaplin G. 2000. The evolution of skin coloration. J. Hum. Evol. 39:57–106

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 File:Felix von Luschan Skin Color chart.svg.

Reflectance spectrophotometry is a much more modern way of measurement of human skin color. See Jablonski's work.

The best known of these maps is that composed by 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). According to Jablonski (2004), some areas where data could not be obtained were filled in based on data from other areas.[1]. A map supplemented by Jablonski: [2]

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).