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The Colour Problem by Richard Snell, Lecturer in Anatomy University of Durham

Most of the natural colours in skin and hair are due to one pigment - melanin. Differences in colour are caused, not by differences in skin structure, but by the different rates at which melanin is produced. Why are there these differences, and how are they controlled?

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