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Biology's way of painting you without asking your opinion on color.
means The natural coloring of skin, hair, eyes, or other tissue, produced by pigments like melanin.
from From Latin 'pigmentum' meaning paint or coloring matter, itself from 'pingere,' to paint — the same root that gives English 'paint,' 'picture,' and 'depict.' So pigmentation is literally your body's own paint job, chemically applied by cells rather than brushes.
- main pigment
- melanin, made by cells called melanocytes
- same count
- all races have similar melanocyte numbers, not amount
- bonus function
- melanin also protects DNA from UV damage
- beyond skin
- determines eye, hair, even some disease resistance