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This is a derivative work from the free-use map I found on Wikipedia of Biasutti's skin color chart of the world Image:Map of skin hue equi.png. I recolored it in accordance with Image:Felix von Luschan Skin Color Chart.JPG. The original map was off since it made-up red and green colors to distinguish human skin color. This made it seem like some people had green skin color. My map uses the actual skin colors Luschan measured. It is unlabeled because I plan to use it in a template with floating labels.--DarkTea 21:18, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Some background info, from a highly verified source:

As natural historians and human geographers—mostly from Europe—ventured into Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas and began to study the indigenous human populations in detail, maps depicting the worldwide distribution of human skin color were slowly assembled. The best known of these maps is that composed by the Italian geographer Renato Biasutti, which was based on the von Luschan skin color 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 (Robins 1991). A more accurate and exhaustive compilation of the skin colors of indigenous peoples based only on published skin reflectance measurements is now available (Jablonski & Chaplin 2000). (Source: Nina G. Jablonski, "THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN SKIN AND SKIN COLOR," Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 2004. 33:600.)

The improved map is in Jablonski NG, Chaplin G. 2000. The evolution of skin coloration. J. Hum. Evol. 39:57–106.--Carwil 22:18, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

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