News tagged with skin colour

Pigeons never forget a face

New research has shown that feral, untrained pigeons can recognise individual people and are not fooled by a change of clothes.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 03, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Researchers found breast cancer survival gene

(PhysOrg.com) -- QIMR researchers, as part of an international collaboration, have found that a gene that is most commonly associated with skin pigmentation, hair and eye colour may influence a patient’s chances of surviving ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 13, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ancestry attracts, but love is blind

People preferentially marry those with similar ancestry, but their decisions are not necessarily based on hair, eye or skin colour. Research, published in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Biology, shows that M ...

Biology / Other

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1