Why Do People Come in Different Colors?

by Isaac Asimov and Carrie Dierks

Book Overview

Explains, in simple terms, the reasons for skin color, how it is determined by heredity, and how various environmental factors affect it. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0836808088
• ISBN13: 9780836808087
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing
• Length: 24 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Age Range: 6 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 1 and higher

Customer Reviews

On skin pigmentation.

This is another small, thin volume in the "Ask Isaac Asimov" series for young children (six to eight years old or younger). Here we have a simple discussion for young children of melanin and skin pigmentation and why it may have arisen.