WHAT COLOR IS A ZEBRA?
BLACK & WHITE
WE'RE TRUE TO WHO WE ARE AND WE'RE HERE TO SHOW IT
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Why we chose
the Zebra to represent our vision
Human skin color ranges from the darkest brown to the lightest beige hues. Differences in skin color among individuals is often caused by variation in pigmentation within proximity to the equator, yet the amount of pigment we all have in our skin is the same. Just like a Zebra that is both black and white, so are we all 50 shades of light beige and dark brown within our skin tone color type.
A chromophore is a molecule which absorbs light at a particular wavelength and emits color as a result. Chromophores are commonly referred to as colored molecules for this reason. The word chromophore is derived from Ancient Greek (chroma) 'color', and (phoros) 'carrier of'. Many molecules in nature are chromophores, including chlorophyll, the molecule responsible for the green colors of leaves. The color that is seen by our eyes is that of the light not absorbed by the reflecting object within a certain wavelength spectrum of visible light.
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Our skin color is genetically produced within the chromophore by the melanin in the skin cells called melanocytes and it is the main determinant of skin color in humans. Melanogenesis is the production of melanin and defined as the process leading to the development of very dark melanin pigment. This is when skin hyperpigmentates (darker) or hypopigmentates (lighter).
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There is a direct correlation between the geographic distribution of ultraviolet radiation (UVR) and the distribution of indigenous skin pigmentation around the world. Areas that receive higher amounts of UVR, generally located closer to the equator, tend to have darker-skinned populations. ​​​​
A chromophore is a molecule absorbs light at a particular wavelength and emits color as a result
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Areas that are far from the tropics and closer to the poles have lower intensity of UVR, which is reflected in lighter-skinned populations. Individuals and groups living by the equator tend to have brown eyes and darker-skin. Over 50,000 years, over the time modern Homo sapiens evolved, all humans were dark-skinned. Some researchers suggest that human populations over the past 50,000 years have changed from dark-skinned to light-skinned and vice versa as they migrated to different UV zones, and that such major changes in pigmentation may have happened in as little as100 generations through selective sweeps of population and destination.
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Natural skin color can also darken as a result of tanning due to exposure to sunlight. The leading theory is that skin color adapts to intense sunlight irradiation to provide partial protection against the ultraviolet fraction that produces damage and thus mutations in the DNA of the skin cells.
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Zebra theory purports that like a zebra we all have dark and light about us,
both figuratively and physically speaking. The black and white of a zebra symbolically represents all of us as people in all the shades we exist from light beige to dark, dark brown.
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