Skin is the biggest organ in the human body — the average adult male has 20 square feet of it.
Approximately 4.16% of your body weight is skin.
The average person's skin covering weighs about 6lbs.
Your skin is about 3/16th of an inch thick.
Men's skin is 25 percent thicker than women's.
There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.
Humans shed 40 pounds of skin in their lifetime, completely replacing their outer skin every month.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
In research by biologists at the University of Colorado, about 15 per cent of air samples taken from several New York City subway platforms consisted of human skin.
There are more lifeforms living on your skin than people on the Earth.
Lighter skin in humans evolved only recently, maybe only 8,500 years ago, probably in response to more clothing and limited diet. It is thought that the genes for light skin first appeared in Anatolia (the westernmost protrusion of Asia) and only became widespread in Europe by about 5,000 years ago.
Gary Turner from Lincolnshire, England, holds the world record for the stretchiest skin. He is able to stretch the skin of his belly to a length of 15.8cm (6.25in) due to an extreme form of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a rare disorder of the connective tissues.
Acne affects 79-95% of western adolescents, yet a study of non-westernized tribes in Papua New Guinea and Paraguay found no cases of acne.
The skin on the foot or palm of your hand wrinkles when it is exposed at length to water because it expands.
Stretch marks are actually scars. The skin stretches so quickly that the collagen and elastic tissue are damaged, leading to the characteristic line-like appearance of the skin.
Human skin is made up of keratin, which is the same material the makes up the scales of snakes and armadillos.
Chameleon skin is made up of tiny, mirror-like crystals that reflect differing levels of light, allowing it to change color.
Only one genus of vertebrate has skin that can produce blue pigment—Synchiropus, a genus of fish found mainly in the Indo-Pacific Ocean.
Approximately 4.16% of your body weight is skin.
The average person's skin covering weighs about 6lbs.
Your skin is about 3/16th of an inch thick.
Men's skin is 25 percent thicker than women's.
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| Close view of the skin on a human hand. Wikipedia Commons |
There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.
Humans shed 40 pounds of skin in their lifetime, completely replacing their outer skin every month.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
In research by biologists at the University of Colorado, about 15 per cent of air samples taken from several New York City subway platforms consisted of human skin.
There are more lifeforms living on your skin than people on the Earth.
Lighter skin in humans evolved only recently, maybe only 8,500 years ago, probably in response to more clothing and limited diet. It is thought that the genes for light skin first appeared in Anatolia (the westernmost protrusion of Asia) and only became widespread in Europe by about 5,000 years ago.
Gary Turner from Lincolnshire, England, holds the world record for the stretchiest skin. He is able to stretch the skin of his belly to a length of 15.8cm (6.25in) due to an extreme form of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a rare disorder of the connective tissues.
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| Gary "Stretch" Turner August 11, 2013. Flickr.com |
Acne affects 79-95% of western adolescents, yet a study of non-westernized tribes in Papua New Guinea and Paraguay found no cases of acne.
The skin on the foot or palm of your hand wrinkles when it is exposed at length to water because it expands.
Stretch marks are actually scars. The skin stretches so quickly that the collagen and elastic tissue are damaged, leading to the characteristic line-like appearance of the skin.
Human skin is made up of keratin, which is the same material the makes up the scales of snakes and armadillos.
Chameleon skin is made up of tiny, mirror-like crystals that reflect differing levels of light, allowing it to change color.
Only one genus of vertebrate has skin that can produce blue pigment—Synchiropus, a genus of fish found mainly in the Indo-Pacific Ocean.
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