Biology/Human Being Hair Color due to Aging.
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Dear Walter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_hair_color
We observe that with age, Some Human Beings Hair color turns white.
Why Hair color turns white due to aging and not any other color i.e red, blue, yellow, green, pink .... ?
Thanks & Regards,
Prashant S Akerkar
Pigmentation in mammals is due to melanin. Different concentrations of melanin cause darker and lighter pigmentation. There are no red,blue an green pigments in mammals. Aging brings about the loss of melanin producing cells in the hair follicles causing white hair. It is heredity
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