Race is a social construction of society. Society has its own agenda when it comes to race. Race is classified by your skin tone. Although some peoples skin may appear darker because he or she may have more melanin in the body than another person. Melanin has played a significant role in human evolution. In this paper, I will discuss the importance of melanin in its role in the human biological system and how it relates to the natural selection of suitable human life according to geography and environment.

Most people are not aware that human pigmentation is influenced by hemoglobin within blood vessels in the skin carotene and melanin. "Melanin, the basis of pigmentation, can be found in the forms of eumelanin and phaeomelanin." (Jablonski) The fact is "Eumelanin is the brown-black pigment