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is an older version of color scale commonly used in physical anthropology to establish more or less precisely the eye color of an individual. It was created by the anthropologist
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197:The races of Europe
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232:15 October
263:Eye color
215:Persee.fr
165:Human eye
155:Eye color
149:See also
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171:Notes
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