A scientific survey of what research actually establishes about melanin — its chemistry, its distribution in the body, and its functions — organized in three parts. Moore separates documented physiology from popular claims and includes a critical review of the melanin theories of four widely read African-centered scholars.
Author: T. Owens Moore (Timothy Owens Moore) · Original publisher: Beckham House Publishers, Silver Spring, MD, 1995 (full title: *The Science of Melanin: Dispelling the Myths*). A second edition appeared from Zamani Press in 2004. One bibliography lists the 1995 publisher as "Venture"; the author's own site, which states the book "was originally published by Beckham House Publishers," is treated as governing
