Martin–Schultz scale

{{short description|Standard color scale}}

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The Martin–Schultz scale is a standard color scale commonly used in physical anthropology to establish more or less precisely the eye color of an individual; it was created by the anthropologists Rudolf Martin and Bruno K Schultz in the first half of the 20th century. The scale consists of 20 colors{{Cite web|url=http://antropologia-fizyczna.pl/images/antropometria/somatoskopia/martin-schulz.jpg |title=Martin-Schulz Eye Color Chart |access-date=2017-01-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160802080400/http://antropologia-fizyczna.pl/images/antropometria/somatoskopia/martin-schulz.jpg |archive-date=2016-08-02 |url-status=dead }} (from light blue to dark brown-black) that correspond to the different eye colors observed in nature due to the amount of melanin in the iris (in this case, the lower the number, the lighter the eye color):Piquet-Thepot M.-M. - Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, XII° Série, tome 3 fascicule 3, pg. 207,208 - (1968){{cite journal|url=http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/bmsap_0037-8984_1968_num_3_3_1417|title=Contribution à l'anthropologie des Corses : Anthropologie de la tête (suite)|first=M.-M.|last=Piquet-Thepot|date=26 March 1968|journal=Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris|volume=3|issue=3|pages=183–218|doi=10.3406/bmsap.1968.1417}}