Preserving the Blue Eyes and blonde Hair in Scandinavia by Sherif Monem
The blue eyes and blond hair may disappear in the Scandinavian countries through marriage with no blue eyes. No law can ban or prevent that but it would be nice that the Scandinavian will be known for that. The blue eyes may slowly disappear Peter Frost has written a cool paper on the evolution of blond hair and the origin of the remarkable diversity of eye and hair color in Northern and Eastern Europeans. His paper will be published in the upcoming March edition of the journal Evolution and Human Behavior. Frost is spot-on in nailing intense sexual selection as the primary reason for the high prevalence of blondness, which is of recent origin (less than 20,000 years old), and the unusual diversity of hair and eye color among Northern and Eastern Europeans. Whereas Frost’s proposed reason for the intense sexual selection is open to debate, the conclusion that intense sexual selection is implicated is almost certain. I am including his paper in this post,...