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Frost's hypothesis on blond hair?

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I read Peter Frost's hypothesis on blond hair in Northern Europe that developed within the last 10-11,000 yrs & found it wanting in DNA back up data. Why have so many jumped on the band wagon when he presents such sparse DNA data? Is this just another Afro-centrist fairy tale?

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  1. What does it matter? It's just hair. Strands of dead protein growing out of your head. Who cares?


  2. To me, it sounds excessively silly. Both men and women pass their blond genes down. And I can't see any reason why a blonde woman would be reproductively more successful than a non-blonde woman, if we're talking sexual selection. I've yet to meet a man who would turn down a pretty brunette. I mean, even if men were more attracted to blondes, that would be unlikely to result in greater reproductive success because the blondes could only have so many kids, and the brunettes wouldn't NOT reproduce as a consequence--they'd just have a different man. It's more likely that such sexual selection, if that's what it is, would occur because male blonds experienced greater reproductive success, since that could make a big difference in offspring numbers. But due to cultural factors, it's hard for many to envision that MEN  have experienced sexual selection. Since men make so much of women's sexuality, it's sexual selection in women that is focused on.

  3. I've never heard that before but I believe it. What does it matter? Blue eyes came about from a genetic mutation as well.

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