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Don't you remember Pundant squares from back in school?

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i guess not
Maybe they didn't teach that stuff WAAAY back in the 70's and 80's

or maybe I've smoked too much weed and forgotten it

Windmiller said:

i have noticed that, i have no idea why. from what i remember of pundit squares, some would still show the recessed traits. I dont know of many if any caucasians with black hair, only dark brown.

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Atheist said:

my guess is that lighter hair types came from lack of sun after we went north out of Africa

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Lighter hair colors occur naturally in Europeans, and less frequently in other ethnicities.[16] In certain European populations, the occurrence of blonde hair is very frequent. The hair color gene MC1R has at least seven variants in Europe and the continent has an unusually wide range of hair and eye shades. Based on recent genetic information carried out at three Japanese universities, the date of the genetic mutation that resulted in blonde hair in Europe has been isolated to about 11,000 years ago during the last ice age. Before then, Europeans mostly had darker hair and eyes, which is predominant in the rest of the world.[16]
There is no consensus, but many theories, as to why certain populations in Europe had a high incidences of blond hair. If there had been no specific selective pressure on hair color, scientists estimate it would have taken 850,000 years for the trait to randomly appear, but modern humans, emigrating from Africa, only reached Europe 35,000-40,000 years ago.[16]

One theory is that that early men simply found blonde hair more attractive.[17] Canadian anthropologist Peter Frost, under the aegis of University of St Andrews, published a study in March 2006 in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior that says blond hair evolved very quickly at the end of the last ice age by means of sexual selection.[18] According to the study, the appearance of blonde hair and blue eyes in some northern European women made them stand out from their rivals at a time of fierce competition for males made scarce due to long, arduous hunting trips; this hypothesis argues that women with blonde hair posed an alternative that helped them mate and thus increased the number of blonds.

Another reason: men may have preferred blonde women is that light hair color is a marker of youth - since many Caucasian[clarification needed] children have blonde hair but it darkens as they mature, blonde girls or women would appear younger and therefore, more fertile.

A theory propounded in The History and Geography of Human Genes (1994), says blonde hair became predominant in Europe in about 3000 BC, in the area now known as Lithuania, among the recently arrived Proto-Indo-European settlers, and the trait spread quickly through sexual selection into Scandinavia. As above, the theory assumes that men found women with blonde hair more attractive.[19] That low levels of eumelanin be somehow associated with an Indo-European speaking population group in particular is questionable because of the time lines proposed for the mutation and as one of the places with the highest occurences of blond genes happens to be Finland, a country notable for a Uralic majority language.

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Crasher said:

Black hair is a dominant genetic characteristic, like brown eyes. It usually wins.

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Prisoner#1 said:

Crasher said:

Black hair is a dominant genetic characteristic, like brown eyes. It usually wins.

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I have brown eyes, my ex has brown eyes, everyone in my family has
brown eyes, everyone in her family has brown eyes... my daughter
has blue eyes... you dont happen to have blue eyes do you?

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Of course.
I've got blue eyes, my wife has blue eyes, all our parents have either blue or green.

Both my kids have blue eyes.

NewbieShroomie said:

Everyone in my family has dark hair and brown eyes.  I popped out blonde hair blue eyes.    I thought I was adopted until I saw my birth certificate.

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double check it,they can be forged lol

its to do with expanding the genetic pool for survival,some people do and some people dont

niteowl said:

Atheist said:

my guess is that lighter hair types came from lack of sun after we went north out of Africa

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I have thought about that too
But China and Russia are virtually side by side

Why didn't the Chinese develop different hair colors

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Prisoner#1 said:

Crasher said:

Black hair is a dominant genetic characteristic, like brown eyes. It usually wins.

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I have brown eyes, my ex has brown eyes, everyone in my family has
brown eyes, everyone in her family has brown eyes... my daughter
has blue eyes... you dont happen to have blue eyes do you?

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