Posted on 02/26/2006 11:56:29 AM PST by wagglebee
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Well this would explain why I used to get run over for blondes *LOL*
Not everything is a conspiracy! Blondes will always be the best and most desired of women. Even in the Stone Age this was true apparently. I guess one could try to say something PC but that's not what I was thinking when I read the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
No habla espaniol. But I think you said, yes, you have been busy? lol
"Not everything is a conspiracy!"
Correct, since once everyone gets on the same page, the need for one goes away.
Hahha, no, I *think* (hope) I said "now we are talking" about the men's pics.
Aleutes? Inuits?
Lots of vitamin D in marine fish oils and probaly marine-mammal blubber.These people live off the sea.
You make an interesting point, but there's something you're missing. In much of Asia, the terrain is mountainous and the weather is as cold as in Europe or even more so, yet the people still have dark hair & eyes.
And Eskimos.
Their diets were high in Vitamin D from eating seafood and the animals that ate seafood too. They didn't have to change color to get enough vitamin D.
Northern Chinese are lighter than southern Chinese and the Northern Chinese are descended from the Southern Chinese.
There are many very light skinned Japanese, particularly among the higher nobility (all of whom no longer carry titles) but their families know who they are. Even Cherokee Indians have a substantial light skinned subset, as do other American Indians.
The characteristic probably arose in less than 10 generations. I doubt it will die out quickly, although modern nutrition provides more vitamin D than was readily found in the past.
Brown "polar bears" are called Grizzly bears. For the most part they drowned in the cold water. Polar bears have many more adaptations than the pigmentation of their fur.
Yeah, for reason, I like men's pics better. Two pics of the same guy, Kevin Costner. He is dreamy, isn't he? ;) Wish I had time to search the 'net for more sexy blonde guys before they become extinct! LOL!
I didn't say they can't tan ~ they can ~ the Inuit have been living in the Polar regions for only a few thousand years ~ not at all like the Sa'ami ancestors of the Europeans who've been doing that for a few tens of thousands of years.
I can show you a few of those fellers who don't tan and can't imagine tanning.
For example:
At the same time your average human population that lives South of the 30th has an hereditary fish allergy 48% of the time.
Still, the amount of vitamin D you are going to get is less than you will need. It pays to have translucent skin, even if it tans in the Summer.
I agree with many of the fine points made by the people I pinged and others particularly about the oddity that the Inuits as a group seem to violat the furhter north the lighter rule, perhaps due to their diet being high in vitamine D.
In some ways I view this article as anthropromorphizing. These humans were just on the cusp of survival their entire lives. They likely were not all that picky about what they ate nor where they spread their seed. The latter being something many woman claim has not changed to this day.
I can offer an amusing alternative hypothesis to near starving, short life expectancy cave men perferring blonds, waiting around for a blond to walk by and risking not procreating. As we all know we fair skinned people do not run as fast, particularly in sprints, as our dark skinned brethren. So perhaps blonds were just slower and caught more freqently by all males? And that would explain all the dumb blond jokes as just a misunderstanding of slow and dumb someplace a few 1000 generations back?
Yes. But back to the original thesis of the article ... I suspect the caveman preferred the blond because she was healthy and didn't have rickets, rather than that she was sexy because she was a blue-eyed blond.
I would have liked the theory to also explain blondism among Australian aborigines, who are as far from Europe as you can get.
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