Cavegirls were first blondes to have fun

London Times ^ | 2/26/06 | Roger Dobson and Abul Taher

[wagglebee]

So if "global warming" creates an ice age, blondes will thrive.

[wagglebee]

Semi-GGG ping.

[Sybeck1]

Does the drapes match the carpet?

[GSlob]

Don't they already? Must be an Ice Age, then.

[D Rider]

So if "global warming" creates an ice age, blondes will thrive.

So I am doing the right thing by driving a car with relatively poor gas mileage then? Good, it's always nice to know that your doing the right thing.

[Chi-townChief]

[Lawgvr1955]

According to the WHO study, the last natural blond is likely to be born in Finland during 2202.

Uh, yah. No junk science is too far fetched to get a WHO grant. Not only is it amazing that a genetic trait that supposedly took thousands of years to flourish is calculated to end in less than two centuries, the southsayers at WHO know the date and location.

I've get to apply for a grant.

[SandfleaCSC]

I would have thought redheads would be more prized due to their ability to scare off large predators with only their bad tempers.

[patton]

LOLOLOL

[bannie]

In any sitiation, my gray hair signals that my production date has expired.

That's good enough for me!!!

[vetvetdoug]

That's the first thing I look for when I go into a new house. An old carpet has a distinctive odor to it because of all of the spillage that has occurred on it in the past. I often wonder what it'll take to replace it with a new one.

[JLS]

Does to me too. It seems to me that blonds and fair skinned people become roughly a larger percentage of the European population the further north one goes. That might suggest that fair skin is a better adaptation in those climates than dark.

Natural selection is about what things work not what "choices" something makes. Polar bears are white because it works and brown polar bears did not survive as readily.

[dfwgator]

Bertha Butt was a blonde? Who knew?

[Polybius]

According to the study, north European women evolved blonde hair and blue eyes at the end of the Ice Age to make them stand out from their rivals at a time of fierce competition for scarce males. ...........Jilly Cooper, 69, the author, described how in her blonde youth she had “certainly got more glances. I remember when I went to Majorca when I was 20, my bum was sore from getting pinched”.

That works both ways.

My blonde, blue eyed father-in-law grew up in a Nebraska town where everybody in town was a blonde, blue eyed Danish-American, except for those who were blonde, blue eyed Norwegian-Americans. He told me that, as a teenager, he and his friends would drive an hour each way just to go to another town where they could meet...........hubba, hubba.........brunettes.

He married one too.

[Emmett McCarthy]

Why not add as to how they spent so much mental energy changing their hair color that, as a result, they've been dumb ever since? Or how the first one to get knocked up by a caveman wasn't sure the baby was really hers?

In other words, put my vote in the "It Smells Like Bullshit" column.

[the Marshal]

Paris Hilton - the Great Evolutionary Leap Forward.

I think London is putting another one over on the Bloody Wogs.

Bleedin' Wogs!

[Young Werther]

Rent "The Clan of the Cave Bear" starring Darryl Hannah! Ayla, (Hannah's role), attracts much attention due to her golden locks and willowy looks!!!

She may be the reason that the Neandrathals (sic) didn't make the cut!!!

Ayla!!!

[annie laurie]

It seems to me that blonds and fair skinned people become roughly a larger percentage of the European population the further north one goes. That might suggest that fair skin is a better adaptation in those climates than dark.

Everything I've read in the past says you're correct. Melanin protects from sunlight (specifically UV rays) but also makes the body less efficient at producing Vitamin D.

Example here: http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20041016/bob9.asp

[Trillian]

Lol.. I agree.

[festus]

But new research has found that it was cavemen who were the first to be lured by flaxen locks. According to the study, north European women evolved blonde hair and blue eyes at the end of the Ice Age to make them stand out from their rivals at a time of fierce competition for scarce males.

I'm throwing the BS flag right here on the basis that, regardless of endless pointy headed archeological babbling, this is just not knowable and depends on endless unprovable suppositions.