Posted on 03/06/2006 8:33:53 AM PST by presidio9
Eskimos live almost exclusively on meat; the hunters are almost exclusively men; Eskimos are dark-haired.
You can get enough vitamin D from livers, especially carnivore livers, to poison yourself.
How about blond hair arose in people who were plant-eaters, limited in how much meat they could get, and needed to make their own vitamin D?
Mrs VS
But not for the high level of testosterone in the male of our species, we would have gone extinct eons ago. So with that in mind, why would these early northern European males have taken their pick when they could have taken the whole pack? It's just the nature of the male of our species.
Seems to me that this is proof of intelligent design more than evolution.
Asian hair is a completely different phsyical type than Caucasian. Its physically impossible for it to be blonde or red because it has pith. It is also a different cross-sectional shape which prevents it from naturally curling or being wavy - Asian hair is circular, Caucasian hair is somewhat bean shaped.
It hasn't but a slight correction...women BLEACH their hair blonde. Dye is for darker colors. :)
Pam Anderson certainly was - although I don't know the name of her plastic surgeon.
Shalom.
Actually, this particular article is either evidence of:
A terrible attempt to make a complex theory consumable by a mass audience or
A really stupid theory.
The way it is written up wouldn't get past an 8-year-old. But this is not from a scientific journal, so it is nothing to judge from.
Shalom.
But did these mutants have any clue as to WHY they were preferred?!
This statement is so completely scientifically irresponsible that there's no reason to read past it.
I need my sarcasm tags.
That's my point - I'm sure they DID take the whole pack - just blondes first!
When did that happen?
"If evolution happens as theorized, it is random accidental mutation that happened to be more helpful - NEVER a "design decision" to "create something" or change something...into something else."
In the 60's, my Comparative Anatomy prof derided the concept of an organism evolving to accomplish a specific purpose and called it "teleological reasoning". These days it seems to be accepted as a commonplace occurence (which makes evolution as the sole means of devolopment more conceivable).
Because the mutants had stars upon thars?
/Star-Bellied Sneetch reference
Must have been one hell of a mutation, since it affected hair color, hair shape, eye color, eye shape, skin color, skin response to sunlight, blood type (rh- is from these same northern regions).
Peter Frost, a Canadian anthropologist and author of the study, published under the aegis of St Andrews University in Fife, said hair colour became popular as a result of the "pressures of sexual selection on early European women."
Which doesn't explain why similar stresses didn't produce varying hari color among the Eskimos and Lapps and Siberians and Ainu.
Human hair and eye colour is unusually diverse in northern and eastern Europe ... [and their] origin over a short span of evolutionary time indicate some kind of selection. Sexual selection is particularly indicated because it is known to favour colour traits," he said.
Since we Northern Europeans are already diverse, why are our countries being flooded by tan skinned dark haired people in the name of "diversity", when what they really bring once fully integrated into our genetic pool is an overwhelming sameness?
But while blondes may have had more fun at the dawn of time, researchers at City University in London last year found that modern men responded more positively to pictures of brunettes and redheaded women than to their blonde counterparts.
Are the modern men being interviewed fellow light haired blondes, reds, and browns, in other words, Europeans, or do they include some of the swarthy Muslim and African hordes who have been brought into Europe, and who would be expected to prefer dark hair colors?
Do what I do. Carry them on a chain around your neck at all times.
I think they need to do a follow-up study on the development of women flirting and flipping their hair back for effect.
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