[blam]

"I think a double count of red cones in the retina is part of the "package" as is the elimination of blue cones. THat way you can see a small fire many miles across the ice in the darkest of night."

Does that mean they would have dark eyes?

[muawiyah]

No, the rods and cones are in the retina. They don't affect the eye color, which is in the iris.

Technical error ~ big time ~ they got a guy suffering from scurvy. However, they've been out there eating seal after seal after seal.

Seal skin is full of vitamin C. They'd been chowing down on something better than oranges.

Another technical error ~ these people living at the edge of the ice for tens of centuries probably had the same adaptation so many Sa'ami appear to have ~ the body does not, when chilled, protect core heat. It lets your blood keep flowing to your arms and legs to save your life. So, the guy who fell in the ice would not have gone unconscious in that water so fast. His arms and legs would not have numbed up and quit working.

He'd simply dogpaddled to the breathing hole he fell in and they'd pull him out.

He's got about 4 hours to live before he has to get warm and dry BTW. Ordinary white people only have a half hour or so.