What is the most common eye color in Sweden?
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What is the most common eye color in Sweden?
Most Swedes have blue or grey eyes, and usually blonde, or light brown hair. Most brown-eyed Swedes tend to claim that they have a Walloon ancestor, but this is not always the case, as many Swedes have Sami (the indigenous population of northern Scandinavia), Turkish (Ottoman) or Romani ancestry.
Why did blondes evolve?
Blond hair originated through genetic necessity at a time when there was a shortage of both food and males, leading to a high ratio of women competing for smaller numbers of potential partners, according to the study published this week in the academic journal, Evolution and Human Behaviour.
What is the least common hair color?
Red hair
Red hair has the highest amounts of pheomelanin, around 67\%, and usually low levels of eumelanin. At 1–2\% of the west Eurasian population, it is the least common hair color in the world.
Why did so many Germans have blond hair and blue eyes?
Many Germans did have blond hair and blue eyes, but of course not all. It all depended on which area of the country you came from. Hitler obviously thought that this was to be the superior race.
Why do some people have blonde hair and blue eyes?
Perhaps the most plausible theory is that blonde hair and blue eyes arose because of a mechanism called sex selection. This is where males and females choose as their mates those who have one unusual physical characteristic, not necessarily associated with “fitness” per se but simply something unusual.
Where did the blue-eyed people come from?
Scientists conclude that this blue-eyed family spread out from an area north of the Black Sea following the last ice age.
Why did Neanderthals have blonde hair and blue eyes?
The trouble with this theory is that there is no evidence, from the scraps of Neanderthal DNA that have been recovered from bones, that there was any substantial interbreeding between them and Homo sapiens at all. Perhaps the most plausible theory is that blonde hair and blue eyes arose because of a mechanism called sex selection.