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From: "Bernd Burgey" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Red and Blonde Hair and the South Pacific
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 19:05:16 -0300
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From: "Amelia Reimer" <>
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Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: [DNA] Red and Blonde Hair and the South Pacific


> So if "Blonde and red hair are caused by environmental factors and
the lack
> of certain nutrients in the body." ... then what nutrients (or
lack
> thereof) are attributed. Be a much more permanent change than a
dye-job? ;)

UNIVERSITY OF TARTU
http://www.ut.ee/Ural/wel.html

The reasons for the arousal of the anthropological factors is not
entirely clear, nor do we know why this type of human is so common
to north-western Europe. It has be posited that the cause may be
natural selection among Nordic farmers. Researcher Valdar Parve
supposes that the original meat-eating inhabitants of
Baltofennoscandinavia differed considerably from present day
inhabitants of this area. Nutrition habits on the territory of
Baltofennoscandinavia changed considerably when a transition to
agriculture and more and more vegetarian way of nutrition took
place. The resulting deficiency in fat-soluble vitamins is believed
to be a Darwinian factor of selection. Deficiency in vitamin D and
rachitis, deficiency in vitamin K and disturbances in blood
clotting, deficiency in vitamin E and weakness of uterus
contractions - all this caused the death of young pigmented women at
childbirth. This kind of situation was favourable to individuals
with large area of light skin. Their body mass was small in relation
to the body area, allowing the access of ultraviolet radiation,
which is scarce in northern regions but forms an essential factor
for synthesizing fat-soluble vitamins from provitamins of vegetable
origin. So the key to the origination of depigmented population lies
in the change of nutrition habits.

Besides this, most of the Polynesian Islands where Brittish, Duch
and German Colonies

Regards
Bernard

> >BLONDE HAIR AMONG THE PUREST BLACKS
> >
> >Blonde hair is found among some of the purest and most isolated
Negro/Black
> >people on planet earth. This means that blonde hair is not found
only in
> >Nordics but actually originated and first came out of the
Negroid/Black
> >race.
> >Blonde hair is found among Black Melanesians, Black Tribals of
India,
> >Australian Aborigines and Blacks in parts of Africa. In fact both
blondish
> >and red hair is found among some African Blacks.
> >
> >WHAT CAUSES BLONDE/RED HAIR
> >
> >==============================


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