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From: Janell J <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Red and Blonde Hair and the South Pacific
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 15:07:44 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <p06100508bd18acd53b7b@[192.168.2.30]>


But their hair is the only thing non-Negrito (?) abut them. Would admixture only affect their hair? Compare them to African Americans, for example. African Americans have significant N. European ancestry. Their skin and other skeletal features exhibit evidence of admixture, but not the color of their hair (generally speaking). Furthermore, these Islanders seem to have a higher frequency of red and blonde hair than many Europeans.


- Jan

Pat Oliver <> wrote:
>Didn't we have American soldiers in the Pacific Islands during WWII ?
>
>I know that my blond haired, blue eyed husband was there.
>
>Julia
>
>In a message dated 7/12/2004 3:31:29 PM Central Daylight Time,
> writes:
>Interesting photos of fair haired children from the South Pacific:
>
>http://www.richard-seaman.com/Travel/SolomonIslands/TheSolomonIslandsAndItsPeo
>ple/FairHairedMalaitanKidWithTattoo.jpg
>
>http://pro.corbis.com/images/WK005736.jpg?size=67&uid={cfcc5245-77b6-4298-b814
>-574057e30af7}
>
>There are thousands like them, so I don't think the trait can be explained by
>Eurasian ancestry specifically. Has there been a study on this?!
>- Jan

Read the accounts of the voyages of Captain Cook from the 1700s. And
never forget the whaling ships etc of the 1800s whose crews visited
many ports in the South Pacific, so to speak. Most of these men were
from the British Isles. Other earlier and later expeditions may have
been from other countries.
--
Pat Oliver (Willis P. Oliver)


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