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From: "Ken Nordtvedt" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Were the I1a people Brown Eyed?
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 15:02:23 -0600
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Yes indeed. There is a valley in NW Pakistan, one mountain range from
Afghanistan --- Swat Valley. When I was through there in 1980s there were a
quite a few blue eyes --- not brown or hazel, but blue. The people there say
they descend from troops of Alexander the Great's army. Blue prevails in
British Isles, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, northern slavic areas, and
many other places.
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Subject: Re: [DNA] Were the I1a people Brown Eyed?


> In a message dated 9/11/04 12:04:11 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> writes:
>
> Brian, I believe dark hair is dominant, but I am not too confident about
> that. But hair coloring is a more multi-gene attribute than the basic
> blue/brown eye color alternative.
>
>
>
> The most striking eye color I've every seen were the green eyes of a woman
> with the surname Jensrude, which she said was Norwegian for Jens Farm.
However,
> the beautiful hazel eyes of a woman from Afghanistan on the cover of a1985
> National Geographic indicate light eye color is found outside of
Scandinavia.
>
> Grant
>
>
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