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From: Rebekah <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Brown eyes
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 13:24:07 -0500
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Maybe those 50 people, distinct haplotypes, who left the refuge to
repopulate Europe did all have blue eyes and the the browns are slowly
inching their way back to total dominance. <Only half joking>

Rebekah

Ken Nordtvedt wrote:
> Evolutionary biologist theorists can dream up, especially after the
> fact, a host of possible selection pressures, and I think I have read
> many if not most of them concerning the eye color. But what then makes
> me wonder is why these alleged selection pressures only prevailed in
> northern Europe? As far as I can tell the only place in the world that
> the blue eye thing came to high frequency was the swath of northern
> Europe from the Atlantic to somewhere in Russia. There's lots more
> temperate and sub-arctic zone peoples on earth.
> Ken

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