Dark-skinned and blue eyes

[James]

The DNA of a hunter-gatherer who lived in Spain some 7,000 years ago suggests that Europeans were dark-skinned until much more recently than previously thought, researchers said Sunday.

Genetic material recovered from a tooth of La Brana 1, an ancient man whose skeleton was dug up in a deep cave system in Spain in 2006, revealed a strange combination of dark skin and blue eyes, according to a study in the journal Nature.

Europeans from the Mesolithic Period between 10,000...read more here: Dark-skinned and blue eyes

 

[KofDelight]

So what made them turn white?....sunscreen!

 

[Tom]

So what made them turn white?....sunscreen!

Aliens.... :wtf:

 

[Stunt]

The lack of strong sunlight and the excessive cold in the North.

 

[The Voice]

Blue eyes is a mutation, anyway. So yeah, aliens.

 

[Wenzdayz]

So what does this mean that all white people living in africa will eventually revert back to our prehistoric selves? Ie with dark skin etc?

 

[Tsar]

The DNA of a hunter-gatherer who lived in Spain some 7,000 years ago suggests that Europeans were dark-skinned until much more recently than previously thought, researchers said Sunday.

Genetic material recovered from a tooth of La Brana 1, an ancient man whose skeleton was dug up in a deep cave system in Spain in 2006, revealed a strange combination of dark skin and blue eyes, according to a study in the journal Nature.

Europeans from the Mesolithic Period between 10,000...read more here: Dark-skinned and blue eyes

But wasn't spain also inhabited by people from north africa?

 

[Edelweiss]

So what does this mean that all white people living in africa will eventually revert back to our prehistoric selves? Ie with dark skin etc?

Nope. Life isn't that cut-throat anymore, so no selection. Also social constructs.

 

[Stunt]

So what does this mean that all white people living in africa will eventually revert back to our prehistoric selves? Ie with dark skin etc?

As Edelweiss says, but still this was after millions of years, not a few hundred - so no.

@Tsar, and Portugal. The Moors went ballistic, that's where their darker tone was introduced.

 

[Glordit]

Blue eyes is a mutation, anyway. So yeah, aliens.

Not entirely(speaking under correction here but I am positive this is true somewhat) blue is less absorbent to light than a darker colour. Also why people wear sunglasses in extremely cold climates, as snow reflects almost +70% sunlight/UV back again causing snow blindness.

***EDIT
Photokeratitis is the condition if the iris is exposed to too much UV light.

 

[Stunt]

Not entirely, your eye colour can change to blue if you spend too much time in a snow glare, hence why people wear sunglasses in extremely cold climates, as snow reflects almost +70% sunlight back again.

Yup, but it's definitely got something to do with cold weather, same as pale skin. 99% of Estonia has blue eyes, 75% of Germany etc. etc. But seeing a shortage of melanin causing light to follow a rayleigh scattering path as a mutation is wrong. There's nothing mutant about blue eyes apart from our eyes being a lot more light sensitive due to the lack of the dark melanin pigmentation.

 

[The Voice]

Yup, but it's definitely got something to do with cold weather, same as pale skin. 99% of Estonia has blue eyes, 75% of Germany etc. etc. But seeing a shortage of melanin causing light to follow a rayleigh scattering path as a mutation is wrong. There's nothing mutant about blue eyes apart from our eyes being a lot more light sensitive due to the lack of the dark melanin pigmentation.

Those stats can't be accurate re: Germany, surely? A large portion of their population is now made up of immigrants, mainly Turkish.

 

[Stunt]

Those stats can't be accurate re: Germany, surely? A large portion of their population is now made up of immigrants, mainly Turkish.

Study from 5 years ago:

Wikilink - Search for Germany.

The Jewish population (darker skinned) are also known for carrying the Blue Eye trait, it has some dominance to it.