Cheryl

J.J. says:

@follers
I think you’re a little confused, the area that blue eyes, blonde hair and fair skin originated is a very debatable topic, one could say it was in the Caucasus, one could say northern india (Indo-Aryan), one could say Scandinavia. I have heard of the theory that blue eyes is a genetic mutation which occurred 6-10,000 years ago around the black sea region with only a single person meaning every person with light eyes has a common ancestor, which doesn’t particularly make sense to me as wherever blue eyes originated would have also been the origin of blonde hair and fair skin and since they’re a recessive trait how could they have spread so vastly with only one ancestor, by the 6th generation the light eyes would have disappeared along with the hair. so it’s safe to say it would have had to have been a tribe of people that possessed these features which started in either northern india, the Caucasus or Scandinavia who just spread out. how the genetic mutation first occurred is another debatable matter, could be the food that was eaten, could be climate adaptation and evolution, or it could be the theory of white people being the descendants of albino’s as the genes that fail to produce pigment in the hair, eyes and skin in white people are similar to the ones that fail to produce pigment in albino’s. as for your comment “the reason why British people have blue eyes is that they mixed up with foreigners, not the other way around”, I highly doubt that is the case because if Europe was not first inhabited by blonde haired and blue eyed peoples and was first occupied by dark featured humans and merely invaded by them, their light features would have been bred out as it’s a recessive gene. the best assumption with white people is that once upon a time the first white people had extremely pale skin with deep blue/violet eyes and platinum blonde hair who occupied land from india to the middle east to north Africa and to Europe, however through racial mixing and invasions in asia and north Africa, the white people in those regions now mostly possess darker features while most regions in Europe still obtain light features however finding the purest of pure white person with deep blue/violet eyes, platinum hair and extremely fair skin is quite rare even in europe and probably only able to be found in the Nordic countries. the average European today possesses light brown/very dark blonde hair and misty/pale blue eyes which has occurred from obviously very mild mixing throughout most of Europe and it’s obvious which areas of Europe has had significant invasions from other continents and possess darker features e.g. southern Europe. light features in general are becoming increasingly rare as they’re a recessive trait and will eventually be completely bred out.

as for a British women possessing dark brown eyes, I have seen many british with dark brown hair and/or brown eyes but it’s usually light brown eyes like hazel. dark brown eyes amongst british is hardly common from someone of a long british bloodline, obviously she’d have some sort of dark featured ancestry that she’s unaware about and has carried along in her gene pool.