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would you say this sexual selection was steppe-derived male mediated, since they dominated a large chunk of europe from that time on? if yes, then why does blondism seem to correlate so much with I1? I1, as far as we know, was not originally a steppe haplogroup, but it seems to have not been an...

i dont think natural selection is enough to explain it's increase in frequency during the bronze age for 2 reasons: 1. happened too fast and natural selection works more slowly as far as i understand 2. blonde hair does not largely increase the vitamin D intake. you get enough of that through...

sorry if the question is stupid. i come recently from a debate with some guy claiming that blondism in europe stemmed from Scandinavian hunter gatherers, who spread throughout europe along with the group I1. he speculated that blondism spread either before the steppe invasion or during the...