Concerning eye colours, has it been proven an indisputable fact that it is a wholly European trait? And that there is no possibility that it also occurs among (some) non-European populations, even if in much smaller frequency - without any European input, I mean?
So now Europe's got tabs on blue, green and grey eyes? Do they have tabs on cats and dogs too? Blue-, grey- and green-eyed cats and dogs occur all over the world - such eye colours amongst these species are more common in certain extreme northern regions of course (Alaskan and Siberian Huskies for instance), but even then, light-eyed dogs and cats are also found in India and other places. So why not humans as well.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The small Indian population with blue/green eyes, very likely received a genetic input from a population distinct from the early inhabitants of the sub-continent who appeared to have migrated along the coast from Africa. The input may have occured as recently as a few hundred years ago. The simplest possible explanation is presence of british population in the area during that time.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Acharya, in bio I learnt that grey and green eyes are accidents - things that went wrong during working out the phenotype of the baby.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->For the longest time I thought that Aishwariya Rai wore contact lenses - it turns out thats not true.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Aishwarya's eyes are grey: highly reflective of surrounding colours, which is why they seem green or blue at times. Interesting that that the person who wrote that statement chose to tie her eye-colour in with British 'presence', indirectly making allegations as well as racist assumptions. (Apparently they think Aishwarya Rai's light-eyes and the rest of her appearance can only be explained by assuming some 'British' ancestry. 'Dravidioids' can't have light eyes, complexion and hair otherwise, right? <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' /><!--endemo--> How dare Aish and others throw out the Order of Things by existing.)
Post 55 - Raju:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Patanjali describes Brahmins as golden- or tawny-haired (piNgala and kapisha).<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->I asked this elsewhere too. Perhaps Patanjali is merely describing old grey-haired Brahmanas whose hair went a yellowy 'golden' colour because of the sun (like my grandfather's hair did when he was very old)? Brahmanas long ago did spend a lot of time outside after all.
Young Indian and Indonesian girls' black hair also goes a brown in the sun. I knew an Indonesian girl whose locks turned a reddish-brown in summer only because of the sun, and went back to natural black every winter.
So now Europe's got tabs on blue, green and grey eyes? Do they have tabs on cats and dogs too? Blue-, grey- and green-eyed cats and dogs occur all over the world - such eye colours amongst these species are more common in certain extreme northern regions of course (Alaskan and Siberian Huskies for instance), but even then, light-eyed dogs and cats are also found in India and other places. So why not humans as well.
Stuff Acharya pasted in post 54:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The small Indian population with blue/green eyes, very likely received a genetic input from a population distinct from the early inhabitants of the sub-continent who appeared to have migrated along the coast from Africa. The input may have occured as recently as a few hundred years ago. The simplest possible explanation is presence of british population in the area during that time.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Acharya, in bio I learnt that grey and green eyes are accidents - things that went wrong during working out the phenotype of the baby.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->For the longest time I thought that Aishwariya Rai wore contact lenses - it turns out thats not true.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Aishwarya's eyes are grey: highly reflective of surrounding colours, which is why they seem green or blue at times. Interesting that that the person who wrote that statement chose to tie her eye-colour in with British 'presence', indirectly making allegations as well as racist assumptions. (Apparently they think Aishwarya Rai's light-eyes and the rest of her appearance can only be explained by assuming some 'British' ancestry. 'Dravidioids' can't have light eyes, complexion and hair otherwise, right? <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' /><!--endemo--> How dare Aish and others throw out the Order of Things by existing.)
Post 55 - Raju:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Patanjali describes Brahmins as golden- or tawny-haired (piNgala and kapisha).<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->I asked this elsewhere too. Perhaps Patanjali is merely describing old grey-haired Brahmanas whose hair went a yellowy 'golden' colour because of the sun (like my grandfather's hair did when he was very old)? Brahmanas long ago did spend a lot of time outside after all.
Young Indian and Indonesian girls' black hair also goes a brown in the sun. I knew an Indonesian girl whose locks turned a reddish-brown in summer only because of the sun, and went back to natural black every winter.