when did blonde haired blue eyed people come into being?

Question

when i see a program on tv dealing with pre-history all they show are dark haired dark eyed peoples. like now on tv they have something about the ice age and that is how all the people they show look. where are my people?

Answer 1

Everybody knows that there are some people who are naturally lazy and
indolent, who prefer lying around like slugs in the sun. There are other
people for who such utter uselessness and idleness is intolerable. Some
people just have to be up and doing. They get restless and bored with more
than a very little bit of "resting."

Out of the original pool of humanity a million years ago, some were lazy,
some were energetic.

The lazy and easy-going naturally stayed in the warm climates - the "Garden
of Eden," where you can lay around without getting too cold and where
coconuts fall on you for food. These people bred more of their own lazy
kind. Over the centuries and the thousands of years, these easy-going
people stayed in the easy places to survive on the earth, inbred with each
other, and produced races of easygoing, lazy people.

On the other hand, some energetic, vigorous, early humans began to move
around and migrate over the face of the planet. Some of them arrived in the
frozen, semi-arctic sections of Northern Europe.

To survive in such a bitter climate, men needed something more than the
qualities of the easy-going people of the warm tropics.

In the storms and blizzards of a brutal winter, those humans who had not
foreseen hard times, had not laid by stores for food, and had not built
themselves shelters strong enough to withstand the battering of the
northern gales, simply died and did not breed.

More importantly, selfish men could not survive in the cold North. Men had
to be ready to help each other and be fair to each other to survive in the
North.

In the warm climates, a man could survive with a minimum of foresight and
with selfish disregard of others. His shelter could be of sticks and mud.
His food supply was instantly available. He had no need for stores. He did
not suffer if he lacked planning and foresight. He needed little help from
other men.

But in the North, selfishness was a luxury man could not afford. Northern
European man had to develop foresight and planning to survive the rigors of
his environment. He had to learn to build substantial dwellings. He had to
exercise and develop abstract mental powers to think in terms of the future
not required in the tropics. Those who didn't died, and their qualities
died out with them.

A natural selection of men occurred when the energetic ones left the warm
climates where man originated, leaving the lazy ones behind.

In the North, man had to think ahead to live.

The foresighted and unselfish people of the north then bred with each other
to produce still more foresighted, resourceful and unselfish people, just
as you can breed the qualities of aggressiveness and tenaciousness into the
bulldog by inbreeding.

Over hundreds of thousands of years, being forced to think and plan ahead,
being forced to help his neighbors, the people of the North bred a race of
humans in whom the qualities of energy, thought, resourcefulness and
unselfishness were paramount.

The Northern climate thus selected and bred a race of people who had the
ability to think ahead; to think in terms of, not the concrete realities of
the present moment, but the intangible ideas and conceptions of the storms,
difficulties and conditions they would have to deal with in the future.

This was a new kind of thinking for humanity.

The blue eyes and fair skin came about as the need for excess melanin diminished, having been evolved away from the baking equatorial sun.

Answer 2

Hey! I'm watching that show too! According to Wikipedia, the blonde hair allele began to appear between 10,000 and 11,000 years ago during the last Ice Age, and occurred in Europe, particularly Scandanavia. The numbers of blonde haired, blue eyed people increased dramatically because they held a distinct sexual advantage over dark haired, brown eyed people (the Men Prefer Blondes Theory.) I suspect also that there is some relationship of the blonde hair/blue eye traits with that of melanin loss (light skin) to maximize sun exposure (and thus Vitamin D) because of the diminished sunlight in the higher latitudes.

Answer 3

well, the gene for blue eyes would of had to of been there since the beginning of human creation,,,, only since the other eye colors would dominate it,,,,,, it would take society intermingling enough so that two people passed the gene on to their child,,,, who mated with someone with the gene, and passed it on, etc etc,,,,, so your genes were there,, just under the surface,, im sure there were a few born both blue eyed and also blonde haired,,,, as matter of fact there is a Chinese tribe in the north of China, where the people are blueeyed , that tribe lived isolated for a long time, so i guess the brown or green gene didnt get into them,,,
an example of how isolated it can be, there is one female born in my family every generation, who is blue eyed,,,,, it just works out that way, so obviously we have the blue eyed gene, yet all the other 100 or more relatives dont get it,, you have to have 2 of the blue, one from dad and mom, to be blue eyed,,

Answer 4

Scandinavia dude!

Answer 5

came from the cave

Answer 6

No one can answer your question. Been asking this all my life. I gave up.

Answer 7

is it not the case that they come from Scandinavia, or is that where your ancestors come from,,whats the next step yes its a wonderful ginger

Answer 8

about 15,000 years ago

Answer 9

About 1,500 years ago.

Answer 10

genes