Comments by "Jack Mac" (@TheEggmaniac) on "How Did Blond Hair u0026 Blue Eyes Spread to Europe?" video.

  1. Its the same in Britain, many children have blonde or light brown hair, but when they reach adulthood, their hair can sometimes change to brown or black. Also the term 'flaxen' has been traditionally used to describe children or people with that blonde to light brown hair. I only found out recently, why 'flaxen' was used to described that. It was because when the plant flax, is harvested and processed, the long fibres have the look of that light sandy brown / blonde colour. Peoples hair was often described as looking like it. The flax industry in the UK declined rapidly from the 1950s. So most people wont even know what that means now.
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  2.  @hakanliljeberg790  Im sure the eastern vikings did travel there. The eastern Vikings, who mainly came from what is today Sweden, travelled down many of the large rivers into what is today, eastern Europe and Russia. Down to the Black Sea. Infact their descents started many of the early states in these regions. They were called the Rus and gave their name to Russia and Belarus. Though Im sure blonde hair and blue eyes, which is common in those regions, didnt just come from these vikings. Ive read that these features were already well established there, before the arrival of the vikings.
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  3.  @somedutchguy9184  I think that translates as flaxen blonde, in English.
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  4. Other animals have blues eyes, blonde hair etc, its doesn't mean that humans have inherited them from animals. Infact Im sure this mutation was not inherited from any earlier human hominds. The mutation for blue eyes has occurred separately many times in different animals including humans. Its just a lack of pigmentation or melanin in the iris. Which make the iris look blue in colour. Which may have an advantage over eyes with more melanin, in certain environments. It more likely an example of convergent evolution. Ive read it the mutation for blue eyes in modern humans may have occurred more than once in different locations.
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