Cavemen Preferred Blondes

Discussion in 'Politics' started by jzlucas, Mar 6, 2006.

  1. March 2, 2006 -- Back in the ice age, Northern European cavemen got all the chicks.

    Thanks to a food shortage and a man shortage about 10,000 years ago, men were in such demand they had their pick of mates.

    With so much competition among women to find a mate, nature and evolution kicked in to give some cave women a distinctive look to attract the opposite sex: blond hair and blue eyes.

    So says a new study published in the British science journal Evolution and Human Behavior.


    Are Blondes Mutants?

    The study's author, Canadian anthropologist Peter Frost, concludes that although blond hair and blue eyes started as a genetic mutation, men were pulled in by the golden locks and baby blues, thus populating the area with blond and blue-eyed children.

    While the rest of the world has predominantly brown hair and brown eyes, Northern Europeans have the greatest variety of hair and eye color found anywhere, and Frost believes it resulted from the sexual appeal of these traits.

    "When an individual is faced with potential mates of equal value, it will tend to select the one that 'stands out from the crowd,' the study said.

    Still, the study admits it's unclear why the mutation happened in Europe and not elsewhere.

    The theory is backed by several other studies, including one conducted in Japan that found that the gene responsible for blond hair appeared for the first time about 11,000 years ago.


    The Grass Is Always Greener

    Though a caveman bachelor may have had no problem finding a date for Saturday night, his existence was far from ideal.

    According to the study, men of the time were forced to go on long hunting expeditions over vast areas to find their prey.

    With no means to preserve food for the journey, an unforgiving ecosystem and the risks presented by the hunt itself, some men never made it back.
     
  2. FredBloggs

    FredBloggs Guest

    well i have blonde hair and blue eyes and the bitchez DIG me!!!!!

    mutant or no mutant, im happy!!!


    cumon bitchezzzzz get some of freddie!!!
     
  3. "Europeans" have the most varied skin, eye , and hair color; because "Europeans" have mixed with foreign races more. Many of these peoples were driven west out of Asia; then they were raped by Romans, Arabs, Huns/Mongols, Turks, Slavs, etc. Physical traits variation caused thus by forced mixing not by natural selection.

    The English also gave the world Piltdown Man--a skeleton made by English scientists and buried; these scientists then claimed the first man was an Englishman, lol. Evidently, English scientists still like a good scam.
     
  4. Fred, between this and your Bush Nazi thread, you're on fire today!
     
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  6. BSAM

    BSAM

    Wonder if they preferred Geico insurance in those days?
     
  7. (Start accent) Stick with the small talk, theatrics might come across as a bit.... cheesy. (End accent)
     
  8. Who doesn't like free pie and chips ...... ?

    Its pie ....... and chips ....... for free !!

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  9. BSAM

    BSAM

    His ancestors preferred women with green hair.
     
  10. LOL! Props to Geico's advertising division! Good stuff! One of the few companies whose commercials I enjoy. The older ones are great too!
     
    #10     Mar 6, 2006