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This is super cool, but I have noticed blue eyes and hair, as that gene was extremely rare at that time, what kind of referees have you used? And one more thin
by NiceWayToDoIT 6y ago
This is super cool, but I have noticed blue eyes and hair, as that gene was extremely rare at that time, what kind of referees have you used?
And one more thing I want to add, each time I see coloring of WW1 or WW2 or this one, suddenly that history becomes not so distant and those people do not look so technologically backward. On that note somehow war atrocities in my mind become unreal...
- ogogmad 6y agoAccording to one Quora answer [1], 10% of Italians have naturally blond hair and 30% of them have blue eyes. I don't see why Italians at that time should look much different to Italians today. [1] - https://www.quora.com/Are-blonde-hair-and-blue-eyes-quite-common-in-Italy https://www.quora.com/Are-blonde-hair-and-blue-eyes-quite-co...
- bmn__ 6y agoBecause it's historically ignorant? IANA ethnographer, but I expect that until the collapse of antiquity/migration period, only a vanishingly small part of the population did not share the most prevalent phænotype (dark hair etc.) in the cis-alpine part of the peninsula. I distinctly remember from school that blonde natural hair wigs were a prized possession among Latin female nobility because it was so rare to see and so difficult to obtain because of distance.
- jaclaz 6y agoMaybe because in the several centuries in between some exchanges (mixed marriages) with the rest of Europe, including the northern countries where blue eyes and blond hair is more common took place?
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