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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.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=1675734&page=1
Sounds ridiculous, "men were pulled in by the golden locks and baby blues"
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.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=1675734&page=1
Sounds ridiculous, "men were pulled in by the golden locks and baby blues"