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Re:The Ainu, Japan’s Indigenous People by foobar_ on Sunday May 24, 2020 @01:47PM (#23293181)
I doubt it. Blondness is evolved for colder climates, that means the northern europe. Eastern europe has some slav influence so they might be blonde. This is the same reason why polar bears are white and other bears are brown or black. Southern europe has the mediterranean climate and so does turkey, isreal, lebanon and morocco.

Being a black person in snow would attract predators and they would die so people with lighter skins who could camouflage easily in the background would survive.

Re:The Ainu, Japan’s Indigenous People by toasterlovin on Monday May 25, 2020 @10:05AM (#23301222)
FWIW, nobody actually knows why fair hair and complexions evolved. There are various hypotheses which sound more or less plausible, but that’s all they are. This is not a settled question by any measure.