On blondism

Quite some time ago, I wrote this post. There's some tweaks due to more ancient DNA studies published since then (or at least that I've been made aware of since then.) It's still pretty valid, I think, although I think more samples have come in that suggest that darker skin (although nothing like that ridiculous Cheddar Man reproduction, which is nothing more than a work of globalist, anti-white propaganda.)

https://darkheritage.blogspot.com/2019/05/on-origin-of-whiteness.html

However, another hypothesis has come to my attention, which I think might fit the data a bit better. This hypothesis suggests that the alleles for blondism (and other associated "white people" traits like paler skin and fair eyes, all of which seem to travel together and come "bundled" in many cases) were probably present in several neolithic and early bronze age populations, they wouldn't have been common in any of them, including Corded Ware, Scandinavian Hunter-Gatherers, etc. This hypothesis also suggests that blondism may be a neotenous trait, and that it actually comes bundled with lactose tolerance. While lactose tolerance is often associated with the spread of the early Indo-Europeans, the reality is that many of them weren't lactose tolerant either, and through the Bronze Age, for whatever reason, lactose tolerance (and probably blondism) grew proportionally very rapidly.

In addition to the correspondance with lactose tolerance and its growth being selected for, due to some kind of selective pressure, there's a theory that blonde hair, especially in women, was seen as a desirable and beautiful trait. Historical texts, even from cultures where blonde hair doesn't seem to appear at all or very infrequently (such as Arabs from Baghdad, Romans, Greeks, even Egyptians) seem to refer to this, suggesting that blonde hair in women being seen as desirable is actually a common trait across most of the human race. That's why you see telenovelas from countries like Venezuela with blonde actresses, among a population that has almost no naturally blonde people. Because blonde women were more desireable, they were more sought after as wives, and had more children than darker women, and therefore, blondism increased during the Bronze Age due to this sexual selection. Very typical breeding bias event, which can affect the average appearance of a population much more quickly than most people realize; often over just a very few generations.

I also think that one trying to explain the origin of European blondism (as opposed to, say, Melanesian or Australian Aboriginal blondism) needs to explain the distribution of it. If it does indeed come primarily from the Corded Ware, does that suggest that Corded Ware autosomal DNA is more prevalent in Fennoscandia and the Baltic coast? That's actually not true, because Scandinavia seems to have retained a fair bit of the original Scandinavian hunter gatherer ancestry relative to much of the rest of Europe. Does that mean that the Scandinavian hunter-gatherers were among the original source of blondism? Again, I don't know, I just think that this needs to be addressed in any hypothesis for how blondism spread.

The map below shows percentage of blonds in the population. Finland is the highest, although the rest of Scandinavia isn't far behind. The original Nordic Bronze Age distribution seems to correspond highly to the highest numbers. That said, populations that had no real connection with the Nordic Bronze Age seem to often have been described as fairly blond too, so one can hardly claim that it comes from there. Possibly, something happened to the population there that selected for the trait more strongly than elsewhere so it became much more common, though. Even though it also exists in relatively high humbers elsewhere as well.