What nationality has Blondes?

Scandinavian regions such as Finland, Sweden and Norway. North Eastern Slavic regions also have the blond hair and blue eyes in their genetics, countries such as Poland, Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.

How is blonde hair inherited?

The blond allele is recessive, and gets covered up. In the same way, features created by recessive alleles only show up if there isn’t a dominant allele around. Since you have two copies of each gene, that means the only way to have a recessive feature like blond hair is for both of them to be the recessive allele.

Can blonde hair be a dominant gene?

So all in all the answer to your question is neither! Blonde hair, brown hair, blue eye, browns eyes … none of those traits are dominant or recessive as they are not due to a single gene.

Where does blond hair originate from?

Blond hair originated during the last Ice Age, some 11,000 years ago Sep 24, 2016 Ian Harvey Blond hair is most commonly associated with the peoples of Northern Europe. However, blond hair can also be found in communities in Asia, Africa, and Oceania.

What percentage of the world has blonde hair?

A girl with light blonde hair Source:By Work for hire taken by a family photographer – [email protected], CC BY-SA 3.0, Blond hair is most often associated with Northern Europe and is not as common in other parts of the world. It is estimated that around two percent of the world’s population are fair-haired.

Why do Blondes have blond hair and blue eyes?

Frost explains that at the end of the last Ice Age, there was an environment of fierce competition among the females of the northern European regions for suitable male partners, as males were comparatively scarce during that time. The blond hair and blue eyes made these women stand out and made sexual selection easier for them.

Did blonde hair evolve because of sexual selection?

Interestingly, Aboriginal tribes have evolved blonde hair in females independently of the Nordic blonde. 3 As this has occurred in an environment not lacking UVB this suggests that sexual selection has been more important than the forces of natural selection.