Northener
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I may have expressed myself badly. I didn't mean that you generalized ANE being blonde, I meant that the variant in that individual is probably not the same variant causing blonde hair in Europe today. There are several different variants and I think it's likely that they emerged in Europe without a necessary link with ANE. Many Siberian peoples have A LOT of ANE ancestry and do not have light eyes or light hair. Udmurt is one of the exceptions.
I know this map and I think it expresses ANE ancestry very well (also common in Native Americans and various Siberian groups. ) The further west of Siberia the more likely you are to find light eyes and hair, for me this would imply a selection in the mix between EHG + ANE if you want to guess, but as I said before: there are different variants in different regions.
I started with:
The complication is that whole Europe is a mix and features can also have multiple sources.
But there is also some plain common sense at stake, because when EEF is the source for some blondism someone has to explain me how on earth this would be possibly with skin type I and II (the people with red and blond hair) in an original Med farmers population, with this kind of UV rates in summer:
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That means in no time raw meat for skin type I (no tan) as type II (miserable tan)!
So please explain how this is possibly, so I certainly don't rule anything out, but it has to make sense....