He actually has them as very dark(not in total numbers, but in comparison). The 70% light eye colour doesn't mean much when Hungarians also have 65.14% and Bulgarians have 55.44%.
He actually has Hungarians blonder than South Germans(15.25% vs 15.09% for males, no comment). Overall The Blade's results indicate European pigmentation as pretty homogenous and with little difference between ethnic groups(there are older studies that share his total numbers, but not in comparison to other nations, I haven't seen one that has all Europeans this close in number, especially regarding specific ethnic groups, for example an old Bulgarian study that has Bulgarians around what Blade has in light eye colour, has Norwegians as 98% light eyed, and Japanese 9%), as is phenotype(such as Hallstatt, Corded, Keltid Nordids, Tronder, Anglo-Saxon, Brunn, Phalian and Borreby being common in Portugal, again, no comment). I'm guessing Poland will wind up being blonder or as blonde as Germany, but I won't be peer reviewing that as I'm still peer reviewing Blade's Swedish and Estonian samples, which is taking a long time, people can decide whether his other numbers are accurate if they want to or not based on that.
Coon literally called Fehmarn Islanders among the darkest non-southern Germans, because of a higher number of paleolithic survivors, and anything Coon says belongs in the garbage can anyway.
Did you even read the book?
Also, it's rather amusing you go onto say these numbers are exaggerated and then praise Coon's book, while Coon(and all older anthropologists, some even had Germany as majority blonde) had Germany as a whole double blonde what Blade has(which is wrong, Blade's Germany male number is similar to mine, at around 20%)
@Blade Not sure why you're using the outdated Fst method to show genetic distance. It uses too few SNPs(only 3,500 in this case) versus over 100k for conventional methods. Could've just posted the PCA plot on that Wiki page. For example, South Germans are not genetically closer to Latvians than they are to Poles or Swedes like that fst chart says. It's only showing that because Latvians have some very recent German admixture. Similarly, Fst will show a closer relation between Spaniards and Mexicans, when Mexicans are actually genetically closer to every single other European group than Mexicans. You need something that uses more SNPs.
This PCA is much more accurate:
or something like G25 or K36 is even better(although not from an actual paper like the former):
Also, I know the N sizes will be too low to be relevant, but do you have region specific(like Mecklenburg) results saved?
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