hair/eye color and phenotype

[esaima]

Now the question is. Dear fellow countryman, where have you lived?

Making an introduction thread would be nice too.

Hi, Karl!Tere, Karl!
Mu ema ja tema suguvõsa on Järva- ja Lääne-Virumaalt, isa Võrumaalt, seega on mu juured mitmel pool laiali.
My mother is from Mid-Estonia, father from South-East, so my "roots" came from different part on Estonia.In our family mother and sister have brown eyes, father has green-gray, brother has gray eyes.I have green eyes myself.I have no non-Estonian roots, no Swedes, Germans, Latvians, Russians in my family.
I have seen enough brown eyes in Estonia.Of corse-blue-grey strongly dominate.I´ m really a bit confused if you say you haven´t seen brown eyes among Estonians.mhmm...
There is a book (Juhan Aul.Eestlaste anropoloogiast, välja antud millalgi 1972.v73)of an E.antropologist Juhan Aul, I try to find it, because I remember there was some eye-color statistics.

[Äike]

Now the question is. Dear fellow countryman, where have you lived?

Making an introduction thread would be nice too.

Hi, Karl!Tere, Karl!
Mu ema ja tema suguvõsa on Järva- ja Lääne-Virumaalt, isa Võrumaalt, seega on mu juured mitmel pool laiali.
My mother is from Mid-Estonia, father from South-East, so my "roots" came from different part on Estonia.In our family mother and sister have brown eyes, father has green-gray, brother has gray eyes.I have green eyes myself.I have no non-Estonian roots, no Swedes, Germans, Latvians, Russians in my family.
I have seen enough brown eyes in Estonia.Of corse-blue-grey strongly dominate.I´ m really a bit confused if you say you haven´t seen brown eyes among Estonians.mhmm...
There is a book (Juhan Aul.Eestlaste anropoloogiast, välja antud millalgi 1972.v73)of an E.antropologist Juhan Aul, I try to find it, because I remember there was some eye-color statistics.

Thanks for the introduction post. Not in the right place but good enough. A noticeable portion of Estonians have some non-Estonian blood, we have been invaded by Swedes, Danes, Germans, Poles and Russians. You can notice a pattern if you look at the genetics of Estonians. Luckily, Estonians are still majority Finnic. As I said before, every European ethnicity has people with blue, green and brown eyes. Just the fact is that the light eyed form a majority in Estonia.

Look at this map and you'll understand that finding brown eyed people here is quite difficult. You'll have more luck in Scandinavia.

[Murphy]

I've got hazel eyes, mostly light brown and pale green. I suppose some überviking must have pillaged a coastal village and raped one of my ancesters... now I need to carve out my eyes in protest towards the ethnic cleansing of my ancesters at the hands of those brutual Nordicmen!

Incidentally, my father has blue-grey eyes and my mother has dark brown.

Regards,
Eóin.

[Äike]

I´m really a bit confused if you say you haven´t seen brown eyes among Estonians.mhmm...

99% eestlastest on siniste silmadega

Taani teadlane Hans Eiberg avaldas oma uurimustöös, et 99% eestlastest on sinised silmad.

http://www.azcentral.com/ent/pop/art...eeyes0206.html

In Estonia, 99 percent of people have blue eyes, says Eiberg.

[Brännvin]

Where the Professor Eiberg made such statement?

[Äike]

Where the Professor Eiberg made such statement?

In his research

http://www.azcentral.com/ent/pop/art...eeyes0206.html

http://www.zoominfo.com/people/Eiber...255349220.aspx

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/...E=click-refer&

http://webcenters.netscape.compuserv...blueeyedpeople

Just scroll downwards and I'm too lazy to post more articles.

[Ulf]

I always knew I was some sort of cosmic super Nordic badass.

[Jarl]

Where the Professor Eiberg made such statement?

That just doesn't make any sense. Thats waaay more than Scandinavian means. I don't think any continental population has 99% blue eyes.

[Jarl]

Hi, Karl!Tere, Karl!
Mu ema ja tema suguvõsa on Järva- ja Lääne-Virumaalt, isa Võrumaalt, seega on mu juured mitmel pool laiali.
My mother is from Mid-Estonia, father from South-East, so my "roots" came from different part on Estonia.In our family mother and sister have brown eyes, father has green-gray, brother has gray eyes.I have green eyes myself.I have no non-Estonian roots, no Swedes, Germans, Latvians, Russians in my family.
I have seen enough brown eyes in Estonia.Of corse-blue-grey strongly dominate.I´ m really a bit confused if you say you haven´t seen brown eyes among Estonians.mhmm...
There is a book (Juhan Aul.Eestlaste anropoloogiast, välja antud millalgi 1972.v73)of an E.antropologist Juhan Aul, I try to find it, because I remember there was some eye-color statistics.

Coon wrote about Estonians:

surprising, since there have been a considerable mixture between Esths and Swedes, and a considerable absorption, in Esthonia, of early North Germans. The pigment character of the Esths is prevailingly blond, comparable to that of both Livs and Swedes; 56 per cent of the hair is called "fair," 43 per cent brown, and less than one per cent each are red and black. The eyes are blue in 25 per cent of cases, and gray in 51 per cent, while the brown class is said to include 13 per cent of the whole

76% blue and gray, 13% brown, 11% green/light-mixed

Lives were said to have 8% brown eyes. Estonians have considerably less brown eyes. But what distinguishes them most from other Balts, it that they also have low green and ligh-mixed eye frequency. Still though 99% blue eyes is a gross exaggeration.

[Äike]

That just doesn't make any sense. Thats waaay more than Scandinavian means. I don't think any continental population has 99% blue eyes.

Overall, Estonians are more light eyed then Scandinavians, but I doubt in the 99% blue eyes too. 98% or 97% would sound more realistic. By his words, 30 years back, Danes were 92% blue eyed.

Well, he might be right. He has made some important discoveries and has been researching the human genome for almost 40 years.