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Thread #163586   Message #3904901
Posted By: Steve Shaw
11-Feb-18 - 05:41 AM
Thread Name: BS: DARK CHEDDAR, Quite Sharp
Subject: RE: BS: DARK CHEDDAR, Quite Sharp
Unfortunately, the inheritance of eye colour is not a simple matter of single genes. It's likely that the number of genes involved runs into the teens. Yer man in Cheddar is actually fairly typical of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in Western Europe in having dark skin and pale eyes.