FACINATING ! BLACK SKIN, BLUE EYES AND BLONDE HAIR

The Melanesian (Africans) of Solomon Islands: The World's Only Black Blondes

I recently went to get some items at a supermaket at night, and an interesting event occured.
While checking my items at the counter, a voice from behind said, '' hey miss, your money just dropped''. I immediately turned around, got my money from the floor and rose to say thank you to the good samaritan behind for not picking my money and was greeted by an amazing sight. There he stood, tall , dark with piercing blue eyes. I was somehow scared at first , but braced myself.

While wondering if the gentle man in question wore contact lenses, some mega curious chick approached him and asked if his eyes were fake or real, and he responded saying he was born with bright blue eyes which has earned him loads of attention. He immediately turned an instant celeb in the supermaket with everyone hauling questions at him.
I got curious and decided to google. Are there really blacks born with natural blue eyes? Why didn't I have it  (Sad face), and guess what I found? Indeed there are. I also discovered some blacks were also born with amazing blonde hair wow!



In many scientific studies and a more recent one conducted by the Copenhagen University the genetic mystery of "blue eyes" is said to have originated from the northeast coast of the Black Sea.
 According to scientists the blue eyes could only be attributed to genetic mutation or Waardenburg syndrome (WS),which is a rare (1/40,000) disease characterized by sensorineural deafness in association with pigmentary anomalies and defects of neural-crest-derived tissues. 
According to a team of researchers from Copenhagen University, a single mutation which arose as recently as 6-10,000 years ago was responsible for all the blue-eyed people alive on
earth today.
The team, whose research is published in the journal Human Genetics, identified a single mutation in a gene called OCA2, which arose by chance somewhere around the northwest coasts of the Black Sea in one single individual, about 8,000 years ago.
However,it is also a historical truth the Africans colonized Europe over 10,000 years ago and they were inf fact the first homo sapiens to cross Europe to Asia and south pacific. Could it also be that some blacks with blue eyes may have gotten blue eyes from  their ancient  African ancestors and whites that inter-bred during Africa`s colonization of Europe? This question has become more relevant as some few children born of both African/100% black parents possesses "blue eyes."






With regards the blonde hair found among blacks , below is what I found.
Melanesia is a subregion of Oceania extending from the western end of the Pacific Ocean to the Arafura Sea, and eastward to Fiji. The region comprises the countries of Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Fiji and Papua New Guinea; besides these independent countries.
Some recent studies suggest that all humans outside of Africa have inherited some genes from Neanderthals, and that Melanesians are the only known modern humans whose prehistoric ancestors interbred with the Denisova hominin, sharing 4%–6% of their genome with this ancient cousin of the Neanderthal.
Blonde hair is exceptionally rare outside Europe, but evolved independently in Melanesia where Melanesians of some islands (along with some Australian aborigines) are one of the few non-European peoples to have blond hair. This has been traced to an allele of TYRP1 unique to these people, and is not the same gene that causes blond hair in Europe.
Many assumed the blond hair of Melanesia was the result of gene flow  — a trait passed on by European explorers, traders and others who visited in the preceding centuries. The islanders themselves give several possible explanations for its presence, said co-senior author Sean Myles, PhD, a former Stanford postdoctoral scholar who is now an assistant professor at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. They generally chalked it up to sun exposure, or a diet rich in fish, he said.