About 5–10% of people from Melanesia, a group of islands northeast of Australia, have naturally blonde hair — the highest prevalence outside Europe. Yet people from the region have the darkest ...

The team took samples from a pool of Melanesian participants, 43 with blonde ... blonde hair is a surprisingly unusual trait in humans which is typically associated with people from Scandinavian ...

The team took samples from a pool of Melanesian participants, 43 with blonde ... blonde hair is a surprisingly unusual trait in humans which is typically associated with people from Scandinavian ...

For several years, blond hair was attributed to Caucasians but the Melanesians of Solomon Islands are one of the few groups with blonde hair outside Europe. Melanesian people of Solomon Islands ...

Melanesian Blond Hair Is Caused by an Amino Acid Change in TYRP1 ... “This whole area seems to have been populated by very small groups of people making it across these stepping-stone islands, so you ...

The people of Melanesia have dark skin like those from the African diaspora, but they also have blonde hair which provides a reason for some to vehemently argue (rather ignorantly, some would add ...

Although the indigenous Melanesian population ... “Naturally blond hair is a surprisingly unusual trait in humans which is typically associated with people from Scandinavian and Northern ...

When Sean Myles worked as post-doctoral student in Carlos Bustamante’s lab, he showed Bustamante a photo of a Melanesian child with cocoa-colored skin and bright blond hair, wearing a U.S ...

Pay a visit to Melanesia's Solomon Islands, 1800 kilometers northeast of Australia, and you'll notice a striking contrast: about 10% of the dark-skinned islanders sport bright blond afros. Hypotheses ...

Residents of the Solomon Islands in the Pacific have some of the darkest skin seen outside of Africa. They also have the highest occurrence of blond hair seen in any population outside of Europe.