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Why Do Inuits Not Have Blue Eyes? The Reason for Blue Eyes (Part 2)

Why do Inuit and other indigenous peoples of the Arctic region not have blue eyes? In my last video on the origins and reason for blue eyes, I detail how the countries with the largest blue-eyed populations are in northern Europe, and I argue that one of the main drivers of this was probably the lack of light in the winter months that meant that blue eyes were selected for over time due to them being more sensitive to light. I will link that video above for anyone who hasn’t seen it where I go into more detail.

Now my theory on low light is a working one and there was probably more than one variable involved in blue eyes developing, with Europe also having a long tradition of blues eyes going back to at least the Western Hunter Gatherers. There is a problem however. Now a few people in the comments in the my last video mentioned this and I myself thought of it but I didn’t have time to fully address it. If blue eyes developed in part due to low light conditions, why do Inuit and related peoples who live extremely far north, in the Arctic and subarctic regions of the globe, in places such as Greenland, Arctic Canada, Alaska and northern Russia, all tend to have darker eyes? Now I should quickly mention that some of these peoples do have lighter eyes, but most do not.

After all, in places that far north, there is even less light than parts of northern Europe in the winter time, to the point of the sun not rising at all for months at a time. In Utqiagvik in Alaska for instance, which is the northernmost community in the United States, sitting 330 mi (530 km) north of the Arctic Circle, they have 67 days of continuous darkness between November 18 and January 23. On the flip side as well, they have around 80 days of uninterrupted daylight during the summer. It is home to the Iñupiat people.

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