Evo and Proud

Peter Frost's anthropology blog, with special reference to sexual selection and the evolution of skin, hair, and eye pigmentation

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Tuesday, January 23, 2024

My wish list for 2024: Hormonal inputs into perception of human skin color by men and women

Subjects identify the face on the left as female and the face on the right as male. The only difference is the lightness of the skin. Rich...

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

My wish list for research in 2024: Why does estrogen make my brown eyes blue? Sex linkage of hair and eye colors

Eye colors (R.A. Sturm, University of Queensland) Estrogen seems to favor the expression of non-black hair and non-brown eyes during fet...

Monday, January 8, 2024

My wish list for research in 2024: Recent cognitive evolution in West Africa

Drainage basin of the Niger River (Wikicommons - Wizardist) Social complexity was more advanced, and cognitive demands higher, in West...

Thursday, January 4, 2024

My wish list for research in 2024: 1. Genetic pacification in Western Europe from late medieval to early modern times

Men fighting with daggers and a sword (Wikicommons) The State consolidates its power by monopolizing the use of violence. To this end, it wi...

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Peter Frost: Anthropologist. I've published mainly on sexual dimorphism in human skin color and on the evolutionary origin of European hair and eye colors.

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