stackyFACTSEuropeans love to claim a monopoly on natural blondes, but the trait evolved completely independently in the Melanesian populations of Oceania. It turns out nature just randomly decided to hand out golden highlights via an entirely different genetic mutation just to keep things visually interesting.
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