When and where did blue eyes appear? And why?

Peter Frost

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Jerome

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I have previously read that blue eyes were favored because they are a recessive trait, and therefore made fathers more certain that their wife's children were also their own. Are you unfamiliar with that idea, or do you find it too implausible to mention?

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When and where did blue eyes appear? And why?