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Because their skin is so thin, “the cartilaginous and osseous structure of the face is often clearly discernible beneath it”. Living in rural Minnesota I’ve developed sort of a Nor-Dar to detect people that look like my family and one tell is that they have exposed facial musclespic.twitter.com/hKVTMku9or
The stereotype we associate with Scandinavians is blondness; this is rooted in truth but goes a bit too far. Norwegians and Danes are blonder than say, Germans, but much less than Finns and Latvians. So now the obvious Jerry Seinfeld question: “What’s the deal with blond hair!?
Blond girls are purty, they’re so purty that people should wonder why all North Europeans (South Euros have to worry about the sun damaging light skin) don’t have Targaryen hair: shouldn’t through sexual selection they decimate the competition?
The major clue here is provided by the Irish, who are just as white as Scandinavians and yet dramatically less blond.pic.twitter.com/esUzZIKDAA
L-DOPA stimulates ACTH, which darkens hair and dopamine helps to account for both Irish wildnesss and the “Black Irish” lookhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOaAngNB1u0&t=1m0s …
I’ve argued before that because of higher Vitamin D stores the Irish have a greater inborn resistance to schizophrenia. When schiz is less of a problem, the result is that interesting, psychotic dark haired men sexually outcompete blond dullards.pic.twitter.com/OrHRzsH5MD
What I’m contending here is that if Schizophrenia didn’t exist, then the result would be that North Europeans would evolved to have white skin and raven dark hair of the king seen in ultra-charismatic Lotharios like Elvis (who was about half Scottish himself.)
I should mention for a second that the Irish also drift in an African direction in the great thickness of their skin.pic.twitter.com/sDwybO9RAz
I think a lot about how popular idioms about the body and personality might be reflecting something real ("thin skinned"), that part of the psychological toughness of the Blacks/Irish might be apparent in their skin.
Norwegians are dullards by any reasonable standard, but for their small population they’ve produced more recognizable creatives than the more numerous Swedes: Grieg, Munch (seen here), Knausgaard. Blonds are dull.pic.twitter.com/SfqhKCVOvj
Because schizophrenia is associated with low IQ, it is not a surprise than Finns are both the smartest and blondest people in Europe. And while I don’t know any personally, I would predict that the world’s most boring man is probably a Finn.
One last note: part of the reason people don't know that Scnados are bad at producing facial hair is that Vikings universally wore beards (they shaved them when they converted). This is a great clue as to how they're changed so dramatically in the last millenium.
Schizophrenia barely exists in rural populations like the Amish and before about 500 A.D. there don't seem to have been any serious cities in Scandinavian at all. The distinctive nordic personality probably is of very recent vintage and this leads to the really big point:
Finns and Swedes have high schizophrenia rates RIGHT NOW. We always think of evolution as something that happened in the past, but Nordics are getting duller, smarter, and blonder with every incoming generation. YOU CAN'T STOP WHAT'S COMING!
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