Blue eyes on the fringes of China

April 23, 2008 on 7:00 pm | Friedrich Braun | Anthropology , Genetics & Human Bio-Diversity | | Email This Post | Print this Post

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These are probably the Uighurs, a blend of Tocharians (a Nordic tribe) and Mongoloids. Nowadays, the Uighurs are Muslims.

… Sir Aurel Stein found that in the southeastern part of Sinkiang Province “fifteen percent of the population have blue eyes with wavy or curly hair. …

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