They call him Cheddar Man. He lived more than 10,000 years ago, had brown hair, blue eyes and “dark to black” skin. To the surprise of many, he is believed to have been the first modern Briton.

His genes told them that while this man ... to hair and skin colour, but to a much lesser extent. In 2008, Sturm and colleagues mapped different genes associated with blue and brown eyes.

Blue-eyed people have been living in Europe for at least 7,000 years, scientists have discovered. A man who lived on the ... skin pigmentation and dark or brown hair,” they wrote.

The remains of the infant, discovered in Italy, revealed details about his physiology, including dark skin, curly dark brown or nearly black hair ... blue-eyed individual was the Villabruna man ...

They had dark skin and most of them had pale colored eyes, either blue or green, and dark brown hair.' 'Cheddar Man subverts people's expectations ... all deposited over a short period of 100-200 ...

In most cases, you’d have blue eyes and hair somewhere on the spectrum of blond to brown or red hair with brown, hazel or green eyes. According to an article by evolutionary biology professor ...