Glaucope
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Glaucope is a noun meaning (anthropology, genetics, dated) A person with dark hair and blue eyes.
Meaning
(anthropology, genetics, dated) A person with dark hair and blue eyes.
Example Sentences
On this basis various genotypes may be listed as follows: EEHH - Fast dark, EEHh - Medium dark with a cyanope stage, EeHH - Medium dark with a glaucope state, EdHh - Slow dark with intermediate stage variable.
The most numerous in each war period had blue or grey eyes and dark hair (" glaucope ") but the percentage of such types fell from 47 to 40 per cent between the two samples, while those with fair hair and light eyes (" blond ") rose from 16 to 19 per cent.
The cyanope type (brown eyes, blond hair) and the glaucope type (blue eyes, black hair) probably arose independently as mutations, the glaucope being earlier in the European population, i.e., the mutation to blue eyes probably occurred before the mutation to fair hair.
Word Forms
- glaucopes
Related Words
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