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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Mar 16.
Published in final edited form as: Science. 2022 Aug 25;377(6609):940–951. doi: 10.1126/science.abq0755

Fig. 6: Pigmentation in West Eurasia.

Fig. 6:

We show the temporal distribution of genetically predicted Eye (A), Skin (B), and Hair (C) color in West Eurasians of the last 16,000 years; each point represents an individual, with the top row for each subphenotype corresponding to Southern Arc and the bottom row corresponding to northern, central and western Europeans and people of the Eurasian steppe. Panel (D) shows composite phenotypes of all three aspects of pigmentation using the same color scheme as A-C and denoted as eye color (circle), hair color (top), and skin color (bottom) in the composite phenotype symbols. The modal phenotype of West Eurasians had brown eyes, intermediate skin pigmentation, and brown hair, with the highest prevalence (Fisher’s exact test) of low pigmentation outside the Southern Arc (in the rest of Europe and the Eurasian steppe).