For a while, blonde hair was thought to only belong to Caucasians, however the Melanesians of the Solomon Islands are one of the few ethnic groups outside of Europe having blonde hair.
Long before black people immigrated to the Americas as slaves, the Melanesians are a group of black islanders in the south Pacific.
The subregion of Oceania known as Melanesia stretches from the westernmost tip of the Pacific Ocean to the Arafura Sea and then eastward to Fiji. The majority of the islands to the north and north-east of Australia are included in this region, along with those belonging to Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, and New Caledonia.
Jules Dumont d’Urville coined the term Melanesia for the first time in 1832 to refer to a cultural and geographical grouping of islands that was separate from Polynesia and Micronesia.
Before to contact with Europeans, the native Melanesians engaged in cannibalism, head hunting, kidnapping, and enslavement, just like the Asmat tribe. However, the population is now primarily Christian. More over 90% live in rural areas, nonetheless.
When it comes to dark skin and blond hair, the Solomon Islands’ Melanesian population is of particular note. The Solomon Islands are a sovereign nation and part of the British Commonwealth. They are situated in the South Pacific, in the center of Melanesia, north-east of Australia, between Papua and Vanuatu.
Melanesians have a native TYRP1 gene that is completely different from Caucasians’ genes because it does not exist in theirs and contributes to their blond hair and melanin.
It is a recessive gene that is more prevalent in youngsters than in adults, and as a person ages, their hair tends to become darker.
This supports the notion that all races descended from the black African race and that black Africans were the original Homo sapiens.
