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Why do Asians and Caucasians have different eye shapes?

Our uh... "low exposure eyes" are an adaptation against snow blindness.  Anyway, the ancestors of modern Northeast Asians (Northern Chinese, Koreans, Mongols, Japanese etc.) were Siberians who trekked across the Siberian wastes hunting elk, mammoth and other large game.  Incidentally, a branch of this group trekked across the Siberian Strait and populated the Americas.These hunter bands were very small, usually less than 50 people.  So within such a small group, under such extreme environmental conditions, evolution happens very quickly and very dramatically.  This is how the "squinty eyes" evolved.  Those with large, round eyes fell to snow blindness and didn't live to have kids.  It was as simple as that.  Even today, Eskimos use devices like this to protect their eyes from the snow glare:As an aside...China, and most of East Asia, were formerly inhabited by people who looked like this:This dude is Ainu, one of the last remnants of the former inhabitants of East Asia surviving in northern Hokkaido.  He doesn't look "Japanese" or East Asian for a reason, cause he's not, at least not in the modern sense.  He has more in common with the Aboriginals of Australia.  These people are believed to have arrived in East Asia through the much less dramatic "southern route" which took them through the Middle East, India and Southeast Asia.At some point after the last Ice Age, the ancestors of modern East Asians moved in from Siberia and "displaced" (read: killed) the Ainu-type peoples of Northeast Asia.  Very little is known about this "displacement" process.  Only in Japan, due to its late colonization do some historical records survive.  The early Japanese Emperors, operating from Kyushu, most likely colonists from Korea, pushed north into Honshu and encountered the Emishi:Yes, this is indeed a screenshot from Princess Mononoke.  The protagonist is meant to be Emishi, a dying breed trying to survive the Yamato Empire's expansion from the south.It's not clear to what extent the two ethnic groups intermarried.  But the general strategy seems to have been to force the Emishi to ever less fertile lands and let nature take its course.  Hokkaido remained just out of reach, and so the Emishi/Ainu survived there into the modern era.

Do you know any good pop songs in Portuguese, German, French, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, Finnish, Estonian, Russian, Danish, Greek, Italian, Spanish, or Czech?

I will gladly share some Dutch (and Flemish) pop songs with everyone on Quora.Some of these are fairly recent songs (BLØF’s “Zoutelande” has been a chart-topping hit this year in the Netherlands and Flanders), others go back twenty, thirty or even forty years. In random order:BLØF - “Zoutelande” ft. Geike ArnaertTourist LeMC - “Horizon” ft. WallyGers Pardoel - “Ik Neem Je Mee”De Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig - “Watskeburt?!”Gorki - “Mia”The Scene - “Iedereen is van de wereld”Monza - “Van God los”Spinvis - “Bagagedrager”De Dijk – “Als ze er niet is”Stef Bos - “Papa”Boudewijn de Groot - “Avond”Raymond Van Het Groenewoud - “Twee Meisjes”Doe Maar - “32 Jaar” (Sinds 1 dag of 2)Racoon - “Oceaan”