Szekessy Vilmos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 60. (Budapest 1968)

Dezső, Gy.: The frequency of eye and hair colours in some Hungarian populations

in pigment precede the pigment-poor groups. A certain difference is discernible between the boys and the girls per the investigated area, but the combined material still reveals that there is no essential sexual differnce in eye-colours. A test was accordingly made, resulting in j£?

51 =0.3938 P> 0.95'; the detailed data are given in Table 1. Hair colour: brown and blackish-brown hues are the most frequent in all samples. The proportions of the two are different for all investigated areas. The nationwide average shows the predominance of brown, followed by the dark blond, and at a significantly smaller rate (preponderantly below 1 per cent) the light blond. Whitish blonds occur in traces only. The occurrence per samples of red hair is varying: the nationwide mean in the boys is 1.4 per cent, in the girls 2.0 per cent. Its frequency is higher than that of the whitish — light blond hues. Concerning hair-colour, the sexual difference is significant: = 16.571 P< 0.5. This difference derives from the difference between the brown — blackish brown, more frequent in the girls. The detailed data are given in Table 2. The frequencies per group of both the eye and hair colours and the sexual differences for the combined nationwide material are shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 2. Per cent group-frequency of eye and hair colours.