RSSI guess anything is possible, but the odds of similar arc-shaped plateaus at the geographical center of four continents, and evidence of ancient blond-haired people being found in the same location seems way too unlikely to be a coincedence of nature.
Here is a short YouTube video showing satellite images of the four locations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ0NnwfsuMQ
Razib, Thanks for the post. I quoted some of your information in a book I just published. It may offer a plausible explaination for the blond genes in Australia, especially in central Australia.
I was originally researching four unusual arc-shaped plateaus I had located in satellite imagery at the geographical centers of Asia, Australia, Africa, and N. America when I stumbled on the fact that 5000-year old blond mummies had been discovered at Urumqi, China (the geo-center of Asia). This made me wonder if there were any occurances of blond Aboriginals in Australia, and that is when I found your posting with the amazing high percentage of blondes concentrated near the geographical center. I then went on to find a blond native Indian population discovered in 1804 at the exact geo-center of America. Too bizarre to be a coincedence.
If interested in learning more details, you can use the “search inside” feature at Amazon to read random pages of the book. Just search “Alan Moen” in Amazon and you’ll find it.