If East Asians Developed Epicanthic Folds To Adapt To Snow Blindness, Then Why Didn’t Northern Europeans Develop The Same Trait?

Question

I’ve read that East Asians developed slanted eyes or Epicanthic Folds as a way to adapt to snow blindness in the more snowy and colder regions of Asia, and I was wondering why Northern Europeans, specifically Germanic and Nordic people that lived in the colder regions of Northern Europe, didn’t develop the same genetic trait or at least something similar to it.

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Answer 1

Epicanthic Folds exist in populations in southern Africa, Europe and Asia. These places have very different climates. The current theories lean toward this being due to sexual selection because there does not appear to be any direct benefit of one eye type over another.