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Every blue-eyed person can be traced back to a shared ancestor.The first pair of blue eyes appeared between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago as a result of a mutation in the OCA2 gene, which caused a reduction of melanin in one lucky human's iris. A team of researchers analyzed 800 modern-day blue-eyed folk, from Northern Europe to the Middle East, and found that each individual shared a carbon copy of this particular mutated DNA segment.
"We can conclude that all blue-eyed individuals are linked to the same ancestor," said geneticist Hans Eiberg. "They have all inherited the same switch at exactly the same spot in their DNA."
Imagine how much of an outcast that first blue-eyed person probably was. Keeping that in mind, the next time you see a green-haired person, don't immediately assume an attention-grabbing dye job. They could be the future.
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Sunday 14 February
By ren
Okay...so you're telling me everyone with blue eyes essentially is related?
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Sunday 14 February
By Morven
You would be surprised to know that Noah was born approximately 10,000 years ago. It is in the ancient clay tablet manuscripts from Sumeria that he was the first blue eyed, blond haired human on the planet... Does that fit the time line or what?
PS: I'm blue eyed. My great xxxxxxxxxx grandfather must have been noah. How about that...
Sunday 14 February
By ren
Okay...so you're telling me everyone with blue eyes essentially is related?
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Sunday 14 February
By ofalaska
Outcast? The first blue-eyed babe had enought cute blue-eyed baby girls to conquer the earth! The reason blue eyes exist is obviously that men found them irresistable!
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Sunday 14 February
By IRONBLUEEYES
I've noticed women like them too.
Sunday 14 February
By jani
not correct most men love brown eyes there was even a song about it "my brown eyed girl"...some of your hottest sex symbols have brown eyes...alot of blue eyes are rather dull now there are some that are piercing but most arent
Sunday 14 February
By Susan
Sounds to me that you're jealous of girl's with blue eyes Jani. And NO, I do not have blue eyes. And yes, there are songs written about brown-eyed girls, but there are just as many, if not more written about the blue-eyed ones. The reason that "some of the hottest sex symbols" as you call them have brown eyes is because brown eyes are very common while blue eyes are not. I myself have always had a preference for men with brown eyes, but blue eyes are beautiful and if I had my choice, I would much rather have blue ones. Blue eyes are beautiful.
Sunday 14 February
By ren
Okay...so you're telling me everyone with blue eyes essentially is related?
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Sunday 14 February
By Candy
the person tht wrote this is totally bs-ing and has no medical proof to bak it up. it could hav occured once, sure, but it is much more likely that the blue eyes mutation occured in many different people. but people as a whole can be linked back to 1 common ancestor, and that is a fact.
Sunday 14 February
By NANCY
Sweetheart...go back far enough and we are all related.
Sunday 14 February
By Jennifer
this has got to be horse puckey how the hell do they REALLY know when the first pair of blue eyes were?? couldve been adam or eve for all they know....
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Sunday 14 February
By The Martins
As there is no Adam or Eve, seems impossible.
Sunday 14 February
By smlls24698
That stands to reason-either Adam or Eve had blue eyes
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Thursday 23 June
By Prince
No, adam and eve were /before/ time. This was 10,000 years ago; the time of the Natufi, the first known culture of the Mediterranean.
Sunday 14 February
By Kevin
SO, The color of your eyes, (as well as other traits) ARE NOT attributed to centuries of human adaptation?
I spent a few months a the poles (both). Folks with dark colored eyes "snow blinded" very quickly. I also spent many more months in Africa. Us blue folks suffereed mildly, but dark eyed folks did not.
SORRY, we humans adapt. I fall short to say evolve; another conversation.
Eskimos and nothern clime peeps have adapted to short summers and ice/snow. EYE COLOR is a response to need!!!!!
Please think young lady. Skin color is also a climatic response.
I am a 'creationist". But we have been here 175K years. We HAVE ACCLIMATED accordingly.
R/Kev
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Sunday 14 February
By morris
your every word is bull
Sunday 14 February
By Chelsea
This seems to be a bit of an irrelevant conclusion. My mother has blue eyes and so does my brother. But my father and I both have hazel eyes. We all share the same ancestors though. You can't look at someone's eyes and say "all of you are distant, distant relatives!" I mean, we can already do this by tracing EVERY SINGLE PERSON back to a common "mitochondrial Eve". I think the people who did this study must have been the same ones who claimed that in 50 years red-haired people would be nonexistant. Interesting to think about, but there are simply too many variables to make such an assertion.
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Sunday 14 February
By Sam
So having blue eyes makes you lucky?? Does having white skin make me lucky too? People need to stop wearing their race as a damn badge!
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Sunday 14 February
By syl
Thanks Sam. I was thinking the same thing.
Sunday 14 February
By Devin
Race and eye color are totally unrelated at this point... there are people of all colors with all different color eyes. Who you are should have to do with how you act not what color your skin/eyes are. A stupid as some people may find this comparison... a cat is still a cat... they come in all different shapes, sizes, colors, with different abilities... but after all of that they are still just a cat. We are all humans and all an equal part of Gods plan. My only hope in my life time is that more people are able to see after all of our difference... We are all still Humans. If we embrace each other and grow together we can make the world a better place.