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All blue-eyed people have a single ancestor in common
www.businessinsider.com ^ | Sep. 21, 2017, 3:50 PM | Zach Williams and Jessica Orwig

Posted on 09/22/2017 1:55:00 PM PDT by Red Badger

New research shows that all blue-eyed people share a common ancestor. This person lived more than 6,000 years ago and carried a genetic mutation that has now spread across the world.

The exact cause remains to be determined but scientists do know that eye color began to change long before recorded history began. The following is a transcript of the video.

All blue-eyed people have one ancestor in common, born around 6,000-10,000 years ago. Blue eyes are caused by a gene mutation. For years, researchers had searched for it on the OCA2 gene. The OCA2 gene determines how much brown pigment is in our eyes. But what they were looking for wasn't there at all.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: blue; blueeyes; dna; eye; genetics; ggg; history; nordic
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To: Red Badger

What about us Hazel eyed people?


21 posted on 09/22/2017 2:06:52 PM PDT by SandRat ( VICTORIES THAT CNABE HAD O)
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22 posted on 09/22/2017 2:07:14 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: SandRat

I wondered the same thing. And Green eyed people!.................


23 posted on 09/22/2017 2:07:52 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Would sure put to rest the question of who his children married- everyone!


24 posted on 09/22/2017 2:08:13 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: FoxInSocks

It’s kinda rare. I’ve never met another one..................


25 posted on 09/22/2017 2:08:34 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: FoxInSocks

As did David Bowie.


26 posted on 09/22/2017 2:10:14 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: Red Badger

Interesting. I like having blue eyes.


27 posted on 09/22/2017 2:10:17 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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28 posted on 09/22/2017 2:13:07 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Some people have claimed that Rin Tin Tin is my brother.


29 posted on 09/22/2017 2:13:10 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: trisham

My grandfather had blue eyes.

Mine are brown.....8^(


30 posted on 09/22/2017 2:13:19 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: trisham
I heard its cause the children stuck a dragon glass dagger into some guys heart.

Look it up. It's history.

31 posted on 09/22/2017 2:13:59 PM PDT by bagster
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To: Red Badger

It is no accident that this article is published mainstream rather than relegated to some dusty molecular genetics journal with a worldwide readership of a few thousand, because it bolsters some twisted notion in our race charged ‘news’ environment that ‘aryan’ e.g. white features can be blamed on a single fictitious Adam and Eve breeding pair.


32 posted on 09/22/2017 2:14:03 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: gundog; FoxInSocks

33 posted on 09/22/2017 2:14:32 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Red Badger
Me to.

Just wondering was it the blue eyed dude with a brown eyed chick that gave me green eyes or just my blue eyed mom and green eyed dad?

34 posted on 09/22/2017 2:14:45 PM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: Red Badger

I guess I have a lot of new cousins!


35 posted on 09/22/2017 2:15:23 PM PDT by Andy'smom (Proud member of the basket of deplorables)
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To: bagster

Snoop is that you? Bagster is a name snoop would have on FR.

36 posted on 09/22/2017 2:18:41 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (Still a mother loving Trumper deplorable.)
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To: Red Badger

Seems to me that every genetic mutation there is had to start with one single organism somewhere along the line.


37 posted on 09/22/2017 2:19:18 PM PDT by Dr. Zzyzx
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To: Red Badger

Let’s throw blood type in there and really confuse them, I’m AB+.


38 posted on 09/22/2017 2:19:43 PM PDT by SandRat ( VICTORIES THAT CNABE HAD O)
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To: Red Badger
And why is such a peculiar race/genetics article relevant to business, since it's published by Business Insider?
39 posted on 09/22/2017 2:21:07 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: trisham

Green eyes rule. lol


40 posted on 09/22/2017 2:21:43 PM PDT by TheNext (Taxes are Hate !)
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