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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: dp0622

My mother had green eyes and red hair, and so does one of my sisters!....................


81 posted on 09/22/2017 2:50:19 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
I ain’t gonna be the one to break it to Snoop that the dragons ain’t real.

I'm sick of you science deniers. If we don't know our history, we are doomed to repeat it. I think the professor on Back to the Future said that, if I'm not mistaken. I'll google it.

82 posted on 09/22/2017 2:50:37 PM PDT by bagster
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To: Red Badger

Interesting idea. :)


83 posted on 09/22/2017 2:52:16 PM PDT by upchuck (The consensus that matters is one that drums up support to enact legislation into law. ~ A. McCarthy)
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To: Red Badger

Adam and Eve...See Genesis(KJV)


84 posted on 09/22/2017 2:52:21 PM PDT by US Navy Vet (Trump Train!!!)
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To: Red Badger

>>My mother had green eyes and red hair, and so does one of my sisters!.
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This sounds like a truly beautiful combination.


85 posted on 09/22/2017 2:52:37 PM PDT by Kalamata (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out - D. Horowitz)
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To: Red Badger

I don’t trust horses or dogs with two different eye colors. Don’t remember running across a human with this condition. If I did pretty sure I wouldn’t trust them either.


86 posted on 09/22/2017 2:54:11 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Not my circus. Not my monkeys.)
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To: KyCats

My research, that I’m willing to share for a price, suggests that the guy was named Eddie


87 posted on 09/22/2017 2:55:37 PM PDT by ChiefJayStrongbow
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To: mad_as_he$$

David Bowie and a famous baseball player have had two different eye colors. Scroll back up thread for pics...........


88 posted on 09/22/2017 2:56:15 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Fightin Whitey

Of course, you poke around in that brown eye too much and it’ll prolapse and turn into a pink eye.


89 posted on 09/22/2017 2:56:22 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: mrsmith

I think that it is the strangest thing, that both Bible believers and atheists are shocked at the idea that certain “races” were created before Adam.


90 posted on 09/22/2017 2:57:15 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
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To: gundog

Mila Kunis has two different color eyes.

Heterochromia.

http://www.lifeandstylemag.com/posts/mila-kunis-kate-bosworth-and-6-stars-with-different-eye-colors-49649/photos/mila-kunis-eye-color-74123#photo-anchor


91 posted on 09/22/2017 2:57:56 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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To: Red Badger

I rest my case. ;-)


92 posted on 09/22/2017 2:58:48 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Not my circus. Not my monkeys.)
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To: akalinin

And throw the kicker in there. That person just had to be ‘racis’ also.


93 posted on 09/22/2017 2:58:52 PM PDT by taterjay
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To: Red Badger

Sorry!!!!

Come to think of it, my mother does to.

Kill that theory.

And I’m sorry for your loss.


94 posted on 09/22/2017 2:58:52 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked ouokt of office, it is WAR!)
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To: KyCats

His name was Adam.


95 posted on 09/22/2017 2:59:02 PM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: Red Badger

If that is Bowies eye, then it is blind or he is brain damaged. Pupil dilation is JUST A BIT asymmetrical.


96 posted on 09/22/2017 2:59:29 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
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To: Red Badger

Why does Ziggy have a blown pupil>


97 posted on 09/22/2017 3:00:00 PM PDT by dangerdoc
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To: Red Badger

Bookmark


98 posted on 09/22/2017 3:00:39 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Red Badger

A lot of people don’t know it, but David Bowie did not actually have different colored eyes. They were both blue, but when he was young, a friend of his punched him in the left eye, and damaged the muscles that contract the pupil. The highly dilated left pupil made the iris appear brown.


99 posted on 09/22/2017 3:00:41 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Rebelbase

Somebody had to do it. LOL!


100 posted on 09/22/2017 3:02:52 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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