All blue-eyed people have a single ancestor in common

www.businessinsider.com ^ | Sep. 21, 2017, 3:50 PM | Zach Williams and Jessica Orwig

[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.

[Glad2bnuts]

I am a father of 5 their mother has brown eyes, mine are blue. My kids.... 1 brown eyed, 2 green, and 2 blue. I am going out and getting DNA testing on the Wilkos show.

[Fiji Hill]

Ma io continuo a sognare negli occhi tuoi belli
Che sono blu come un cielo trapunto di stelle

Nel blu degli occhi tuoi blu
Felice di stare quaggiù
E continuo a volare felice più in alto del sole
Ed ancora più su
Mentre il mondo pian piano scompare negli occhi tuoi blu
La tua voce è una musica dolce che suona per me

(But I keep dreaming in your beautiful eyes
They are as blue as a sky of stars

In the blue of your blue eyes
I am happy to be down here
And I keep flying happy higher than the sun
And even more
As the world slowly disappears in your blue eyes
Your voice is sweet music to me)

--from Nel Blu, Dipinto di Blu (into the blue, painted blue) by Domenico Modugno

[moovova]

"Lucy, is that you?"

[Rio]

[Grampa Dave]

Call me Daddy!

[Vinnie]

Don’t go there! g

[pcottraux]

I have blue eyes. So do both my parents. Very interesting.

Sort of glad I married a hazel-eyed girl now.

[musicman]

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[YogicCowboy]

No, Genghis Khan.

[dsrtsage]

Too bad only people with brown eyes and brown hair are people of color, otherwise these blue eyed people could be consideref diverse

[HombreSecreto]

Cain...or was it McCain?

[YogicCowboy]

Mother and brother: blue. Myself: very dark brown. A biologist once remarked that mine were unusually dark for a caucasoid.

Family lore says my mother has Semite, and my father has tribal American, in lineage. That must be it.

[usmom]

I have hazel eyes and my husband has green we have one child with light blue eyes, one with light green almost grey and one with hazel almost gold eyes.

[GodAndCountryFirst]

Adam.

[who knows what evil?]

Being the only dude with blue eyes, it was easy to score a lot of p***y.

Might explain all the girlfriends when I was younger...

[Paradox]

inbreeds

[so_real]

Shem, Ham or Japheth?

[Drew68]

[fieldmarshaldj]

Whoa. Not guilty.

Who is that ?

[catnipman]

at least 9 year old “news”:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080130170343.htm