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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: livius

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.


101 posted on 09/22/2017 3:02:57 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
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

102 posted on 09/22/2017 3:04:17 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Red Badger
"Lucy, is that you?"


103 posted on 09/22/2017 3:04:42 PM PDT by moovova
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104 posted on 09/22/2017 3:05:23 PM PDT by Rio (Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
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To: Red Badger

Call me Daddy!

105 posted on 09/22/2017 3:07:17 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Did voting for Trump for President, make 62+ million of us into Deplorable Racists/Nazis? NO! NADA!)
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To: Red Badger

Don’t go there! g


106 posted on 09/22/2017 3:08:02 PM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Red Badger

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

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


107 posted on 09/22/2017 3:08:21 PM PDT by pcottraux ( depthsofpentecost.com)
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108 posted on 09/22/2017 3:11:47 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: EEGator

No, Genghis Khan.


109 posted on 09/22/2017 3:13:57 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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Too bad only people with brown eyes and brown hair are people of color, otherwise these blue eyed people could be consideref diverse


110 posted on 09/22/2017 3:16:41 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: kevao

Cain...or was it McCain?


111 posted on 09/22/2017 3:20:13 PM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: livius

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.


112 posted on 09/22/2017 3:20:16 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: livius

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.


113 posted on 09/22/2017 3:22:10 PM PDT by usmom
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To: Red Badger

Adam.


114 posted on 09/22/2017 3:22:26 PM PDT by GodAndCountryFirst
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To: Drew68
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...

115 posted on 09/22/2017 3:25:07 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: Red Badger

inbreeds


116 posted on 09/22/2017 3:31:58 PM PDT by Paradox (Don't call them mainstream, there is nothing mainstream about the MSM.)
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To: Red Badger

Shem, Ham or Japheth?


117 posted on 09/22/2017 3:35:44 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: FoxInSocks

118 posted on 09/22/2017 3:37:29 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Drew68

Whoa. Not guilty.

Who is that ?


119 posted on 09/22/2017 3:43:13 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: Red Badger

at least 9 year old “news”:

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


120 posted on 09/22/2017 3:50:29 PM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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