You + Your Man Both Have Blue Eyes? You're Related, Says Science!

Your Tango ^ | March 8, 2015 | Nicole Weaver

[Gumdrop]

How about if only one of your parents had blue eyes? My Mother had blue eyes, and my paternal grandmother had blue eyes. Does that mean the my parents were related?

This is a silly thread. Being ‘related’ means more than having a common ancestor. By this article everyone on earth is related to one another. The use of the word “related” is over used in this case.

[SaraJohnson]

I dated a man with one blue eye and one brown eye. It was so awesome.

[Pharmboy]

Of course, ALL humans are related; the last common ancestor of all of us (at this point, but new data can change the estimates) was perhaps 200,000 years ago. When new traits arise and can be dated with reasonable accuracy--like blue eyes here about 10,000 years ago--it narrows down the 'relatives' that the group has and brings them closer.

For example, my Y-chromosome is a subtype of Rib2 that traces to Ireland around 1,600 years ago, so I am 'related' to all other men with that subtype. There are about one million of us, and while we are related, it's not close, but closer than 10,000 years ago.

[cpdiii]

And how about the brown eyed parents of that blue eyed child aren’t they also descendents of that first blue eyed person? Makes no sense.

If both parents have the blue gene and the brown gene there is a 1 in 4 chance of a blue eyed child even if both parents have brown eyes. If the father has only the brown genes and the mother has the blue and brown gene and the child has blue eyes, you need to call a lawyer. It "aint" yours>

[JimRed]

A blue-eyed red headed Neanderthal? Or a dark-haired Celt, or a blonde Viking? Cool!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I know some blond hair blue eyed Cherokees in Oklahoma.

[Tailback]

I remember reading a portion of that book I think. Wasn’t it he that said at one point there were as few as 40,000 humans on Earth?

[Gen.Blather]

“Wasn’t it he that said at one point there were as few as 40,000 humans on Earth?”

I think he gave a range of a couple of thousand to under 50k.

[Balding_Eagle]

Just a guess, but I’d say the blue eyes are the GMO.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

So, where do hazel eyes come in or green, or Grey eyes? What mutations are these?

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Not sure about gray eyes (though I think they’re just a variant of blue) but I’ve read that hazel eyes occur when you have one blue-eyed gene and one brown-eyed gene. Brown is dominant, blue is recessive. To have BLUE eyes you have to have the blue recessive on both sides. OTOH, people with brown eyes can carry that recessive blue gene, because the dominant gene can mask the recessive. So, as I understand it: blue/blue = blue, brown/blue = brown or hazel, brown/brown = brown.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

My father had brown eyes, my mother had green eyes.
My sister has green eyes, but I have gray eyes.....
so I’ve always wanted to know ‘what the?’, too. :-)

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I’ve read that green or hazel eyes are a result of one brown, one blue gene. If your dad had a blue recessive gene along with the brown, that could combine with your mom’s Bb (brown + blue) to result in a number of combinations.

[SunkenCiv]

from the FRchives:

• Europeans descended from three ancient tribes [2014]
• Europeans drawn from three ancient 'tribes' [2014]
• Europeans drawn from three 'tribes' [2014]
• Europeans drawn from three 'tribes' [2014]
• European Hunter-Gatherers, Blue Eyes and Dark Skin? [2014]
• Is this the first man with blue eyes? [2014]
• Eye Color Explained: Everything you know is wrong [2009]
• Genetic mutation makes those brown eyes blue [2008]
• Scientist: All Blue-Eyed People Are Related [2008]
• Blue-eyed humans have a single, common ancestor [2008]
• No Single Gene For Eye Color, Researchers Prove [2007]
• Blue-eyed men prefer blue-eyed women: researchers [2006]

and from the "Tinfoiled Again" category:

• Nuts to brown-eyed visionaries [2009]
• Blue Eyed Greed? (mega-barf) [2009]
• Brazil's Leader Blames White People For Crisis [2009]
• Father, 3 sons charged in attack on motorist (R.O.P.) [2008]
• Postal Service to immortalize 'Ol' Blue Eyes' - Frank Sinatra (to be issued next spring) [2007]

[SunkenCiv]

No, you said that belief in the Bible and this discussion were mutually exclusive.

[SunkenCiv]

There’s nothing polemical about it.

[ifinnegan]

I agree with you. Polemic was not the right term.

Sillily sensationalist would be more apt.

[Pharmboy]

The Neanderthals were long gone by the time blue eyes developed.