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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

61 posted on 09/22/2017 2:32:20 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: Rushmore Rocks

Well, one of your ancestors was an Eskimo..................


62 posted on 09/22/2017 2:33:24 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: trisham

Wiyh a little bit of Klingon as I do like gagh!


63 posted on 09/22/2017 2:34:32 PM PDT by SandRat ( VICTORIES THAT CNABE HAD O)
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To: Red Badger

I’m a mutant.


64 posted on 09/22/2017 2:36:27 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: SandRat

My paternal grandmother claimed that there was a wee bit of Welsh in her background as well. I need to take the test. Who knows what’s lurking back there in my DNA?


65 posted on 09/22/2017 2:36:40 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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To: KyCats
Genetic engineering by whom or what?

My eyes are gray so I don't know where that puts me. My three children have/had clear blue eyes whereas their father's were hazel.

My Jewish girlfriend had beautiful blue eyes whereas I'm sure her mother and brother's were brown, don't remember about her father. Their recent ancestry was from the Black Sea region in Russia if I've got that right. I have no known Jewish ancestors.

My only sibling, a sister, has distinctly blue eyes as did my mother.

Tsar Nicholas II had blue eyes; was curious so I looked it up the other day and share no known ancestry with him. He was also 5'7".

Now my daughter had ancestry run a dna study, don't know how accurate it is; I wouldn't have done it but hers would reflect mine. It was all Western European: German, French, English, Scottish, Scandinavian (possibly from marauders, no known from the physical region), Spain or Castile.

66 posted on 09/22/2017 2:36:49 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: Red Badger

what a beauty.


67 posted on 09/22/2017 2:37:30 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: Red Badger
Wait, wait .. don't tell me.

Was it Yakub, the mad scientist who created White people?

68 posted on 09/22/2017 2:40:11 PM PDT by x
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To: zerosix
I learned long ago that blue eyes are recessive and must be carried by both parents. Same with the blonde gene. And red hair like mine was I think.
69 posted on 09/22/2017 2:40:53 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: fieldmarshaldj
We all got one brown eye.

Some of 'em bleach theirs nowadays, so they say.

Brighten the outlook, or inlook, something like that.

70 posted on 09/22/2017 2:41:13 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Red Badger

Sinatra?


71 posted on 09/22/2017 2:41:18 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked ouokt of office, it is WAR!)
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To: blueunicorn6

There is NO WAY you posted that unless we are long lost kin!!!

That was my last post!!!!


72 posted on 09/22/2017 2:42:47 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked ouokt of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Red Badger

DONT DATE women with those colored eyes and especially with red hair!!!

They devour your soul!!!

Or at least drive you to the brink of insanity :)


73 posted on 09/22/2017 2:43:47 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked ouokt of office, it is WAR!)
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To: SandRat

A+ as my 3 children. Jewish girlfriend was O-. Don’t know about others.


74 posted on 09/22/2017 2:43:51 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: Red Badger

God doesn’t make mistakes.


75 posted on 09/22/2017 2:43:56 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: trisham

Yoi do know what Klingon gagh is don’t you.


76 posted on 09/22/2017 2:44:19 PM PDT by SandRat ( VICTORIES THAT CNABE HAD O)
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To: CJ Wolf

what up, my nizzle?


77 posted on 09/22/2017 2:47:16 PM PDT by bagster
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To: blueunicorn6

Gosh.

I didn’t know Frank Sinatra was that old.

You mean I’m related to Frank?


78 posted on 09/22/2017 2:48:06 PM PDT by Davy Crocket
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To: backwoods-engineer

Who’s your daddy?

My daddy had blue eyes also..


79 posted on 09/22/2017 2:49:26 PM PDT by Davy Crocket
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To: upchuck

It wasn’t a mistake.
It was an update!....................


80 posted on 09/22/2017 2:49:26 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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