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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

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To: Sicon

I think I remember hearing that he’d gotten into a fight over a girl..


141 posted on 09/22/2017 4:51:54 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Red Badger

Could there have been OTHER mutations at OTHER times?


142 posted on 09/22/2017 4:57:27 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Constantly doing things in opposition to human nature is insanity.)
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To: dp0622

Great minds think alike.


143 posted on 09/22/2017 5:09:13 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: livius

It’s not always as straightforward as many seem to think. Three of my four grandparents had blue eyes. Only my maternal grandfather had brown eyes. My mother has brown eyes. My father had blue eyes. My eyes are brown. So are my sister’s.


144 posted on 09/22/2017 5:19:15 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Red Badger

Ok. I have twin nieces, fraternal, one has bright blue eyes, the other dark brown eyes. Wouldn’t they both have the same ancestors?


145 posted on 09/22/2017 5:40:51 PM PDT by FrdmLvr
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To: Red Badger

Shem, Ham, or Japheth?


146 posted on 09/22/2017 5:52:40 PM PDT by Persevero (Democrats haven't been this nutty since we freed their slaves.)
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To: Jamestown1630

Correct. At 15, a fight with his friend over a girl they both liked...


147 posted on 09/22/2017 6:05:24 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: riri

tow-head not toe head


148 posted on 09/22/2017 6:07:25 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: Red Badger

Total BS, without any kind of proof.


149 posted on 09/22/2017 6:07:51 PM PDT by caver
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To: momtothree

Thank you, T! I’ve got green eyes but I was born with blue... they changed to gray around 6 months and then green around 9 months. Weird huh?

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Not really. When babies are born their melanin is not completely dispersed. In black, Asians and other dark skinned people the melanin is found usually on back and buttocks and is so concentrated it looks like bruises. with white babies there is not so much of a concentration so it is not as apparent.

It takes up to two years for the melanin dispersal to complete.


150 posted on 09/22/2017 6:16:05 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: SandRat

Scientic American did a great analysis of that some years back, just to add to the confusion!


151 posted on 09/22/2017 6:16:20 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

I say it was Japheth.


152 posted on 09/22/2017 6:19:21 PM PDT by georgiegirl (Count me covfefe in the Deplorable Basket)
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To: Rio

My eyes are green hazel with little tan spokes branching out from the iris, just like #41 in post 104. Both my parents had blue eyes.


153 posted on 09/22/2017 6:38:10 PM PDT by Ciexyz (I'm conservative & traditionalist.)
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To: Red Badger

The genetics basically determine whether you have brown eyes or other than brown eyes.

Once the gene is turned off for the brown pigmentation in the iris, the shape and construction of your eye determine whether you have blue, green, hazel, grey, violet, or some other light eye color based on how your iris refracts and reflects light.

For those whose eye color changes, ambient lighting, pupil dilation, atmospheric pressure, intraoccular pressure, hydration levels, may all affect your eye color.


154 posted on 09/22/2017 6:44:41 PM PDT by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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To: akalinin

nordic


155 posted on 09/22/2017 6:46:40 PM PDT by SandRat ( VICTORIES THAT CNABE HAD O)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA; BillyBoy; AuH2ORepublican

I’m descended from Charlemagne, my uncle says so.

He failed to realize that so is everyone else with a drop of White blood.


156 posted on 09/22/2017 7:19:53 PM PDT by Impy (The democrat party is the enemy of your family and civilization itself, forget that at your peril.)
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To: Red Badger

Are you saying they are descended from a bastard?


157 posted on 09/22/2017 7:55:47 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Winter is coming)
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To: Impy

I’ve never quite understood how it was possible that he could be the single ancestor of White folks living today.

My father got a DNA ancestry test thingie and he had me take it, so we’re waiting on the results.


158 posted on 09/22/2017 8:12:45 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Math

https://www.theguardian.com/science/commentisfree/2015/may/24/business-genetic-ancestry-charlemagne-adam-rutherford

It was just so long ago, the seed is spread

” Basically, everyone alive in the ninth century who left descendants is the ancestor of every living European today, “


159 posted on 09/22/2017 8:21:22 PM PDT by Impy (The democrat party is the enemy of your family and civilization itself, forget that at your peril.)
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To: Red Badger

Yeah, mine too as well as my mother, but my eyes are brown. Does that mean I don’t have the same ancestors as my mother? Story makes no sense.


160 posted on 09/22/2017 8:33:03 PM PDT by damper99
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