Blue-eyed humans have a single, common ancestor

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Blue-eyed humans have a single, common ancestor

Unread post by Istik » Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:12 pm

New research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye colour of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today.
“Originally, we all had brown eyes”, said Professor Eiberg from the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology. “But a genetic mutation affecting the OCA2 gene in our chromosomes resulted in the creation of a “switch”, which literally “turned off” the ability to produce brown eyes


http://www.physorg.com/news120933651.html
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Unread post by Parrot » Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:19 pm

Yea they all look like me...
Bow down before the Blue Eyed gods, the rest of you are mongrol mutts, who's sole purpose is the serve and entertain us gods..

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Unread post by Toucan » Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:13 pm

so blue eyed people are all inbred?

bring on the eugenics i say!

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Unread post by Molten Prominence » Thu Feb 07, 2008 2:25 pm

Parrot wrote:Yea they all look like me...
Bow down before the Blue Eyed gods, the rest of you are mongrol mutts, who's sole purpose is the serve and entertain us gods..


You Mutated freak!!!

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Unread post by Molten Prominence » Thu Feb 07, 2008 2:31 pm

My eyes are I guess hazel but they constantly change colors...usually depending on what im wearing (I think)

Sometimes they get really whacked out and are yellow and green with orange tinted in them.

Its definitly cool cause the girly girls love them. :D

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Unread post by Iakimo » Thu Feb 07, 2008 5:08 pm

Molten Prominence wrote:My eyes are I guess hazel but they constantly change colors...usually depending on what im wearing (I think)

Sometimes they get really whacked out and are yellow and green with orange tinted in them.

Its definitly cool cause the girly girls love them. :D

You sure that's not a side effect of the booze? You ARE talking about the irises, not the whites of your eyes, right?
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