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People With Blue Eyes Share a Single Common Ancestor
People With Blue Eyes Share a Single Common Ancestor
Continue reading the Original Blog PostNew research shows that blue eyes in people originated between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago with one single common ancestor.
Originally, it was boring, brown-eyed-only world out there for early humans, said Professor Hans Eiberg from the University of Copenhagen Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. Blue eyes started with a mutation that affected the OCA2 gene, the gene that controls the "P protein" that controls the melanin that give color to our eyes, hair and skin.
The mutation was...