All Blue Eyed People May Have One Thing in Common...

So you have blue eyes, and I bet you think you're blessed right? After all, those piercing blue eyes look real good in selfies. Well, as it turns out, you could be related to every other person with blue eyes ever, very, very loosely.

According to IFLScience every blue-eyed person on the planet is descended from a single European who lived around 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. Apparently that person first developed a specific mutation that accounts for the now widespread iris coloration.

The website then went on to talk about some science stuff that we really don’t understand, but here it is cause you're probably way smarter than us anyway:

“More recently, a mutation to a separate, nearby gene called HERC2 has been identified as the cause of blue eyes. This alteration switches off OCA2, the gene that determines the amount of the brown pigment melanin that we make. It is thought to have first occurred when humans began to migrate from Africa to Europe, meaning that every person with blue eyes is a descendent of a single early European.”

So in a nut shell, the fact that every blue-eyed person alive today has this same mutation is substantial evidence for this theory, although the identity of the original blue eyed beauty remains a mystery.

Fancy that blue-eyed fella across the bar? Also have blue eyes? Don’t do it, he could be your cousin. Just kidding, he probably isn't. Well we hope not....

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