This latest piece of news from the world of science is unbelievable! It will interest anyone who has blue eyes or knows someone with blue eyes. Professor Hans Eiberg from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark made an astounding discovery in his study.
Do You Have Blue Eyes? You Won’t Believe This Study!
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Amazing
On 23rd February 2016
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Blue eyes are something special. While most light-skinned babies are born with blue eyes, the color gradually changes over the course of their lives.
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That's why people talk about "baby blue" eyes. 90% of the world population has brown eyes. But 7,000 years ago, 100% were brown-eyed. Then the first blue-eyed child was born in Spain - his eyes were blue due to a mutation of the OCA2 gene. This gene mutation spread across Europe within the course of several thousand years thanks to population migration and a huge expansion of the gene pool. Any person born today with blue eyes is a semi-direct descendant of this first blue-eyed person. That means that all people with blue eyes are somehow very distantly related. It sounds impossible, but the research proved it!
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Today, the majority of people with blue eyes also have light hair, light skin, and are found in Northern Europe. However, there are also people with blue eyes who are born with darker skin and hair.
Every human eye is actually blue. Any other colors that appear are due to the presence of the substance melanin, which is responsible for our eye, hair, and skin color. The less melanin there is in the cells of the iris, the lighter the eyes are. Therefore, blue eyes are actually the result of a person having very few colored iris cells.
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Bizarre, right? Even though there are still many more people with brown eyes out there, these findings are fascinating. It means that if you have blue eyes, somewhere back in your family tree is a Spaniard who lived more than 7,000 years ago. That's so long ago that his descendants had time to spread across the entire planet.
