Those Blue-Eyed Mutants

 Posted by on 19 February 2008 at 5:10 pm  Science
Feb 192008
 

Cool: “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.”

The full article has more details.

Update: Thanks to Freddy, I fixed the link so that it doesn’t ask you to print the page.

   
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